East

adv. toward the east

adj. of the east; situated in the east

n. direction from which the sun rises, direction opposite west on a compass

For the cardinal direction see East, for other uses see East (disambiguation) 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 facilities were to be constructed by 2003, and tokamak assembly to take place from 2003 through 2005.
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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 eōs. Eostre, a Germanic goddess of dawn, might have been a personification of both dawn and the cardinal point.By convention, an ordinary terrestrial map is oriented so the right side is east. This convention dates from the Renaissance. Many medieval maps were oriented with the Orient (the East) east at the top, which is the source of the the verb .
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Noun
1. the countries of Asia
(synonym) Orient
(hypernym) Asia
(part-meronym) Far East
(attribute) eastern
2. the region of the United States lying north of the Ohio River and east of the Mississippi River
(synonym) eastern United States
(hypernym) geographical area, geographic area, geographical region, geographic region
(part-holonym) United States, United States of America, America, US, U.S., USA, U.S.A.
(part-meronym) Southeast, southeastern United States
(attribute) eastern

Noun
1. the cardinal compass point that is at 90 degrees
(synonym) due east, E
(hypernym) cardinal compass point
Adjective
1. situated in or facing or moving toward the east
(antonym) west
(similar) eastbound, eastward
Adverb
1. to, toward, or in the east; "we travelled east for several miles"

(v. i.)
To move toward the east; to veer from the north or south toward the east; to orientate.
  

(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.
  

(n.)
The eastern parts of the earth; the regions or countries which lie east of Europe; the orient. In this indefinite sense, the word is applied to Asia Minor, Syria, Chaldea, Persia, India, China, etc.; as, the riches of the East; the diamonds and pearls of the East; the kings of the East.
  

(n.)
Formerly, the part of the United States east of the Alleghany Mountains, esp. the Eastern, or New England, States; now, commonly, the whole region east of the Mississippi River, esp. that which is north of Maryland and the Ohio River; -- usually with the definite article; as, the commerce of the East is not independent of the agriculture of the West.
  

(adv.)
Eastward.
  

(a.)
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.
  

East [from Old English est; cf Latin aurora, Greek auos dawn] One of the four quarters of the globe, different quarters being considered sacred in archaic religio-philosophy, sometimes said to be the place whence wisdom comes: there are the wise men from the East, the star in the East; Christian churches are orientated with the altar to the east. It is the place of the rising sun, and that part of the celestial equator which the ecliptic intersects at the spring equinox. Hence, as European symbology goes back to a time when the equinox was in Taurus, its corresponding figure among the four sacred animals is the bull.