orient

How to use orient in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for orient.

Home Featured words Jump to examples

Editorial note

This slows you down, and I find it takes me a few moments to orient myself on a new page.

Examples13

Definitions7

Parts of speech2

Quick take

the countries of Asia

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of orient gathered in one view.

noun

the countries of Asia

noun

the hemisphere that includes Eurasia and Africa and Australia

verb

be oriented; "The weather vane points North"; "the dancers toes pointed outward"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for orient.

noun

the countries of Asia

noun

the hemisphere that includes Eurasia and Africa and Australia

verb

be oriented; "The weather vane points North"; "the dancers toes pointed outward"

verb

determine one's position with reference to another point; "We had to orient ourselves in the forest"

verb

cause to point; "Orient the house towards the West"

verb

familiarize (someone) with new surroundings or circumstances; "The dean of students tries to orient the freshmen"

verb

adjust to a specific need or market; "a magazine oriented towards young people"; "tailor your needs to your surroundings"

Example sentences

This slows you down, and I find it takes me a few moments to orient myself on a new page.

We orient all graphs so lower is better, visually.

I can orient my Metro tiles how I want, and I know I can get to it within 5-6 arrow-key presses max.

" People really shouldn't orient their moral systems around money.

You go from Java's "object-orient all the things" to Scala/Clojure's "function-orient all the things".

I think it's questionable what knowing what a dollar is worth if you orient your life in a way to make as little of them as possible.

This makes it easy to get 'home' from anywhere, and, most importantly, to orient the device by feel in your hand without looking at it.

Yes. If you subdivide a solar panel into, say, 10 pieces and orient each of those 10 pieces in an orientation different from the orientation that produces the maximum power output over the course of the day for a single panel, the sum will still be less.

So I see Obama's statement as saying we should streamline that process as much as we can, and orient our education system to produce as many high-skilled workers as possible.

* Removing the fear of possible instant dismissal seems to orient employees toward long term improvement instead of maintaining status-quo.

Well, it was really, really hard to re-orient myself this way, and it took much more sacrifice than necessary, but the good news is that aside from lost time, most of the rest hopefully can be recovered.

It's also not that it's something that's disorienting or a distraction to the user - as far as I know, most users have been browsing with URLs present in their browsers since they every laid eyes on a browser.

It's good as an interface, I think, because the human also requires some startup time -- if you can see what the screen looks like before it is interactive, you can orient yourself while the machine finishes reactivating.