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Due East

Definition: Due East

Due East

Noun

1. The cardinal compass point that is at 90 degrees.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonym: Due East

Synonym: east (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Due East

English words defined with "due east": east by north, east by south, EbN, EbS. (references)
Specialty definitions using "due east": Cardinal Winds. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Due East

DomainTitle

Books

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: Due East

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

A U.S. destroyer steams up what later became known as "Iron Bottom Sound", the body of water between Guadalcanal and Tulagi, during landings on both islands, 7 August 1942. Savo Island is in the center distance and Cape Esperance, on Guadalcanal, is at the left. Photographed from USS San Juan (CL-54) from a location approximately due east from the northern tip of Savo Island. Credit: NAVY.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Due East

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

due east

46
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Due East

Language Translations for "due east"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

stik oest, stik imod øst. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

pal oost. (various references)

   

French

  

droit vers l'est, plein est, est franc. (various references)

   

German

  

gerade oestlich, genau nach Osten. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

κατευθείαν προς τα ανατολικά, απόλυτα ανατολικής κατεύθυνσης. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

真東 , 正東 . (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

まひがし, せいとう (conquest, correct answer, due, equitable, just, justifiable, lawful, legitimate, meticulous, orthodox, political party, porcelain manufacturing, proper, reasonable, refined sugar, right, subjugation, sugar manufacture, sugar refining, traditional). (various references)

   

Manx

  

shiar yeeragh. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ueday eastay

   

Portuguese

  

tudo a este. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

лицом строго к востоку (facing due east). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

todo al este. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Due East

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: sauteed.

Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-s-t-u"

-1 letter: etudes, sauted, seated, sedate, teased.

-2 letters: adust, aedes, dates, dauts, deets, duets, eased, etude, sated, saute, setae, stade, stead, steed, suede, tease, tsade.

-3 letters: ates, date, daut, dees, deet, dues, duet, dust, ease, east, eats, etas, sade, sate, seat, seed, seta, stud, sued, suet, tads, taus, teas, teds, teed, tees, used, utas.

-4 letters: ads.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-e-e-s-t-u"
 

+1 letter: educates, exudates, unseated.

 

+2 letters: abductees, decussate, denatures, denudates, depurates, edematous, exhausted, nauseated, reductase, resaluted, sauntered, treasured, undereats.

 

+3 letters: abducentes, adulterers, adulteress, adulteries, adventures, beatitudes, butadienes, debutantes, decussated, decussates, defaulters, defeatures, departures, desquamate, deuterates, devaluates, elucidates, fecundates, mansuetude, miseducate, outdebates, outfeasted, readjusted, reductases, reeducates, repudiates, speculated, squattered, ultradense, unattested, underrates, understate, undertakes, undertaxes, unfastened, unreadiest, unsheathed, unsteadied, unsteadier, unsteadies.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Photo Album
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Anagrams
9. Bibliography


  

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