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Look up: East

  1. East
    East is a township in Carroll County Ohio, USA
    Found on http://fas.org/news/reference/probert/G9

  2. East
    Meaning as a surname: Newcomer from the east, dweller to the east of the village.
    Found on http://www.nameseekers.co.uk/surname.htm

  3. East
    [adj] - situated in or facing or moving toward the east 2. [adv] - to, toward, or in the east 3. [n] - the cardinal compass point that is at 90 degrees 4. [n] - the region of the United States lying north of the Ohio River and east of the Mississippi River 5. [n] - the countries of Asia
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  4. EAST
    A Eureka project developing a software engineering platform. (1994-12-07)
    Found on

  5. EAST
    Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma
    Found on http://www.geocities.com/~mlshams/acrony

  6. East
    East (ēst) noun [ Middle English est , east , Anglo-Saxon eást ; akin to Dutch oost , oosten , Old High German ōstan , German ost , osten , Icelandic austr , Swedish ost , Danish öst , östen , Lithuanian auszra dawn, Latin aurora (for ausosa ), Greek 'hw`s ,
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/E/3

  7. East
    East adjective 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.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/E/3

  8. East
    East adverb Eastward.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/E/3

  9. East
    East intransitive verb To move toward the east; to veer from the north or south toward the east; to orientate.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/E/3

  10. East
    East adjective (Eccl.) Designating, or situated in, that part of a church which contains the choir or chancel; as, the east front of a cathedral.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/E/3

  11. east
    adjective situated in or facing or moving toward the east
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  12. east
    adverb to, toward, or in the east; `we travelled east for several miles`; `located east of Rome`
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  13. East
    Orient noun the countries of Asia
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  14. east
    due east noun the cardinal compass point that is at 90 degrees
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  15. East
    noun the region of the United States lying north of the Ohio River and east of the Mississippi River
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  16. East
    `East` is a direction in geography. It is one of the four cardinal directions or compass points, opposite of west and at right angles to north and south. East is the direction toward which the Earth rotates about its axis, and therefore the general direction from which the Sun appears to rise. The etymology of `east` is from a Proto-Indo-European language word for dawn. `Cf.` Latin `aurora` and Greek `eÅÂ?s`. `Eostre`, a Germanic goddess of dawn,...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East

  17. East
    `East` is a direction in geography. It is one of the four cardinal directions or compass points, opposite of west and at right angles to north and south. East is the direction toward which the Earth rotates about its axis, and therefore the general direction from which the Sun appears to rise. The etymology of `east` is from a Proto-Indo-European language word for dawn. `Cf.` Latin `aurora` and Greek `eÅÂ?s`. `Eostre`, a Germanic goddess of dawn,...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East

  18. EAST
    The `Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak` (EAST, internal designation HT-7U) is an experimental superconducting tokamak magnetic fusion energy reactor in Hefei, the capital city of Anhui Province, in eastern China. The experiment is being conducted by the Hefei-based Institute of Plasma Physics under the Chinese Academy of Sciences. The project was proposed in 1996 and approved in 1998. According to a 2003 schedule, buildings and site f...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EAST

  19. East
    • (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. &b...
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  20. East
    East is a English girl name. The meaning of the name is `Grace` From Old English. The name East doesn`t appear In the US top 1000 most common names over de last 128 years. The name East seems to be unique!
    Found on http://i-am-pregnant.com/names/girls/Eas

  21. east
    1. the cardinal compass point that is at 90 degrees
    2. the countries of Asia

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5 December 2008

This day in history:
On 5th December 1872 a crewman on watch on board the British ship Dei Gratia sighted vessel that seemed to be in distress. Three seamen lowered the Dei Gratia's small boat and rowed across to the troubled craft to offer assistance. They hauled themselves over the ship's rails and dropped onto the deck; save for the sound of the wind in the sails and the eerie creaking of the ship's timbers, there was not a sound. The seamen searched the ship from stem to stern and found her to be in excellent condition, but there was not a soul on board. Her crew had disappeared. The name of the ship was Mary Celeste. read more

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