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easting
  1. (cartography) The distance east of a standard reference meridian.
  2. (nautical) A distance traveled eastward.
  3. Examples:
    1. “These four regions divide the CBC plots into approximately equal samples around easting 45 and northing 21 of the U.K. national grid.”
      “At this time we began to prepare for the heavy weather of our easting, as the run across the Indian Ocean is called.”
      “And yet here you are, with all the stuff of the sea in you, running down your easting for port.”
east
  1. 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.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “He turned his gaze towards the east as the first rays of sunlight painted the sky in vibrant hues.”
easterner
  1. A native or inhabitant of the east of a region (or of the world as a whole), such as one of the eastern United States.
  2. Examples:
    1. “He was an easterner who traveled in the West and, through his illustrations, defined it for Americans and for the world.”
      “I do not know how a modern ad agency would choose to create a visual image of the typical easterner, but the stereotype will not be holding a fly rod or wearing skis.”
      “In an instant it was all over, but in that instant the easterner had lived years.”
eastie
  1. (Australia, slang) An inhabitant of the eastern suburbs of Sydney.
easterly
  1. (meteorology) Any persistent wind from the east (usually applied to broad currents or belts of easterly winds).
  2. Synonyms:
easternism
  1. Something that is characteristic of the eastern part of a region.
easternness
  1. the state or quality of being eastern
eastside
  1. (US) The east side of a district or city
  2. Examples:
    1. “There are roughly 9,000 junkies in 30 square blocks in Vancouver's downtown eastside.”
      “The wind gets up then, and the hail it flings against the eastside window drowns her voice in white noise.”
      “Lake Success, a township on Long Island, was home to the United Nations long before it moved to its iconic eastside headquarters.”
eastward
  1. The direction or area lying to the east.
  2. Synonyms:
easternisms
  1. plural of easternism
easterners
  1. plural of easterner
  2. Examples:
    1. “Both characters are urbane easterners who fit very well into the diverse, fast-paced lifestyle of New York.”
      “In 1880 the Southern Pacific Railroad opened the region to easy settlement by easterners.”
      “Then gradually it assumed a specific regional identity in the West, developing a strong imaginative appeal to both easterners and westerners.”
eastsides
  1. plural of eastside
easterlies
  1. plural of easterly
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “A second region of high pressure exists over the poles, where the descending air spreads outward to form the polar easterlies.”
      “The polar front forms where the polar easterlies and the prevailing westerlies converge.”
      “At the mid-latitudes, the winds are called the westerlies, and at the highest latitudes, the winds are called the polar easterlies.”
eastings
  1. plural of easting
  2. Examples:
    1. “A complete M. G. R. S. coördinate consists of the zone designation, the square designation, and a pair of numbers, called eastings and northings.”
      “Somewhat counterintuitively, eastings are measurements from the west side of the square and northings from the south side.”
      “Correlation matrix for environmental variables, plus eastings and northings Soil variables were for the 0-l0cm depth.”
easties
  1. plural of eastie
easts
  1. plural of east
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Norths and Easts were forced to endure their second washout in three weeks and will be keen to get some game time in coming weeks.”
      Easts wicket keeper Dale Box did well with the gloves, stumping two batsmen, one off the bowling of Jobson and another off David Wells.”
      “Fearnley played 139 matches for Eastern Suburbs between 195455 and 195764, and coached at the Easts, Parramatta, Western Suburbs, Cronulla and Illawarra.”
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