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 →

2) East is opposite to west; on a map it is on the right. tree →

3) The East can mean the countries of Asia. tree →

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 →
• He walked 3 blocks east and 2 blocks west. tree →
• The farm is east of the town. tree →
• How far east is she from home? tree →
• The sun rises in the east. tree →
• On a map, east is on the right. tree →
• We live on the east side of the city. tree →
• A cold wind blew from the east. tree →

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.
• Once they bloom most stop and face east, where the morning sun warms them and bees visit more.
• Goldfish come from a wild carp of East Asia, and people in China kept rare golden ones more than a thousand years ago.
• In Liverpool "boss" means great; in the East Midlands "me duck" is a friendly way to address someone.
• The Sun rises roughly in the east and sets roughly in the west.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «east» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.