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One of the four principal compass points, specifically 90°, conventionally directed to the right on maps; the direction of the rising sun at an equinox. Abbreviated as E.
adjective
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Situated or lying in or towards the east; eastward.
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Wind from the east
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Of or pertaining to the east; eastern.
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From the East; oriental.
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Designating, or situated in, that part of a church which contains the choir or chancel.
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the east front of a cathedral
adverb
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Towards the east; eastwards
Examples of east in a Sentence
Sun rises in the east and sets in the west.
Lightening flashed in the east and thunder rumbled a posthumous threat.
Standing on the smooth sandy beach at the east end of the pond, in a calm September afternoon, when a slight haze makes the opposite shore-line indistinct, I have seen whence came the expression, "the glassy surface of a lake."
His gaze turned to the east, where yellow lined the horizon.
I parked our car here, at the East Boston airport, as we were scheduled to return together by air.
He flew back East to Virginia yesterday.
Back East, winters are always angry, even cruel sometimes.
The sea shore is too far to the east so I fear she'll be remanded to a roadside bier of Kudzu and discarded fast food wrappers.
But there will be a few thousand bad guys within a stone's throw of us …" "Pull in everything we can from the east coast sectors," Dusty said.
Several times it moves eastward and collides with a countermovement from the east westward.
Perhaps I'll move further east and see if the plucking is better when the weather is cooler.
Telluride's sixty-six trails, spread over more than a thousand acres, were an awesome change from the crowded slopes Dean had skied in the East in years gone by.
As he peddled downhill toward Ridgway, he could see the east side of the valley, exposed to the southern sun, had melted nearly clear of snow while across the valley, draped in shadow most of the day, the western slope retained almost all its recent covering.
Additionally, we had a five-acre garden where we grew everything you can grow in East Texas.
In 1812 it reaches its extreme limit, Moscow, and then, with remarkable symmetry, a countermovement occurs from east to west, attracting to it, as the first movement had done, the nations of middle Europe.
Quinn is coming back east from Santa Barbara so they can leave together as a family.
Our new quarters were in The Pacific Crest Inn on the east side of town.
Quite a few, and they're pulling in everyone from the east coast to Miami and Orlando.
I planned on going to Seychelles to escape the east coast cold, but Gio said being invited here was an honor.
Dean never ceased to marvel at the difference of high mountain snow from the heavy, wet precipitation of the East and the endless problems it caused with man and auto.
Flares went up to the east and south.
She knows where every emerops point is on the East Coast.
We figure he's still in the east.
According to Betsy, on the note Martha left, she said Quinn was coming back east to meet up with his wife and daughter and leave from here.
I used to use Amtrak when I was working out of New York and had to travel the east coast.
The sheriff's office was located only a few blocks east of Bird Song, behind the County Court House, where Fred O'Connor would report for jury duty the following Tuesday.
But not even in the worst of times did they ever regret for a moment abandoning their life in the East for this quiet mountain hamlet they now called home and their sometimes hectic life of running a country inn.
The village of Ouray lay snuggled at the terminus of a long valley, wrapped in a box canyon by the towering San Juans to the east, west and south.
He called the local sheriff in Ouray and said he plans to come out and haul his 'mentally stressed wife' back East with him.
We must maintain East Coast operations from here.
Each trip up the side of the mountain grew harder as chaos erupted along the East Coast and drove refugees through Brady's area of operation.
I've never seen anything indicating the PMF could wipe out the East Coast.
The sun peeked over the desert horizon to the east.
St Michael's church in East Teignmouth was rebuilt in 1824 in Decorated style, but retains a Norman doorway and other ancient portions; of St James', in West Teignmouth, the south porch and tower are Norman.
Many are concerned about the monuments of the West and the East--to know who built them.
As if measuring themselves and preparing for the coming movement, the western forces push toward the east several times in 1805, 1806, 1807, and 1809, gaining strength and growing.
For us that movement of the peoples from west to east, without leaders, with a crowd of vagrants, and with Peter the Hermit, remains incomprehensible.
Men went from the west to the east killing their fellow men, and the event was accompanied by phrases about the glory of France, the baseness of England, and so on.
It looks like he's moving east and maybe will drop down in the states in New York or New England.
Julie wants desperately to come back east but Howie wants to talk to Martha and learn the truth before he leaves.
I bet you've seen stuff like that back East, seeing as you were a big city cop and all.
You'd think the plan was to help the survivors, but I'm in a constant battle with others who want to wipe out everything east of the Mississippi and just start over.
The major cities in the East hit by nukes were marked in red with concentric circles that faded to orange, yellow, and finally green as they stretched west.
I have reason to believe that's about the only place that hasn't been infiltrated by those professing allegiance to East or West.
With Lana, you'll have access to all the emerops depots the feds have east of the Mississippi.
Tim released the locations to everything east of the Mississippi.
With a deep breath, she released the locks on all the emerops facilities east of the Mississippi.
The entire East Coast had to be purged and redeveloped.
Was he named after the great warrior from the far east?
It should have arrived at Hugson's Siding at midnight, but it was already five o'clock and the gray dawn was breaking in the east when the little train slowly rumbled up to the open shed that served for the station-house.