Usually means: Align or position relative to.
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  1. orientate: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. orientate: Merriam-Webster
  3. orientate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. orientate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. orientate: Collins English Dictionary
  6. orientate: Vocabulary.com
  7. orientate: Wordnik
  8. orientate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. orientate: Wiktionary
  10. orientate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. orientate: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Orientate, orientate: Dictionary.com
  13. orientate: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Orientate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Orientate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. orientate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. orientate: Rhymezone
  18. orientate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. orientate: FreeDictionary.org
  20. orientate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. orientate: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. orientate: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. orientate: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. orientate: A Word A Day

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Orientate: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, intransitive) To face a given direction.
verb:  (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, reflexive) To determine one's position relative to the surroundings; to orient (oneself).
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.
verb:  (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, transitive) To position (something), to align relative to a given position.
verb:  (archaic) To move or turn toward the east; to veer from the north or south toward the east.

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