orienate
/ˈɔɹiɛnˌeɪt/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "He sat up amid the melting ephialtes, stared at the woman and tried to orienate himself."
- "Standing by the skeleton foundations, it is easy to orienate the old tragedy and to say with approximate accuracy, "There stood Wild Bill wher ^([sic]) the fight began;" " On this spot McCanles fell;" " There Woods stumbled to his death;" and "Yonder toward the old bridge, the doomed and wounded Gordon staggered in flight.""
- "[…] mainly to ensure they would not rest, if possible, since the bird normally comes only to land at its nest—less than two hours' flying time away, in good weather, so giving a very generous allowance of time to return home before the morning light if they were able to orienate themselves on release ."
- "We may also discern that Mary picks up something of a possible rebuke as, in her final turn, she orienate directly to this contrast between *then' and ' now' by identifying Jean and Mary as "you' - [...]"
- ""...a militant party, a revolutionary party, bold enongh to lead the proletarians to the struggle for power, with sufficient experience to be able to orienate itself in the complicated problems that arise in a revolutionary situation [...]"
- "And one must also be able to orienate himself quickly, to catch up the direction of the approaching fashions."
Etymology
Probably from an incorrectly relatinized form of orientate, from Latin oriēns (“orient”, orient- in compounds) + -ate (verb-forming suffix), or from a misspelling of the same (see the citations page). Compare oriency and orience as well as eventerate.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈɔɹiɛnˌeɪt/
Usage
Inflected Forms
orienates (present, singular)
orienating (participle, present)
orienated (participle, past)
orienated (past)