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Definition of eastward in English: eastwardadjective ˈiːstwədˈis(t)wərd Lying towards, near, or facing the east. they followed an eastward course 他们沿着一条向东的路线行进。 Example sentencesExamples - Leaders of the former communist countries awaiting EU membership cheered Ireland's decision to endorse the EU's eastward expansion.
- The eastward side of the hurricane is causing significant flooding today across a big swathe of Georgia.
- For a few months each year the winds blow easterly, and in those months the ancient Polynesians made eastward voyages of exploration.
- By cutting patches in the path of the beetles' eastward spread, loggers hope to stall their expansion.
- Ten minutes climbing connects you with our outward and eastward route on what a local thought was Roman road.
- Thus Hellenism in its eastward course and Buddhisn in its westward march came in direct contact in Gandhara art and worked out artistic sculptures and other art forms.
- The developing El Nino continues its eastward trek in the Pacific Ocean.
- Crews worked on a firebreak in a nearby canyon to try to cut off an eastward route for the fire.
- Most structures can be explained by eastward retreat of the Pacific and Philippine slabs and southward retreat of the Sunda slab.
- Distance impinged on it from the river, whose waters flowed from the eastward mountains ultimately, as the town always was more or less aware, to the sea, to the world.
- Voters in Hungary have agreed to be part of the historic eastward expansion of the European Union, strongly endorsing economic unification with their more developed neighbours to the west.
- Over that time frame, the European Union's eastward expansion will place Berlin at the heart of the continent.
- The Great Plains, occupied by the Dakotas, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas, are cut through by the eastward flows and have become a great prairie supporting cattle ranching and wheat cultivation.
- On the other side, in East Africa, the eastward pressure of the Mid-Atlantic ridge, combined with the opposite forces generated by the impact of India, created enormous stresses.
- The sand forming these two shoals would ordinarily have been deposited on the East Beach during its eastward drift.
- The winds associated with this broader wake spawn a narrow eastward countercurrent that draws warm water from west to east.
- The stench drifts whenever a strong eastward wind is blowing.
- Along the storms' eastward track, avalanches killed two people on Saturday in Utah, authorities said.
- This eastward road ends at a small peaceful bay, but from this village the road turns south across the Northern Mountain Range through a rainforest.
- The last four hours of paddling we held an eastward course from Orcas to the mainland.
adverb ˈiːstwədˈis(t)wərd Towards the east. 向东 limestone plateaux extend eastward towards the river 灰岩高原朝着河流向东延伸。 Example sentencesExamples - So when El Niño shifts the clouds eastward, the pattern of crests and troughs in the atmosphere also shifts.
- However, the general circulation in the Santa Barbara Channel tends to be cyclonic, which often advects cool surface waters eastward along the northern coasts of the Channel Islands.
- This compositional change is associated with the incision of the rivers that flowed eastwards from the West Midlands.
- The Antarctic Circumpolar Current, sometimes called the West Wind Drift, circles eastward around Antarctica.
- The road snakes eastward and upward and vanishes, as great cycling roads always do, into the trees.
- In the lower elevation of Pinto Basin, Joshua Tree's creosote flats sprawl eastward and forever toward Arizona.
- The Gorband, a shallow stream, flows eastward past dozens of small villages with no electricity or running water.
- Walking eastwards will take you back to the pier.
- A web of rivers flowed eastwards from the Drakensberg mountains to the sea.
- Overtaken by events, he began pressing for guarantees that NATO would not absorb East Germany or expand eastwards.
- Another would extend eastwards through Afghanistan and Pakistan and terminate near the Indian border.
- The coastline is mostly flat, but inland and eastward the topography becomes hilly, with more forests and lakes.
- It was 4am when we pulled out of the harbour and headed eastwards towards our first dive site.
- The hospital was endowed with meadow-land stretching eastwards to the river.
- I have the misfortune of catching a number 21 service heading eastwards at least four times a month, at the exact time when all the schools are emptying.
- Geometry dominates, for the axial symmetry of the Barry building is extended eastwards.
- The coastline turns sharply eastward just north of the city, however, making a direct hit on Long Island much more likely.
- She swam eastward a dozen strokes and stood shivering on the rocky bottom, waiting for Wolf to surface.
- I think at this point she turned around and headed eastwards, towards home, towards safety.
- Another storm system is blowing eastward tonight.
Synonyms to the east, eastward, eastwards, eastwardly
noun ˈiːstwədˈis(t)wərd the eastwardThe direction or region towards the east. 朝东的方向 (或地区) the wind has come round to the eastward 风向已转为由西向东。 Example sentencesExamples - Burroughs's specter also told Ann Jr. that he had bewitched a great many soldiers to death at the eastward, when Sir Edmon was there.
- He was riding away to the eastward, as fast as he could make his horse go.
- To the eastward of the deep water berths, there is about half a mile of docks used by small oversea traffic, and the accommodation provides for vessels of 16 feet of water and 1,000 tons cargo.
- What had happened ‘at the eastward,’ and what valence did those events retain in Salem?
Derivativesadverb This was consistent with the left-drifting, receding UFOs in the video which indicated the objects were therefore drifting north eastwardly as expected. Example sentencesExamples - ‘Presently I heard a voice, saying, ‘Son of the Republic, look and learn!’ while at the same time my visitor extended her arm and forefinger eastwardly.
- He stole a horse and left the town to relocate seemingly at random to different towns along a eastwardly course.
- Burgenland, Austria's most eastwardly and poorest state, suffers from high unemployment.
Rhymesnortheastward, southeastward Definition of eastward in US English: eastwardadjectiveˈis(t)wərdˈēs(t)wərd In an easterly direction. 向东的 they followed an eastward course 他们沿着一条向东的路线行进。 Example sentencesExamples - The winds associated with this broader wake spawn a narrow eastward countercurrent that draws warm water from west to east.
- By cutting patches in the path of the beetles' eastward spread, loggers hope to stall their expansion.
- The developing El Nino continues its eastward trek in the Pacific Ocean.
- Along the storms' eastward track, avalanches killed two people on Saturday in Utah, authorities said.
- This eastward road ends at a small peaceful bay, but from this village the road turns south across the Northern Mountain Range through a rainforest.
- For a few months each year the winds blow easterly, and in those months the ancient Polynesians made eastward voyages of exploration.
- The sand forming these two shoals would ordinarily have been deposited on the East Beach during its eastward drift.
- On the other side, in East Africa, the eastward pressure of the Mid-Atlantic ridge, combined with the opposite forces generated by the impact of India, created enormous stresses.
- Distance impinged on it from the river, whose waters flowed from the eastward mountains ultimately, as the town always was more or less aware, to the sea, to the world.
- The last four hours of paddling we held an eastward course from Orcas to the mainland.
- Over that time frame, the European Union's eastward expansion will place Berlin at the heart of the continent.
- The stench drifts whenever a strong eastward wind is blowing.
- Ten minutes climbing connects you with our outward and eastward route on what a local thought was Roman road.
- Most structures can be explained by eastward retreat of the Pacific and Philippine slabs and southward retreat of the Sunda slab.
- Leaders of the former communist countries awaiting EU membership cheered Ireland's decision to endorse the EU's eastward expansion.
- The eastward side of the hurricane is causing significant flooding today across a big swathe of Georgia.
- Thus Hellenism in its eastward course and Buddhisn in its westward march came in direct contact in Gandhara art and worked out artistic sculptures and other art forms.
- Crews worked on a firebreak in a nearby canyon to try to cut off an eastward route for the fire.
- Voters in Hungary have agreed to be part of the historic eastward expansion of the European Union, strongly endorsing economic unification with their more developed neighbours to the west.
- The Great Plains, occupied by the Dakotas, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas, are cut through by the eastward flows and have become a great prairie supporting cattle ranching and wheat cultivation.
adverbˈis(t)wərdˈēs(t)wərd Toward the east. 向东 the bus rattled its way eastward Example sentencesExamples - Walking eastwards will take you back to the pier.
- The hospital was endowed with meadow-land stretching eastwards to the river.
- It was 4am when we pulled out of the harbour and headed eastwards towards our first dive site.
- So when El Niño shifts the clouds eastward, the pattern of crests and troughs in the atmosphere also shifts.
- The coastline is mostly flat, but inland and eastward the topography becomes hilly, with more forests and lakes.
- I have the misfortune of catching a number 21 service heading eastwards at least four times a month, at the exact time when all the schools are emptying.
- In the lower elevation of Pinto Basin, Joshua Tree's creosote flats sprawl eastward and forever toward Arizona.
- She swam eastward a dozen strokes and stood shivering on the rocky bottom, waiting for Wolf to surface.
- I think at this point she turned around and headed eastwards, towards home, towards safety.
- A web of rivers flowed eastwards from the Drakensberg mountains to the sea.
- The coastline turns sharply eastward just north of the city, however, making a direct hit on Long Island much more likely.
- Overtaken by events, he began pressing for guarantees that NATO would not absorb East Germany or expand eastwards.
- Another would extend eastwards through Afghanistan and Pakistan and terminate near the Indian border.
- Geometry dominates, for the axial symmetry of the Barry building is extended eastwards.
- The road snakes eastward and upward and vanishes, as great cycling roads always do, into the trees.
- Another storm system is blowing eastward tonight.
- The Antarctic Circumpolar Current, sometimes called the West Wind Drift, circles eastward around Antarctica.
- However, the general circulation in the Santa Barbara Channel tends to be cyclonic, which often advects cool surface waters eastward along the northern coasts of the Channel Islands.
- The Gorband, a shallow stream, flows eastward past dozens of small villages with no electricity or running water.
- This compositional change is associated with the incision of the rivers that flowed eastwards from the West Midlands.
Synonyms to the east, eastward, eastwards, eastwardly
nounˈis(t)wərdˈēs(t)wərd the eastwardThe direction or region toward the east. 朝东的方向 (或地区) a squall came from the eastward Example sentencesExamples - What had happened ‘at the eastward,’ and what valence did those events retain in Salem?
- To the eastward of the deep water berths, there is about half a mile of docks used by small oversea traffic, and the accommodation provides for vessels of 16 feet of water and 1,000 tons cargo.
- He was riding away to the eastward, as fast as he could make his horse go.
- Burroughs's specter also told Ann Jr. that he had bewitched a great many soldiers to death at the eastward, when Sir Edmon was there.
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