orientate

Academic Word List, sublist 5.

About 0.17 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To face a given direction.
2. verb To determine one's position relative to the surroundings; to orient (oneself).

   He came out of the station and took some time to orientate himself.

3. verb To arrange in order; to dispose or place (a body) so as to show its relation to other bodies, or the relation of its parts among themselves.
4. verb To position (something), to align relative to a given position.

   Try to orientate your students towards the science subjects.

5. verb To move or turn toward the east; to veer from the north or south toward the east.

Similar words

orient guide focus steer front reorientate regard orienate face look out

Often followed by

the themselves himself their itself ourselves to and them

Word family

orient orientated orientates orientating orientation oriented orienting orients