📖 E — The English dictionary · page 3

east — Everyday, meaning 1: East is the direction where the sun comes up in the morning.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: East is opposite to west; on a map it is on the right.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: The East can mean the countries of Asia.↗ Example: The bus drives 20 km east.↗ · He walked 3 blocks east and 2 blocks west.↗ · The farm is east of the town.↗ · How far east is she from home?↗ · The sun rises in the east.↗ · On a map, east is on the right.↗ · We live on the east side of the city.↗ · A cold wind blew from the east.↗ · And for the east side eastward fifty cubits.↗ (Torah EXO.38.13, JPS 1917)↗ · And, behold, seven ears, thin and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them.↗ (Torah GEN.41.6, JPS 1917)↗ · And the breadth of the court on the east side eastward shall be fifty cubits.↗ (Torah EXO.27.13, JPS 1917)↗ · With the east wind Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish.↗ (Writings PSA.48.8, JPS 1917)↗ · Shall it not utterly wither, when the east wind toucheth it?↗ (Prophets EZK.17.10, JPS 1917)↗ · Who hath raised up one from the east, at whose steps victory attendeth?↗ (Prophets ISA.41.2, JPS 1917)↗

easterly — Everyday, meaning 1: Towards the east or in the east: an easterly direction.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (of wind) Blowing from the east.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (noun) A wind that comes from the east.↗ Example: A cold easterly wind blew across the field.↗ · We walked in an easterly direction towards the sunrise.↗ · The ship sailed on an easterly course.↗ · The easterlies near the equator are called trade winds.↗ · The weather forecast says a strong easterly will bring snow.↗ · Our school is on the easterly side of the town.↗

eastern — Everyday, meaning 1: Eastern means in, from or towards the east: eastern Canada, the eastern sky.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Eastern (often «Eastern») describes the countries and cultures of Asia, especially East Asia.↗ e.g. Eastern philosophy.↗ Example: The sun rises in the eastern sky.↗ · New York is on the eastern coast of the USA.↗ · Sydney is in eastern Australia.↗ · An eastern wind blew from the sea.↗ · The eastern side of the school gets the morning sun.↗ · Poland is in Eastern Europe.↗ · Their measure is the Twelve Diagonal Borders: Northeastern border, Southeastern border, Upper-Eastern border, Lower-Western border, Upper-Northern border, Lower-Northern border, Southwestern border, Northwestern border, Upper-Western border, Lower-Western border, Upper-Southern border, Lower-Southern border.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗ · Then said he unto me: 'These waters issue forth toward the eastern region, and shall go down into the Arabah; and when they shall enter into the sea, into the sea of the putrid waters, the waters shall be healed.↗ (Prophets EZK.47.8, JPS 1917)↗ · And it shall come to pass in that day, that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem: half of them toward the eastern sea, and half of them toward the western sea; in summer and in winter shall it be.↗ (Prophets ZEC.14.8, JPS 1917)↗

eastward — Everyday, meaning 1: (adverb) Towards the east.↗ e.g. The ship sailed eastward.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (adjective) Going or facing towards the east: the eastward road.↗ Example: The storm is moving eastward across the country.↗ · We drove eastward towards the sunrise.↗ · The Earth spins eastward, so the sun seems to rise in the east.↗ · The eastward train leaves at 9.↗ · On the map, walk 3 squares eastward, then 2 north.↗ · Birds flew eastward over the sea.↗ · Finnian, the Abbott of Moville, went southwards and eastwards in great haste.↗ · And for the east side eastward fifty cubits.↗ (Torah EXO.38.13, JPS 1917)↗ · And the breadth of the court on the east side eastward shall be fifty cubits.↗ (Torah EXO.27.13, JPS 1917)↗ · the two tribes and the half-tribe have received their inheritance beyond the Jordan at Jericho eastward, toward the sun-rising.'↗ (Torah NUM.34.15, JPS 1917)↗ · And the lot eastward fell to Shelemiah.↗ (Writings 1CH.26.14, JPS 1917)↗ · And he said: 'Open the window eastward'; and he opened it.↗ (Prophets 2KI.13.17, JPS 1917)↗ · And he set the sea on the right side of the house eastward, toward the south.↗ (Writings 2CH.4.10, JPS 1917)↗

easy — Everyday, meaning 1: Easy means not difficult, simple to do or understand.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Easy means comfortable and relaxed: an easy chair.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: «Take it easy» means relax and don't work too hard; «go easy on» means be gentle with.↗ Example: This sum is easy: two plus two is four.↗ · Riding a bike is easy once you learn.↗ · Take it easy; you've been working all day.↗ · Easy-peasy, lemon squeezy!↗ · It's easier to read with good light.↗ · Go easy on your little brother; he's only four.↗ · The test was easier than I expected.↗ · Saying sorry is easier said than done.↗ · Dear me, that is easy enough!↗ · A scorner seeketh wisdom, and findeth it not; but knowledge is easy unto him that hath discernment.↗ (Writings PRO.14.6, JPS 1917)↗

eat — Everyday, meaning 1: To eat is to put food in your mouth, chew it and swallow it.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To eat a meal is to have it: we eat dinner at six.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To eat into or eat away something is to slowly use it up or damage it: rust eats away metal.↗ Example: I eat three plums from the table.↗ · There were 9 apples.↗ Tom ate 1 of them.↗ How many apples are left?↗ · Ravi ate 4 of the 12 grapes.↗ · We eat lunch at twelve.↗ · Eat your vegetables; they help you grow.↗ · Cows eat grass.↗ · Never eat wild mushrooms or berries without asking an adult.↗ · Let's eat out tonight.↗ · "Then eat heartily," said the Barmecide.↗ · Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing.↗ (Torah DEU.14.3, JPS 1917)↗ · Of all clean birds ye may eat.↗ (Torah DEU.14.11, JPS 1917)↗ · And they did eat there by the heap.↗ (Torah GEN.31.46, JPS 1917)↗ · So Ahab went up to eat and to drink.↗ (Prophets 1KI.18.42, JPS 1917)↗ · So they poured out for the men to eat.↗ (Prophets 2KI.4.40, JPS 1917)↗ · Eat, O friends; drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved.↗ (Writings SNG.5.1, JPS 1917)↗

eater — Everyday, meaning 1: A person or animal that eats, often described by how or what it eats: «a fussy eater», «a big eater».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (as part of a word) An animal that eats a certain food: «anteater», «meat-eater», «plant-eater».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A fire-eater is a performer who pretends to eat fire and breathes out flames at shows.↗ Example: My brother is a very fussy eater.↗ · Lions are meat-eaters.↗ · Cows are plant-eaters.↗ · The anteater licks up ants with its long tongue.↗ · Dad is a big eater; he always has seconds.↗ · A healthy eater has lots of fruit and vegetables.↗ · She is a slow eater, so she is last to leave the table.↗ · The fire-eater laughed again, and blew a flame at Makoma.↗ · Be not among winebibbers; among gluttonous eaters of flesh; (Writings PRO.23.20, JPS 1917)↗ · And he said unto them: Out of the eater came forth food, and out of the strong came forth sweetness.↗ (Prophets JDG.14.14, JPS 1917)↗ · All thy fortresses shall be like fig-trees with the first-ripe figs: if they be shaken, they fall into the mouth of the eater.↗ (Prophets NAM.3.12, JPS 1917)↗

eatest — Early Modern English, meaning 1: «eatest» means «you eat», a form of «eat».↗ e.g. To eat is to put food in your mouth, chew it and swallow it.↗ Example: but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it; for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.'↗ (Torah GEN.2.17, JPS 1917)

eateth — Early Modern English, meaning 1: «eateth» means «eats», a form of «eat».↗ e.g. To eat is to put food in your mouth, chew it and swallow it.↗ Example: Whosoever it be that eateth any blood, that soul shall be cut off from his people.↗ (Torah LEV.7.27, JPS 1917) · And he that lieth in the house shall wash his clothes; and he that eateth in the house shall wash his clothes.↗ (Torah LEV.14.47, JPS 1917) · But every one that eateth it shall bear his iniquity, because he hath profaned the holy thing of the LORD; and that soul shall be cut off from his people.↗ (Torah LEV.19.8, JPS 1917)

eaves — Everyday, meaning 1: The lower edges of a roof that stick out beyond the walls of a house.↗ Example: Swallows built a nest under the eaves.↗ · Icicles hung from the eaves all winter.↗ · Rain dripped from the eaves of the old cottage.↗ · The gutter along the eaves was full of leaves.↗ · We sheltered from the shower under the eaves.↗ · Wasps made a nest under the eaves of the shed.↗ · “Do you know,” Peter asked “why swallows build in the eaves of houses?↗

ebb — Everyday, meaning 1: To ebb is to flow back out, as the sea goes away from the shore.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To ebb is to get less and less, to drain away slowly.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: The ebb is the time when the tide is going out.↗ Example: The tide began to ebb at noon.↗ · The sea ebbed away from the rocks.↗ · Her strength ebbed as the day went on.↗ · We walked on the sand while the ebb was low.↗

ebbing — Everyday, meaning 1: Ebbing means going back out, getting less.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: An ebbing tide is a sea going out from the shore.↗ Example: The ebbing tide left shells on the beach.↗ · Her fear was ebbing away.↗ · The boat floated on the ebbing sea.↗

ebn — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: A spelling of "Ibn", meaning "son of" in Arabic names.↗ Example: I must not omit to mention two other Hebrew commentaries, one by Judah Halevi, and the other by Ebn Ezra, who lived in the first part of the twelfth century.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗

ebony — Everyday, meaning 1: Ebony is a very hard, dark black wood.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Ebony means very black, like the wood.↗ Example: The chopsticks were made of ebony.↗ · Her hair was as black as ebony.↗ · The piano keys were ebony and ivory.↗ · The men of Dedan were thy traffickers; many isles were the mart of thy hand; they brought thee as tribute horns of ivory and ebony.↗ (Prophets EZK.27.15, JPS 1917)↗

eccentric — Everyday, meaning 1: An eccentric person behaves in an unusual, strange but usually harmless way.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (noun) An eccentric is such a person.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (maths/science) Eccentric describes a circle or orbit that is not centred, or an oval path.↗ Example: Our neighbour is a bit eccentric — he walks his cat on a lead.↗ · The eccentric inventor built a flying bicycle.↗ · She wears eccentric hats.↗ · The village was full of lovable eccentrics.↗ · The professor had eccentric habits.↗ · Some planets have an eccentric orbit.↗ · Many of them were very aged; lonely old boys, with strange thoughts and eccentric habits.↗

ecclesiastic — Everyday, meaning 1: An ecclesiastic is a person in the church, such as a priest or monk.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Ecclesiastic means to do with the church (formal).↗ Example: The ecclesiastic blessed the new church.↗ · The ecclesiastic read from the old book.↗ · The ecclesiastic building was very tall.↗

ecclesiastical — Everyday, meaning 1: Connected with the Christian church or its clergy (priests, ministers, bishops): «ecclesiastical buildings», «ecclesiastical law».↗ Example: The bishop wore his ecclesiastical robes.↗ · The museum has a room of ecclesiastical silver.↗ · The old church is a fine example of ecclesiastical architecture.↗ · In the past, ecclesiastical courts judged church matters.↗ · The library holds many ecclesiastical records.↗ · Ecclesiastical music filled the cathedral.↗

ecg — Everyday, meaning 1: Short for electrocardiogram: a medical test that records the electrical signals of the heart as a wavy line.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The machine that does this test (electrocardiograph).↗ Example: The doctor gave Grandad an ECG to check his heart.↗ · Sticky pads are put on your chest for an ECG.↗ · The ECG showed a normal heartbeat.↗ · An ECG does not hurt at all.↗ · On the screen, the ECG line went up and down with each beat.↗ · Nurses read the ECG to see if the heart was beating normally.↗

echidna — Everyday, meaning 1: An echidna is a small spiny animal from Australia and New Guinea that eats ants and termites with a long sticky tongue.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: It is one of the only mammals that lay eggs, together with the platypus.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: In Greek myths, Echidna was a monster, half woman and half serpent.↗ Example: An echidna is covered in sharp spines.↗ · The echidna curled up into a spiky ball.↗ · Echidnas lay eggs, but they are still mammals.↗ · It licks up ants with its long, sticky tongue.↗ · A baby echidna is called a puggle.↗ · We saw an echidna crossing the bush track.↗ · Echidnas live in Australia and New Guinea.↗ · [48] Echidna was a bloodthirsty monster, half maiden, half serpent.↗

echo — Everyday, meaning 1: An echo is a sound you hear again because it bounces back off a hard surface, like a cliff, a wall or the inside of a cave.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To echo means to come back as an echo, or for a place to be full of echoes.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To echo someone means to repeat what they said, or to agree with it.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: An echo of something is a small reminder of it.↗ Example: We shouted «Hello!» in the cave and heard the echo.↗ · Our footsteps echoed in the empty hall.↗ · Bats use echoes to find insects in the dark.↗ · Sound bounced off the cliff and came back as an echo.↗ · The baby echoed every word I said.↗ · I echo what Sam said; it was a great trip.↗ · Curtains help stop echoes in a room.↗ · The music echoed down the tunnel.↗ · “No, No, No!” repeated the echoes.↗