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Orient   /ˈɔriˌɛnt/   Listen
Orient

noun
1.
The countries of Asia.  Synonym: East.
2.
The hemisphere that includes Eurasia and Africa and Australia.  Synonym: eastern hemisphere.
verb
1.
Be oriented.  Synonym: point.  "The dancers toes pointed outward"
2.
Determine one's position with reference to another point.  Synonym: orientate.  Antonym: disorient.
3.
Cause to point.
4.
Familiarize (someone) with new surroundings or circumstances.
5.
Adjust to a specific need or market.  Synonym: tailor.  "Tailor your needs to your surroundings"



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"Orient" Quotes from Famous Books



... only called a murderer, but that he was one. He might as well be other things. No appellation could be so terrible as that first. He would take the thirty thousand dollars if it should be forthcoming, vote and take the first train west the same day. In the Orient he could lose his identity as a bribe-taker and a murderer. The torture never relaxed during the ...
— A Man of Two Countries • Alice Harriman

... may be very pleasingly extended by candying the aromatic roots of lovage, and thus raising up a rival to the candied ginger said to be imported from the Orient. If anyone likes coriander and caraway—I confess that I don't—he can sugar the seeds to make those little "comfits," the candies of our childhood which our mothers tried to make us think we liked to crunch either separately or sprinkled on our birthday cakes. ...
— Culinary Herbs: Their Cultivation Harvesting Curing and Uses • M. G. Kains

... on the ninth day of February, 1787. The Governor and Council were so much gratified with the success of the boat that they presented Mr. Fitch with a superb flag. About that time, the company, aiding Mr. Fitch, sent him to France, at the request of Mr. Vail, our consul at L'Orient, who was one of the company. But this was when France began to be agitated by the revolution, and nothing in favor of Mr. Fitch was accomplished; he therefore returned. Mr. Vail afterward presented to Mr. Fulton for examination ...
— International Weekly Miscellany Vol. I. No. 3, July 15, 1850 • Various

... exile: they have joined the band of lotus-eaters who inhabit that region of the West which is pervaded by a subtle breath from the Orient, blowing across the seas between. Mrs. Arnold has not yet made that first visit East which is said by her Californian friends to be so disillusioning, and the old home still hovers, like a beautiful ...
— In Exile and Other Stories • Mary Hallock Foote

... in the Orient, where Nature placed no special penalty on idleness. Indeed, labor may have been a curse in Asia. Morality is crystallized expediency, and both, as we are told, are matters of ...
— Little Journeys To The Homes Of Great Teachers • Elbert Hubbard


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