oriel | (noun) a projecting bay window corbeled or cantilevered out from a wall | Synonyms: oriel window |
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orient | (noun) the hemisphere that includes Eurasia and Africa and Australia | Synonyms: eastern hemisphere |
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(verb) adjust to a specific need or market | Synonyms: tailor |
(verb) familiarize (someone) with new surroundings or circumstances | - |
(verb) determine one's position with reference to another point | Synonyms: orientate |
(verb) be oriented | Synonyms: point |
(verb) cause to point | - |
oriental | (adjective) denoting or characteristic of countries of the Far East | - |
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(adjective) denoting or characteristic of countries of Asia; 'oriental civilization' | - |
orientalise | (verb) make oriental in character | Synonyms: orientalize |
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orientalism | (noun) the quality or customs or mannerisms characteristic of Asian civilizations | - |
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orientalist | (noun) a specialist in oriental subjects | - |
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orientalize | (verb) make oriental in character | Synonyms: orientalise |
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orientate | (verb) determine one's position with reference to another point | Synonyms: orient |
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orientated | (adjective) adjusted or located in relation to surroundings or circumstances; sometimes used in combination | Synonyms: oriented |
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orientating | (adjective) positioning with respect to a reference system or determining your bearings physically or intellectually | Synonyms: orienting |
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orientation | (noun) the act of orienting | - |
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(noun) a course introducing a new situation or environment | Synonyms: orientation course |
(noun) an integrated set of attitudes and beliefs | - |
(noun) a person's awareness of self with regard to position and time and place and personal relationships | - |
(noun) a predisposition in favor of something | Synonyms: predilection, preference |
(noun) position or alignment relative to points of the compass or other specific directions | - |
oriented | (adjective) adjusted or located in relation to surroundings or circumstances; sometimes used in combination | Synonyms: orientated |
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orienting | (adjective) positioning with respect to a reference system or determining your bearings physically or intellectually | Synonyms: orientating |
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orifice | (noun) an aperture or hole that opens into a bodily cavity | Synonyms: opening, porta |
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oriflamme | (noun) a red or orange-red flag used as a standard by early French kings | - |
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(noun) an inspiring symbol or ideal that serves as a rallying point in a struggle | - |
origami | (noun) the Japanese art of folding paper into shapes representing objects (e.g., flowers or birds) | - |
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origanum | (noun) any of various fragrant aromatic herbs of the genus Origanum used as seasonings | - |
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origin | (noun) properties attributable to your ancestry | Synonyms: descent, extraction |
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(noun) the point of intersection of coordinate axes; where the values of the coordinates are all zero | - |
(noun) an event that is a beginning; a first part or stage of subsequent events | Synonyms: inception, origination |
(noun) the hereditary derivation of an individual | Synonyms: ancestry, blood, blood line, bloodline, descent, line, line of descent, lineage, parentage, pedigree, stemma, stock |
(noun) the place where something begins, where it springs into being | Synonyms: beginning, root, rootage, source |
(noun) the source of something's existence or from which it derives or is derived | - |
original | (adjective) being or productive of something fresh and unusual; or being as first made or thought of | - |
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(adjective) (of e.g. information) not secondhand or by way of something intermediary | - |
(adjective) not derived or copied or translated from something else | - |
(adjective) preceding all others in time or being as first made or performed | - |
(noun) an original creation (i.e., an audio recording) from which copies can be made | Synonyms: master, master copy |
(noun) something that serves as a model or a basis for making copies | Synonyms: archetype, pilot |
originalism | (noun) the belief that the United States Constitution should be interpreted in the way the authors originally intended it | - |
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originality | (noun) the quality of being new and original (not derived from something else) | - |
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(noun) the ability to think and act independently | - |
originally | (adverb) in an manner suggesting originality | - |
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(adverb) with reference to the origin or beginning | Synonyms: in the beginning, primitively |
(adverb) before now | Synonyms: earlier, in the beginning, in the first place, to begin with |
originate | (verb) bring into being | Synonyms: initiate, start |
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(verb) come into existence; take on form or shape | Synonyms: arise, develop, grow, rise, spring up, uprise |
(verb) begin a trip at a certain point, as of a plane, train, bus, etc. | - |
origination | (noun) the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new | Synonyms: creation, foundation, founding, initiation, innovation, instauration, institution, introduction |
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(noun) an event that is a beginning; a first part or stage of subsequent events | Synonyms: inception, origin |
originative | (adjective) having the ability or power to create | Synonyms: creative |
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(adjective) containing seeds of later development | Synonyms: germinal, seminal |
originator | (noun) someone who creates new things | Synonyms: conceiver, mastermind |
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orinasal | (noun) a speech sound produced with both the oral and nasal passages open (as French nasal vowels) | Synonyms: orinasal phone |
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oriole | (noun) American songbird; male is black and orange or yellow | Synonyms: American oriole, New World oriole |
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(noun) mostly tropical songbird; the male is usually bright orange and black | Synonyms: Old World oriole |
orison | (noun) reverent petition to a deity | Synonyms: petition, prayer |
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