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▪ I. reˈorient, a.|riː-|
[re- 5 a.]
Rising again.
1850Tennyson In Mem. cxvi, The life re-orient out of dust. 1890F. St. John Thackeray Prudentius 93 So buried seeds repair our store Reorient from the parched earth.
▪ II. reˈorient, v.
[re- 5 a.]
1. trans. To rearrange, give a new orientation or direction to (ideas, etc.); to help (a person) to find his bearings again; to redirect (a thing).
1933Times Educ. Suppl. 25 Feb. 57/4 Russia's children are suffering in the grim struggle; but they are not having to be reborn, to reorient their whole lives. 1939Sun (Baltimore) 25 July 8/7 ‘Britain has re-Oriented her China policy.’ I don't know whether that pun was Mr. Byas' own. 1951G. Humphrey Thinking ix. 306 Psychic ‘scaffolding’, ‘hypotheses’, by which the original Aufgabe is reoriented. 1956A. H. Compton Atomic Quest 32 His [sc. Einstein's] quantum and relativity theories were reorienting physics thought. 1966D. F. Galouye Lost Perception vii. 74 ‘I feel so out of touch,..as though I've stood still for two whole years while everything passed me by.’ ‘We'll reorient you,’ Forsythe assured. 1975Nature 10 July 109/1 On day 123 the satellite was reoriented to allow the four Ariel-V experiments which view along the spin axis to observe Cyg X-1, placing it outside the field of view of this experiment. 1977D. Bennett Jigsaw Man iv. 71 I'll give you a sort of running commentary,’ she said. ‘Reorient you.’
2. a. refl. To adjust (oneself) to something; to come to terms with something; to adopt a new direction or relation.
1937Jrnl. Compar. Psychol. XXIV. 296 The animals did recognize a new situation in the tests... Many took much longer about the first jump in the test trials, and appeared to be re-orienting themselves to the whole environment. 1955M. Lowry Let. July (1967) 381 What with this eye business I have to revise entirely my method of writing and..reorient myself to it. 1962Lancet 8 Dec. 1229/2 Some will reorient themselves in their new surroundings in about three weeks, recognising their new ward as their home. 1963Economist 19 Jan. 232/2 If the railways can really re-orient themselves.
b. intr. for refl.
1960C. D. Simak in Mag. Fantasy & Science Fiction June 104 He had to reorient, he knew. He had to come to..terms..with this situation. 1974Nature 6 Sept. 16/1 The other spectra are so similar to V that Watkins also assigns them to zinc vacancies. But the V1 centres do not reorient under uniaxial stress. 1977Jrnl. Protozool. XXIV. 29/2 Some conjugating pairs subjected to antiserum treatment separate belatedly, after a partial cortical fusion has occurred and when the conjugants have reoriented into a heteropolar configuration. |