misorientate
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Verb
[edit]misorientate (third-person singular simple present misorientates, present participle misorientating, simple past and past participle misorientated)
- (transitive) To position (something) incorrectly, especially so that it faces in the wrong direction.
- 1974, Keith Copeland, Aids for the Severely Handicapped, page 99:
- Sometimes I would misorientate slides 90 degrees or 180 degrees.
- 2004, Jenny Lawson, A+ Certificate in Computer Maintenance and Installation Level 2, page 135:
- You might misorientate the connector, i.e. connect it the wrong way round.
- 2013, R. E. Smallman, Modern Physical Metallurgy, page 253:
- Since only one dislocation is required to misorientate one crystallite from another, the structure is a network of the type shown in Figure 5.44a and b
- (intransitive) To become incorrectly positioned, especially to face in the wrong direction.
- 1973, Béla Csikós Nagy, Socialist Economic Policy, page 44:
- The price system does not signal the changes continually taking place in the value and market relations; it necessarily misorientates in matters of economic decisions.
- 1976, R. G. J. Strens, E. G. Strens, The Physics and Chemistry of Minerals and Rocks, page 81:
- Thus the sub-grains gradually misorientate until they become recognizable separate entities, i.e. small recrystallized grains.
- 1981, Nick Riddiford, Peter Findley, Seasonal Movements of Summer Migrants, page 82:
- Thus records at British observatories as far west as Stokholm, Bardsey and Calf of Man will involve mainly individuals which have misorientated, or undertaken random dispersal prior to migration.
- 1993, Thomas Alerstam, Bird Migration, page 360:
- The standard procedure for demonstrating the pigeons' sun-compass consists in 're-setting' their internal clock and finding out whether they then misorientate in the expected direction.
- (reflexive) To become confused about one's position relative to one's environment; to become disoriented.
- 2003, C. Krydz Ikwuemesi, The Triumph of a Vision, page 198:
- It is poetic justice of sorts that the church whose foreign agents and those indigenous members who chose to misorientate themselves has also given us these […]