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Definition: Due East |
Due EastNoun1. The cardinal compass point that is at 90 degrees. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: Due EastSynonym: east (n). (additional references) |
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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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & 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. |
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| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
due east | 46 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 tudo a este. (various references) лицом строго к востоку (facing due east). (various references) todo al este. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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. | |
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