About The Word Orient
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What's The Definition Of Orient?
[n] the hemisphere that includes Eurasia and Africa and Australia
[n] the countries of Asia [adj] (poetic) "the orient sun" [v] set or arrange in a new or different determinate position; "Orient the house towards the South" [v] determine one's position with reference to another point [v] cause to point; "Orient the house towards the West" [v] be oriented; "The weather vane points North" Synonyms | Synonyms for Orient: change orientation | East | eastern | eastern hemisphere | orientate | reorient Related Terms | Find terms related to Orient: acclimate | acclimatize | accommodate | accustom | adapt | adjust | Africa | aglow | America | Antipodes | Asia | Asia Major | Asia Minor | assess | Australasia | beaming | beamy | blushing | break | break in | bright and sunny | burning | candescent | case harden | condition | confirm | continent | domesticate | domesticize | down under | east | eastern | Eastern Hemisphere | eastland | establish | Eurasia | Europe | familiarize | Far East | fix | flushing | gentle | gleaming | gleamy | glinting | glowing | habituate | harden | housebreak | illuminant | incandescent | inure | irradiative | lamping | landmass | Levant | light as day | luciferous | lucific | luciform | luminant | luminative | luminiferous | luminificent | luminous | lustrous | Middle East | naturalize | Near East | New World | Occident | Oceania | Old World | orient the map | oriental | orientate | radiant | rutilant | rutilous | season | shining | shiny | starbright | starlike | starry | streaming | suffused | sunny | sunshiny | tame | the old country | train | West | Western Hemisphere | wont See Also | adjust | Africa | align | aline | Asia | Australia | change | decide | determine | Eurasia | Far East | guide | guide on | hemisphere | lie | line up | make up one's mind | Old World | orient | point | position | reorient | reorientate | skew Orient In Webster's Dictionary \O"ri*ent\, a. [F., fr. L. oriens, -entis, p. pr. of
oriri to rise. See {Origin}.]
1. Rising, as the sun.
Moon, that now meet'st the orient sun. --Milton.
2. Eastern; oriental. ``The orient part.'' --Hakluyt.
3. Bright; lustrous; superior; pure; perfect; pellucid; --
used of gems and also figuratively, because the most
perfect jewels are found in the East. ``Pearls round and
orient.'' --Jer. Taylor. ``Orient gems.'' --Wordsworth.
``Orient liquor in a crystal glass.'' --Milton.
\O"ri*ent\, n. 1. The part of the horizon where the sun first appears in the morning; the east. [Morn] came furrowing all the orient into gold. --Tennyson. 2. The countries of Asia or the East. --Chaucer. Best built city throughout the Orient. --Sir T. Herbert. 3. A pearl of great luster. [R.] --Carlyle. \O"ri*ent\, v. t. [F. orienter. Cf. {Orientate}.] 1. To define the position of, in relation to the orient or east; hence, to ascertain the bearings of. 2. Fig.: To correct or set right by recurring to first principles; to arrange in order; to orientate. \O"ri*ent\, v. t. 1. Same as {Orientate}, 2. 2. To place (a map or chart) so that its east side, north side, etc., lie toward the corresponding parts of the horizon; specif. (Surv.), to rotate (a map attached to a plane table) until the line of direction between any two of its points is parallel to the corresponding direction in nature. |
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