What's the difference between orient and orientalist?
Orient
Definition:
(a.) Rising, as the sun.
(a.) Eastern; oriental.
(a.) Bright; lustrous; superior; pure; perfect; pellucid; -- used of gems and also figuratively, because the most perfect jewels are found in the East.
(n.) The part of the horizon where the sun first appears in the morning; the east.
(n.) The countries of Asia or the East.
(n.) A pearl of great luster.
(v. t.) To define the position of, in relation to the orient or east; hence, to ascertain the bearings of.
(v. t.) Fig.: To correct or set right by recurring to first principles; to arrange in order; to orientate.
Example Sentences:
(1) The predicted non-Lorentzian line shapes and widths were found to be in good agreement with experimental results, indicating that the local orientational order (called "packing" by many workers) in the bilayers of small vesicles and in multilamellar membranes is substantially the same.
(2) With respect to family environment, a history of sexual abuse was associated with perceptions that families of origin had less cohesion, more conflict, less emphasis on moral-religious matters, less emphasis on achievement, and less of an orientation towards intellectual, cultural, and recreational pursuits.
(3) Rigidly fixing the pubic symphysis stiffened the model and resulted in principal stress patterns that did not reflect trabecular density or orientations as well as those of the deformable pubic symphysis model.
(4) The response selectivity, such as orientation and direction selectivities, of cortical cells was not affected by the depletion of ACh.
(5) We have examined the initial events in myelin synthesis, including the insertion and orientation of PLP in the plasma membrane, in rat oligodendrocytes which express PLP and the other myelin-specific proteins when cultured without neurons (Dubois-Dalcq, M., T. Behar, L. Hudson, and R. A. Lazzarini.
(6) Other fusiform cells of the cPVN are oriented in a rostral-caudal plane and are situated more medially in this subdivision.
(7) During the interview process, nurse applicants frequently inquire about the availability of such a program and have been very favorably impressed when we have been able to offer them this approach to orientation.
(8) The central part of the system is the patient-orientated data bank.
(9) To alleviate these problems we developed an object-oriented user interface for the pipeline programs.
(10) Our data support the hypothesis that evoked and epileptiform magnetic fields result from intradendritic currents oriented perpendicular to the cortical surface.
(11) It’s gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, social background, and – most important of all, as far as I’m concerned – diversity of thought.” Diversity needs action beyond the Oscars | Letters Read more He may have provided the Richard Littlejohn wishlist from hell – you know the one, about the one-legged black lesbian in a hijab favoured by the politically correct – but as a Hollywood A-lister, the joke’s no longer on him.
(12) The changes are necessary to produce confident, supportive community oriented nurses.
(13) Families were randomly assigned to one of two forms of conjoint therapy: an Insight-oriented treatment (N = 10) or a Problem-Solving intervention (N = 10).
(14) Proper maintenance of body orientation was defined to be achieved if the net angular displacement of the head-and-trunk segment was zero during the flight phase of the long jump.
(15) In conjunction with the development of a computerized goal-oriented record system at Forest Hospital Des Plaines, Illinois, research staff developed a psychiatric goal list from goal statements most frequently used at the hospital.
(16) Given the liberalist context in which we live, this paper argues that an act-oriented ethics is inadequate and that only a virtue-oriented ethics enables us to recognize and resolve the new problems ahead of us in genetic manipulation.
(17) A team-oriented problem-solving procedure using management project teams was developed to improve quality of care and productivity in a private, nonprofit hospital.
(18) Orientation and lever responding were not functionally related.
(19) Circular dichroism (CD) spectra indicating different local orientation of oxazolone, when coupled to L or D side chain-terminating amino acids, support this suggestion.
(20) Economic burdens for postmarketing research should be shared jointly by the research-oriented and generic drug companies.
Orientalist
Definition:
(n.) An inhabitant of the Eastern parts of the world; an Oriental.
(n.) One versed in Eastern languages, literature, etc.; as, the Paris Congress of Orientalists.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is surely one of the intellectual catastrophes of history that an imperialist war confected by a small group of unelected US officials was waged against a devastated third world dictatorship on thoroughly ideological grounds having to do with world dominance, security control and scarce resources, but disguised for its true intent, hastened and reasoned for by orientalists who betrayed their calling as scholars.
(2) Rather as feminists had begun to talk about the "male gaze" portraying women as passive objects and demonstrating the inequality of gender relations, Said suggested that the mere fact of colonial rule must inevitably compromise the writing of even the most well-meaning of western orientalists.
(3) Nothing like a dazzling Broadway musical adaptation to reinforce troubling orientalist stereotypes, then.
(4) Without a well-organised sense that the people over there were not like "us" and didn't appreciate "our" values - the very core of traditional orientalist dogma - there would have been no war.
(5) The 300th anniversary of the birthday of Johann Heinrich Schulze gives rise to the remembrance of life and work of a polyhistorian who is riveted by particular attainments in medicine and several other special branches (orientalistics, graecistics, archaeology, numismatics).
(6) You have failed, you have gone wrong, says the modern orientalist.
(7) ❦ When Shakespeare thought of the subcontinent – egged on by semi-mythic reports of European travellers – it was an orientalist fantasy of shimmering beauty, untold riches, exotic people, embodied in the strange but beguiling figure of the "lovely boy" stolen by Titania in A Midsummer Night's Dream .
(8) Large-scale conflicts between Hindus and Muslims (religiously defined), only began under colonial rule; many other kinds of social strife were labelled as religious due to the colonists’ orientalist assumption that religion was the fundamental division in Indian society.
(9) It is argued, that the meaning and interrelationship of the nurses' definitions and explanations of characteristics and problems in migrant households should be understood in the context of (1) the orientalist literature about the population of 'eastern' countries which is recommended in the professional trainings, (2) former and current perceptions of class differences in child rearing practices by professionals and (3) traditional ideas about the position and responsibilities of mothers which dominate in youth health care in the Netherlands.
(10) White western men travel to Asian countries to sexually exploit women on whom they project their orientalist, racist fetishes.
(11) That was a view of the Empire as the white man's burden: then it came with Orientalists, now it is accompanied by corporate logos.
(12) Development was just a modern way of doing this: a re-enactment of Orientalist tropes in technocratic guise.
(13) However, the way it has been used by Femen feeds into and reinforces a racist and orientalist discourse about the women and men of north Africa and the Middle East.