orientate

“It’s an actual piece of physical feedback you can get to help orientate yourself,” says Calahan Young, who is headed to his second Paralympics with the U.S. team.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2024

"It helps me orientate myself during mock surgery and helps identify what steps and what stages are coming up next," she says.

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2023

Because they have no landmarks, I can't grab onto them — can't orientate successfully toward them — and so I could look at them forever.

From Salon ● Jun. 24, 2023

To begin the procedure, a patient dons a nasal clip that the machine uses to orientate itself.

From The Verge ● Aug. 24, 2020

The extra syllable in orientate is ugly and unnecessary, though not a federal offense.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner

The pump orientates 360 degrees, so you can place it in any case configuration.

From The Verge ● Oct. 21, 2021

The orientates, though in infinite numbers, scarcely came out but in the night, when they made every thing in the cabins seem as if in motion, from the particular noise in crawling about.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 16 by Kerr, Robert

This orientates all the elements of the understanding, as the magnet collects into regular curves the filings of a magnetic metal.

From The Psychology of Revolution by Le Bon, Gustave

S. Petronio is situated at its southern end, and orientates south by west.

From Cathedral Cities of Italy by Collins, William Wiehe

It's very much possession orientated and they'll play out from the back.

From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2025

The properties of clay and claystone crucially depend on how the tiny sediment particles are orientated.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 2, 2024

Hundreds of libraries, both traditional book-centric institutions and specific tool orientated ones, offer these services, and they're easily searchable.

From Salon ● Jun. 3, 2023

"You see families - three generations - all going together. Our fanbase is very diverse and family orientated, which is nice."

From BBC ● May 13, 2023

“We have to get orientated first,” I said.

From "Fallen Angels" by Walter Dean Myers

McGinley’s recent imagery, exhibited for the first time at the Marlborough show, is his most compositional work yet, orientating his youthful bodies in the flood of colour and light that nature provides in full bloom.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 21, 2020

Phobos was just rising in the west, and orientating herself by this tiny moon she struck out in a north-easterly direction, seeking a favorable current to carry her toward Tarog.

From The Martian Cabal by Starzl, Roman Frederick

"Christopher Mead, Assistant Undersecretary for External Affairs," the assistant said, orientating himself.

From Citadel by Dongen, H. R. van

So, orientating once more like a fragile tendril, he reached again for the banister rail, and got it.

From Aaron's Rod by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)

It therefore assists us in properly orientating ourselves to read another treatise from the greatest mathematician of antiquity that sets clearly before us his indebtedness to the mechanical applications of his subject.

From Geometrical Solutions Derived from Mechanics; a Treatise of Archimedes by Archimedes