(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.
Eastwards
Definition:
(adv.) Toward the east; in the direction of east from some point or place; as, New Haven lies eastward from New York.
Example Sentences:
(1) And as we saw during the eastward expansion of Nato in the 1990s – now coming back to haunt us in a new cold war with Russia – there are politically powerful military contractors that can also have a voice in US foreign and military policy.
(2) The Met Office issued a severe weather warning overnight when rain turned into sleet and snow as it moved eastwards.
(3) It is likely that this division continues eastward across Austria, north of Hungary, and across the upper Ukraine to the Caspien Sea, but this is not definite.
(4) Beyond, they walked eastward on the edges of the fields.
(5) I have been told by insiders that the strategic thrust of Pope Francis’s diplomacy is all directed eastwards, towards the emergence of China as a great religious power.
(6) He is also sceptical about the role of Nato , in particular its eastwards expansion and the standoff with Russia.
(7) Bat isolates can be divided into 4 major antigenic groups: "B-1" in Eptesicus fuscus from Ontario; "B-2" in a variety of bat species from British Columbia eastward into Ontario; "B-3" in Myotis spp.
(8) London will also benefit from "super-fast" broadband, receiving up to £25m to install faster internet connections for 750,000 Londoners and more than 120,000 businesses, in addition to a wireless access area spreading eastwards from central London towards the Olympic site, according to the Times.
(9) He accepted the possible case for the Thames estuary site, but only if London's growth were recast eastwards.
(10) Geographically, the epidemic moved eastward and southward in the state.
(11) It is suggested that the eastward shift of the synchronizer may be beneficial for the poultry birds.
(12) The results of the trajectory analyses suggested that eastern equine encephalitis virus could have been carried by infected mosquitoes on surface winds at temperatures 13 degrees C or higher from North Carolina north-eastwards along the Atlantic Coast to Maryland and New Jersey and thence to upstate New York and from western Kentucky to Michigan.
(13) "We have got a deep low pressure system moving in from the west that is expected to track eastwards across the English Channel," said Paul Mott, forecaster with MeteoGroup, the weather division of the Press Association.
(14) Nocturnal sleep and daytime sleep latencies, recorded electroencephalographically after westward and eastward flights across the North Atlantic involving time zone shifts of 5 h, were influenced by the time of the flight and by subsequent displacement of the rest period.
(15) Gmf;b haplotype frequency in kumandinians was found to be 0.310; in chelkanians living eastward it was 0.212.
(16) With the exception of subjective alertness on the eastward voyage, the basic phase of the circadian rhythms in the measured variables adjusted appropriately to the clock changes associated with the time zone crossings.
(17) A powerful storm blamed for eight deaths in the western United States is surging eastwards and threatening to disrupt Thanksgiving travel plans across swathes of the country.
(18) Instead it aims to limit the geographical spread of TB eastwards into less affected counties.
(19) However, there was persistent disturbance of sleep after the eastward flight.
(20) Hematological indices, viz., hemoglobin concentration, number of circulating erythrocytes, hematocrit and biochemical variables, such as concentration of glucose and protein in plasma; glycogen, protein and lipid in liver; and muscle tissues were significantly more in chicks exposed to repeated eastward shifts, when compared with the control birds (LD 12:12).