Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

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orient

UK /ˈɔː.ɹɪ.ənt/ · US /ˈɔ.ɹi.ənt/ proper noun, noun, adjective, verb

Forms orients orienting oriented

  1. proper noun Usually preceded by the: alternative letter-case form of Orient (“a region or a part of the world to the east of a certain place; countries of Asia, the East (especially East Asia)”)
  2. noun The part of the horizon where the sun first appears in the morning; the east.
  3. noun (obsolete) A pearl originating from the Indian region, reputed to be of great brilliance; (by extension) any pearl of particular beauty and value.
  4. noun (by extension) The brilliance or colour of a high-quality pearl.
  5. adjective (dated, poetic, also figuratively) Rising, like the morning sun.
  6. adjective (dated, poetic) Of the colour of the sky at daybreak; bright in colour, from red to yellow.
  7. adjective (obsolete except poetic) Of, facing, or located in the east; eastern, oriental.
  8. adjective (obsolete except poetic) Of a pearl or other gem: of great brilliance and value; (by extension) bright, lustrous.
  9. verb (transitive) To build or place (something) so as to face eastward.
  10. verb (transitive, by extension) To align or place (a person or object) so that his, her, or its east side, north side, etc., is positioned toward the corresponding points of the compass; (specifically, surveying) to rotate (a map attached to a plane table) until the line of direction between any two of its points is parallel to the corresponding direction in nature.
  11. verb (transitive) To direct towards or point at a particular direction. “The workers oriented all the signs to face the road.”
  12. verb (transitive, reflexive) To determine which direction one is facing. “Let me just orient myself and we can be on our way.”
  13. verb (transitive, often reflexive, figuratively) To familiarize (oneself or someone) with a circumstance or situation. “Give him time to orient himself within the new hierarchy.”
  14. verb (transitive, figuratively) To set the focus of (something) so as to appeal or relate to a certain group. “We will orient our campaign to the youth who are often disinterested.”
  15. verb (intransitive) To change direction to face a certain way.
  16. proper noun Usually preceded by the: a region or a part of the world to the east of a certain place; countries of Asia, the East (especially East Asia).
  17. proper noun (dated) The countries east of the Mediterranean.
  18. proper noun A minor city in Denning Township, Franklin County, Illinois.
  19. proper noun A township and minor city therein, in Adair County, Iowa.
  20. proper noun A town in Aroostook County, Maine.

Synonyms

East Orient red aglow alight beamful beamsome beamy brilliant effulgent glowing illuminating lambent lighted lit lucent luciferous lucific luminant luminiferous luminous eastern hemisphere point orientate tailor

Antonyms

occident ponent West occidental disorient disorientate

Etymology

The noun is derived from Middle English orient, oriente, oryent, oryente, oryentte (“the east direction; eastern horizon or sky; eastern regions of the world, Asia, Orient; eastern edge of the world”), borrowed from Anglo-Norman orient, oriente, and Old French orient (“east direction; Asia, Orient”) (modern French orient), or directly from its etymon Latin oriēns (“the east; daybreak, dawn; sunrise; (participle) rising; appearing; originating”), present active participle of orior (“to get up, rise; to appear, become visible; to be born, come to exist, originate”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃er- (“to move, stir; to rise, spring”).
The adjective is derived from Middle English orient (“eastern; from Asia or the Orient; brilliant, shining (characteristic of jewels from the Orient)”), from Middle English orient (noun); see above.

The verb is derived from French orienter (“to orientate; to guide; to set to north”) from French orient (noun) (see above) + -er (suffix forming infinitives of first-conjugation verbs).

See orient.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Rising, as the sun. Moon, that now meet'st the orient sun. Milton.
  2. adjective Eastern; oriental. "The orient part." Hakluyt.
  3. noun The part of the horizon where the sun first appears in the morning; the east.
  4. noun The countries of Asia or the East. Chaucer.

Etymology [F., fr. L. oriens, -entis, p. pr. of oriri to rise. See Origin.]

Etymology [F. orienter. Cf. Orientate.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “orient”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “orient” (best matches first).