orient

verb7

1. •
   To build or place (something) so as to face eastward.
2. •
   (figurative) 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.
3. •
   [with oneself] (figurative) To familiarize (oneself or someone) with a circumstance or situation.

   • Give him time to orient himself within the new hierarchy.
4. •
   To direct towards or point at a particular direction.

   • The workers oriented all the signs to face the road.
5. •
   To change direction to face a certain way.
6. •
   [with oneself] To determine which direction one is facing.

   • Let me just orient myself and we can be on our way.
7. •
   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.

adjective4

1. •
   Of, facing, or located in the east; eastern, oriental.
2. •
   Of a pearl or other gem: of great brilliance and value; (by extension) bright, lustrous.

   • [...] He gaue me a rope of the same Pearle, but they were blacke, and naught, yet many of them were very great, and a fewe amongst a number very orient and round, [...] — 1589
3. •
   (literary, old-fashioned) Rising, like the morning sun.

   • Moon, that now meetst the orient sun, now fli'st / With the fixt Starrs, fixt in thir Orb that flies, [...] — 1667
4. •
   (literary, old-fashioned) Of the colour of the sky at daybreak; bright in colour, from red to yellow.

noun3

1. •
   The part of the horizon where the sun first appears in the morning; the east.

   • Loe in the Orient when the gracious light, Lifts vp his burning head, each vnder eye Doth homage to his new appearing sight, [...] — 1609
2. •
   The brilliance or colour of a high-quality pearl.
3. •
   (no longer used) A pearl originating from the Indian region, reputed to be of great brilliance; (by extension) any pearl of particular beauty and value.

   • The chambers of the East are opened in every land, and the sun comes forth to sow the earth with orient pearl. — 1825

noun1

1. •
   A pear cultivar from the United States