Noticed the bee's momentary orienting pause before heading back to the hive.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Verb (used with object) : lectures designed to orient the new students. ,to orient a building north and south. ,Orient it toward that house.    From Dictionary.com. 

Adjective : the orient sun.    From Dictionary.com. 

As long-term orienting missions, they create many problems.    From Wordnik.com.  [From a War on Terror to a World at Peace] Reference

Using the war on terror as America's long-term orienting mission, though, generates many problems.    From Wordnik.com.  [From a War on Terror to a World at Peace] Reference

The rapid movement and edits of electronic images activate a powerful but often misused brain mechanism known as the orienting response OR.    From Wordnik.com.  [Find Your Focus Zone] Reference

Elsewhere in his book, making a similar correlation between "orienting" and the success or failure of a soldier's unit, McCoy writes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chris Rodda: Petraeus Endorses "Spiritual Handbook," Betrays 21% of Our Troops] Reference

She laughed, a single sharp note, forcing her burning eyes open, struggling to bring the green glare into some kind of orienting focus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Asimov's Science Fiction]

It's called orienting in scientific circles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Printing: Distracted-- the Coming of a New Dark Age; Rob Kall Interviews author Maggie Jackson] Reference

This is called orienting a map.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts] Reference

The accelerometer had no problem orienting itself.    From Wordnik.com.  [Original Signal - Transmitting Gadgets] Reference

Example of orienting forces to speed target acquisition.    From Wordnik.com.  [FM 71-1 Chapter 2 Battle Command]

Arnolde frowned, orienting on the intellectual challenge.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roc and a Hard Place]

Then her picture paused, orienting on him with wild surmise.    From Wordnik.com.  [Xone of Contention]

"I am orienting on Ida's identity," Imbri said in a dreamlet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Faun & Games]

There was no standardized method of orienting oneself in a city.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anything You Can Do ...] Reference

Actually this was no worse than orienting on another dream world.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zombie Lover]

The swarm hung by Lynsnar, calibrating itself, orienting on the enemy.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Fire Upon the Deep]

The thing was now looming over them, orienting on its specific targets.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Spell For Chameleon]

Indeed, the huge head was lifting, and the huge near eye was orienting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Demons Don't Dream]

Overlooking this brush was an antenna, orienting unerringly on the party.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Source of Magic]

Sso-ngii stirred, and for a moment looked around as if orienting himself.    From Wordnik.com.  [Warhorse]

Our chance now lay in orienting ourselves to the left, or toward the road.    From Wordnik.com.  [Panzer Aces]

But the glaring eyes of the Gap dragon followed her, orienting on the motion.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Spell For Chameleon]

    The amphibians 'oversized heads rose up, orienting on the giant monster.    From Wordnik.com.  [Odyssey]

She did as ordered, orienting herself so she had a good view of the entire room.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mistborn] Reference

She threw the seeds out in four directions, aiming and orienting each carefully.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dragon on a Pedestal]

But now Che was orienting on particular features. "do believe she is an ogress," he said.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Color of Her Panties]

I hastily rummaged his memories of the last few weeks, orienting myself to his situation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Renegade's Magic]

He continued to expand, orienting on his reposing body in the Tapestry chamber of Castle Roogna.    From Wordnik.com.  [Faun & Games]

While they had been setting up the trap, he had been circling around, orienting on their sounds.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Spell For Chameleon]

He stopped in front of a family sitting around a fire by the side of the street, orienting himself.    From Wordnik.com.  [Crystal Rain] Reference

In itself that's no big deal but, as co-head, I'll be rather busy once that first day of orienting begins.    From Wordnik.com.  [trinityboy Diary Entry] Reference

Also, the advisory committee which is being set up can help on re-orienting the programme on all policy matters.    From Wordnik.com.  [LETTERS TO OLIVER TAMBO] Reference

But their campaigns have been organized around different orienting visions of politics and political leadership.    From Wordnik.com.  [Andrei Markovits and Jeff Weintraub: Obama and the Progressives: A Curious Paradox] Reference

We are beginning to see, I hope, what might be one helpful orienting principle in thinking about multiculturalism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Multiculturism: Friend or Foe] Reference

And in the case of future value it is a matter of orienting everyone in the organization toward longer-term horizons.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Future Is Now] Reference

In fact, I think Mr. Obama is orienting the White House to a political environment that has been in place for some time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Campaigner in Chief] Reference

The central aim was to ensure that we start re-orienting government expenditure to bring it in line with the new objectives.    From Wordnik.com.  [POLITICAL REPORT OF THE NATIONAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, TO THE 49TH NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS BY PRESIDENT NELSON MANDELA] Reference

The Government of National Unity is firmly committed to orienting our education more towards science and technology education.    From Wordnik.com.  [SPEECH BY PRESIDENT NELSON MANDELA AT THE ORT-STEP INSTITUTE GRADUATION] Reference

Levels are surveying instruments that have a telescope and means for orienting the telescope's line of sight in a horizontal plane.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 10] Reference

Levels are surveying instruments that have a telescope and means for orienting the telescope's line of sight on a horizontal plane.    From Wordnik.com.  [1.1 The role and purpose of irrigation] Reference