To orientate yourself is to find your bearings. When you first arrive somewhere, you need to orientate yourself to the new environment.
She was orientating herself to the new city by walking around.
He orientated himself by looking at a map.
verb
determine one's position with reference to another point
Synonyms:
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Orientalism refers to the Orient or East, in contrast to the Occident or West.
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The Eastern lowlands in the Oriente experience an equatorial climate.
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Judaism is law oriented, tradition oriented, reverent of past usages.
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But the orientation of the coil is sideways.
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It gives the orientation of the plane.
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The Japanese are the Englishmen of the Orient.
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The apse is oriented to the east.
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The family is of Puritan orientation.
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The orientation of the portal is different.
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To the Oriental, the Westerner was a devil.