Definition of "orientate"

orientate

/ˈɒɹi.ənteɪt/

verb
third-person singular simple present orientates, present participle orientating, simple past and past participle orientated
1. (UK, Ireland, New Zealand, Australia, intransitive) To face a given direction.
2. (UK, Ireland, New Zealand, Australia, reflexive) To determine one's position relative to the surroundings; to orient (oneself).
  Quotations
  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.
  Quotations
  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. (UK, Ireland, New Zealand, Australia, transitive) To position (something), to align relative to a given position.
5. (archaic) To move or turn toward the east; to veer from the north or south toward the east.