orientating

Verb

orientate (third-person singular simple present orientates, present participle orientating, simple past and past participle orientated)

1. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, intransitive) To face a given direction.
2. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, reflexive) To determine one's position relative to the surroundings; to orient (oneself).
   • He[…]stood for a moment, orientating himself exactly in the light of his knowledge.1961, John le Carré, Call for the Dead
3. 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.
   • The one preferred is to make the dominant forms first order, that is, orientated in such a way as to intersect both horizontal crystallographic axes.1848, James Dwight Dana, Manual of Mineralogy
4. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, transitive) To position (something), to align relative to a given position.
   • Try to orientate your students towards the science subjects.
5. (archaic) To move or turn toward the east; to veer from the north or south toward the east.