I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
London–Gatwick Express/Orient Express (= a fast train or bus which does a particular journey regularly )
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The climbers stopped to orient themselves.
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Viewers were told how to orient their satellite dishes to best receive broadcasts.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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First I checked the lone pines, by orienting them with respect to the sun.
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He has trouble orienting himself to any written work.
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Humankind needed to orient itself Continually by Signs, or by an address.
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In any case, orienting the piece on the table also takes time.
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In people, all it does is orient them toward the bottom line.
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Scheler's phenomenology was based on a metaphysical hierarchy of values orienting the human being.
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Single conspicuous targets in the half-field contralateral to the lesion could elicit fixations, implying detection and orienting by a subcortical system.
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That most men orient themselves more as subjects than as citizens is a familiar theme.
II. noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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The orient has three species of tarsiers.