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# east

«east» in Mova's school dictionary: **the direction where the sun comes up in the morning** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun, adjective, adverb (east, East)

### meaning for a pupil

1) East is the direction where the sun comes up in the morning. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/east/#m1)

2) East is opposite to west; on a map it is on the right. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/east/#m2)

3) The East can mean the countries of Asia. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/east/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

maths: a direction for travel; going east and west on a line (subtract to find how far from the start); coordinates and grids; geography: compass points north, east, south, west; the sun rises in the east; everyday life: east coast, east wind; phrases: «head east»

### examples

- The bus drives 20 km east. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/east/#x1)
- He walked 3 blocks east and 2 blocks west. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/east/#x2)
- The farm is east of the town. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/east/#x3)
- How far east is she from home? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/east/#x4)
- The sun rises in the east. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/east/#x5)
- On a map, east is on the right. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/east/#x6)
- We live on the east side of the city. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/east/#x7)
- A cold wind blew from the east. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/east/#x8)

### note

Direction: east and west are opposite, so subtract to find how far from the start. Trap: east then north is not a straight line sum. Remember the compass with «Never Eat Shredded Wheat»: north, east, south, west going clockwise.

### In the corpora

- [Young sunflowers turn to follow the sun across the sky, then swing back east at night.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/377-ukraine-s-plants-sunflowers-viburnum-poppies-lime-trees-and-steppe-grasses/2/)
- [Once they bloom most stop and face east, where the morning sun warms them and bees visit more.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/377-ukraine-s-plants-sunflowers-viburnum-poppies-lime-trees-and-steppe-grasses/3/)
- [Goldfish come from a wild carp of East Asia, and people in China kept rare golden ones more than a thousand years ago.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/381-silkworms-and-goldfish-two-animals-china-changed/16/)
- [In Liverpool "boss" means great; in the East Midlands "me duck" is a friendly way to address someone.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/40-openings-that-hook-the-reader/17/)
- [The Sun rises roughly in the east and sets roughly in the west.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/16-landmarks/14/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «east» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/east/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.