orientate

[ awr-ee-uhn-teyt, -en-, ohr- ]

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verb (used with or without object),o·ri·en·tat·ed, o·ri·en·tat·ing.Chiefly British.

orient (defs. 4-12).

Origin of orientate

1840–50; <French orient(er) “to orient ” + -ate¹

Other words from orientate

re·o·ri·en·tate, verb (used with object), re·o·ri·en·tat·ed, re·o·ri·en·tat·ing.

Words Nearby orientate

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How to use orientate in a sentence

This should work in-line with your overall content strategy in either generating visibility at the top of the funnel, or answering use case questions to then direct the user journey toward your conversion-orientated pages.
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While the original goal of the Human Genome Project was to order and orientate every base pair, that couldn’t be achieved because the technology wasn’t sufficiently advanced enough.
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Despite not having an officially recognized LGBTQ student organization, the Catholic University offers groups orientated towards LGBTQ students through its Counseling Center and Campus Ministry.
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Cue a scramble from ad execs to know what Apple’s privacy-orientated zone means for their campaigns.
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It also helps pilots orientate themselves during weapons delivery passes.
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But it is necessary to orientate oneself very carefully in the East.
In Mesopotamia | Martin Swayne
I must take a new orientation, or else those wicked policemen would orientate me to a cell, a police court, and more cells.
The Road | Jack London
Inquiry at the information-desk helped her to orientate herself.
Find the Woman | Arthur Somers Roche
It took him but a moment to orientate himself, and presently rohorse and riders were headed in the direction of the highway.
A Knyght Ther Was | Robert F. Young
Exhausted by his efforts, he gained the edge of the pool at last, and stopped, trying to orientate himself.
Astounding Stories of Super-Science, May, 1930 | Various

British Dictionary definitions for orientate

orientate

/ (ˈɔːrɪɛnˌteɪt) /

verb

a variant of orient

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