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East
Definition:
(n.) The point in the heavens where the sun is seen to rise at the equinox, or the corresponding point on the earth; that one of the four cardinal points of the compass which is in a direction at right angles to that of north and south, and which is toward the right hand of one who faces the north; the point directly opposite to the west.
(n.) The eastern parts of the earth; the regions or countries which lie east of Europe; the orient. In this indefinite sense, the word is applied to Asia Minor, Syria, Chaldea, Persia, India, China, etc.; as, the riches of the East; the diamonds and pearls of the East; the kings of the East.
(n.) Formerly, the part of the United States east of the Alleghany Mountains, esp. the Eastern, or New England, States; now, commonly, the whole region east of the Mississippi River, esp. that which is north of Maryland and the Ohio River; -- usually with the definite article; as, the commerce of the East is not independent of the agriculture of the West.
(a.) Toward the rising sun; or toward the point where the sun rises when in the equinoctial; as, the east gate; the east border; the east side; the east wind is a wind that blows from the east.
(adv.) Eastward.
(v. i.) To move toward the east; to veer from the north or south toward the east; to orientate.
Example Sentences:
(1) A commensurate rise in both smoking and adenocarcinoma has occurred in the Far East where the incidence rate (40%) is twice that of North America or Europe.
(2) Former Regional director for Latin American Caribbean and Middle East, Save the Children.
(3) Shelter’s analysis of MoJ figures highlights high-risk hotspots across the country where families are particularly at risk of losing their homes, with households in Newham, east London, most exposed to the possibility of eviction or repossession, with one in every 36 homes threatened.
(4) Hemoglobin British Columbia was found in an East Indian living in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
(5) Nor is this political fantasy: at the European elections in May, across 51 authorities in the north-west and north-east, Ukip finished ahead of Labour in 18 and as its main rival in 30.
(6) The company also confirmed on Thursday as it launched its sports pay-TV offering at its new broadcasting base in the Olympic Park in Stratford, east London, that former BBC presenter Jake Humphrey will anchor its Premier League coverage.
(7) In the far east is the arid, depressed country leading down Hell’s Canyon, which bottoms out at the Snake River, which the wolves crossed when they moved from Idaho, and which they now treat more as a crosswalk than a barrier.
(8) The visitors did have a chance to pull another back with three minutes remaining but Henry blazed a free-kick from within range on the left over the bar, summing up Wolves’ day out in the East Midlands.
(9) A reduction of salmonellae during the passage of the pump and pressure conduit-pipe, combining east- and west-side of Kiel fjord, could be seen.
(10) Kimberley Carlile , aged four, was starved and beaten by her stepfather in Greenwich, east London, in 1986.
(11) Various immunoassays have been introduced into, and evaluated at, the Amani Medical Centre in north-east Tanzania.
(12) When Martin Luther King was assassinated, they sent state troopers to my high school in east St Louis.
(13) Admirable, but will destroying ivory get that message through to poachers, ivory traffickers and the workshops in east Asia and elsewhere that buy smuggled raw ivory?
(14) As he gears up to contest the Liberal Democrat seat of Gordon in north-east Scotland, Salmond effectively assumes a commanding role in the general election campaign.
(15) The UN estimates that at least 10 million people in east Africa will be in need of humanitarian assistance as a result of severe food shortages, failed harvest, rising food prices and conflict in the region.
(16) This virus is related to HIV-1, the causative agent of the AIDS epidemic now spreading in Central and East Africa, as well as the USA and Europe (see ref.
(17) The company abandoned plans to build a second savoury factory in the East Midlands, as well as its Greggs Moment coffee shops which it had been trialling since 2011.
(18) After filming, he stayed on in the Middle East for several weeks to travel.
(19) In Tokyo, the US president warned China against forcibly pressing its maritime claims, following Beijing's unilateral declaration last autumn of an air exclusion zone over Japanese-controlled islands in the East China Sea.
(20) Likud warned: “Peres will divide Jerusalem.” Arab states feared that his dream of a borderless Middle East spelled Israeli economic colonialism by stealth.
Easternmost
Definition:
(a.) Most eastern.
Example Sentences:
(1) The initiative, unveiled last summer and currently being evaluated by Maine governor Paul LePage's administration, would make America's easternmost county the first to waive such taxes in a state that has them, and is intended to showcase economic libertarians' contention that taxes are a central impediment to economic development.
(2) To give the plan a fighting chance, Ecuador committed to forego half of the estimated value of the oil in its easternmost concession block if it received a total of US$3.2bn over a period of 13 years.
(3) Michael Brown , who bankrolled the party with £2.4m of stolen money, was detained near the resort of Punta Cana on the easternmost tip of the Caribbean island this week.
(4) Forecasting snow is always challenging and there’s often a fine line between whether it will rain or snow in a particular location depending on slight changes in air temperature.” The outlook for the UK over the weekend was for generally dry weather on Saturday, with sunny spells across most of England and Scotland and a few showers, locally wintry, in Northern Ireland and western and easternmost parts of Britain.
(5) The genetic polymorphism of eight red cell enzymes was analyzed in four population samples from the two easternmost islands of the Canary Archipelago.
(6) Serum samples from 475 male and 420 female subjects from the population of eastern Caprivi, the north-easternmost territory in northern Namibia, were examined for the presence of hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg), antibodies to HBsAg (anti-HBs) and hepatitis B core antigen (anti-HBc).
(7) Waging war!” After two years of relative calm, the sounds of war have returned to the easternmost part of Turkey , where Kurds have lived on the frontline of a bloody conflict between the Turkish state and the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ party (PKK) for decades.
(8) Before 2010 it had mostly engaged in low-key terrorism – daredevil raids on police stations to steal weapons, on banks to steal money and on prisons to free jailed terror suspects – confined to the north-easternmost part of the country.
(9) • Russian troops have taken over a ferry terminal on the easternmost tip of Crimea in the city of Kerch and Russian armoured cars were lining up on the Russian side of the Kerch Channel .
(10) The 45-year-old son of a local councillor and electric power station director, Hofer was born in Burgenland, Austria’s easternmost and least prosperous state, trained as an aeronautical engineer and spent his early career at Lauda Air.
(11) If there’s war again, it will be all-out civil war.” In Şemdinli, a small town nestling in Turkey’s easternmost corner between the Iranian and Iraqi borders, and where PKK fighters led their first armed attack against Turkish security forces in 1984, hope for peace is hanging by a thread.
(12) The bishop of Burgenland, Austria’s easternmost province, recently refused to let Austrian authorities erect a border fence on church land, saying erecting borders was against the Gospel message – but only this week he warned that Europe must not be “too naive” regarding plans to Islamise Europe.
(13) Part of Indonesia’s easternmost Papua province on New Guinea island, West Papua is ethnically distinct from the rest of the country and was annexed by Indonesia in 1969.
(14) Water Street, the main drag in Eastport, America's easternmost incorporated city, is missing something: boarded up storefronts.
(15) It appears that this parasite occurs only on the easternmost islands of the Indonesian archipelago where it is nonetheless a rare finding.
(16) The sources said he was at the early, information-gathering stages of an investigation into a suspected smuggling operation, and noted that elements of the FSB – the Federal Security Bureau, successor to the Soviet KGB – were heavily involved in trafficking of contraband products across the European Union's easternmost border with Russia.
(17) Waiters in the hotels along Punta Cana beach, a curve of white sand on the easternmost tip of the Dominican Republic , say the Scottish man in bermuda shorts is known as the owner of Charlie, a rottweiler-alsatian cross which is usually by his side.
(18) Ethnohistorical records suggest that the Meiteis are of Mongoloid origin, while the original Brahmin settlers represent the easternmost part of the so-called Caucasoids.
(19) Separately, video has emerged of a conversation between a journalist and a soldier in Kerch in easternmost Crimea in which the soldier admits to being Russian and says he’s there to defend against terrorists.
(20) While on the island, Brown has been based in the province of La Altagracia, the easternmost tip of the Republic close to some of its most beautiful beaches.