Eastward
adverb
In the direction that is towards the east.
The sun moved slowly eastward.
Often appears as...
- move eastward
- head eastward
adjective
Moving or facing towards the east.
We continued on our eastward journey.
Often appears as...
- eastward journey
- eastward movement
adverb
In the direction that is towards the east.
The sun moved slowly eastward.
Often appears as...
- move eastward
- head eastward
adjective
Moving or facing towards the east.
We continued on our eastward journey.
Often appears as...
- eastward journey
- eastward movement
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Directional Context
Use 'eastward' to specify travel or movement in an eastern direction, rather than a point in space.
The birds are flying eastward for the winter.
Pro Tip 2/3Metaphorical Use
'Eastward' can signify progress or new beginnings, referencing the sunrise.
The team's success felt like a new eastward horizon.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Eastbound
Don't confuse 'eastward' with 'eastbound', which is often used for transport routes or roads.
The plane is heading eastward, but 'Eastbound Flight 77' is its specific route.
Pro Tip 1/3Directional Context
Use 'eastward' to specify travel or movement in an eastern direction, rather than a point in space.
The birds are flying eastward for the winter.
Pro Tip 2/3Metaphorical Use
'Eastward' can signify progress or new beginnings, referencing the sunrise.
The team's success felt like a new eastward horizon.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Eastbound
Don't confuse 'eastward' with 'eastbound', which is often used for transport routes or roads.
The plane is heading eastward, but 'Eastbound Flight 77' is its specific route.
Pro Tip 1/3Directional Context
Use 'eastward' to specify travel or movement in an eastern direction, rather than a point in space.
The birds are flying eastward for the winter.
Pro Tip 2/3Metaphorical Use
'Eastward' can signify progress or new beginnings, referencing the sunrise.
The team's success felt like a new eastward horizon.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Eastbound
Don't confuse 'eastward' with 'eastbound', which is often used for transport routes or roads.
The plane is heading eastward, but 'Eastbound Flight 77' is its specific route.
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Video examples
Safari Live - Day 340 PIPE...
she's normally up to something so we'll go and try and check her out they told me though they had her tracks this morning um on central going eastwards towards the sort of eastern boundary and then only and rusty said they were out this morning too and they had tracks on yala at north so that area there is where she spent a lot of time with
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Safari Live - Day 35 PIPE...
from there it could be in Kruger he could be anyway and difficult to say we saw with the darts that we had when he had his collars that you know he shifted and he moved and his loops as he was exploring was getting wider and wider and wider and it ended up that he was going deep into the Kruger both eastwards and southwards and
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Safari Live - Day 344 PIPE...
found what we're looking for yet but the tracks are getting fresher and fresher for a little mystical iBall I think it's a and that we're following at the moment we found that she went to chill a pan and she's now come down across the Marathi and is kind of moving eastwards in general but her tracks are getting
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Safari Live - Day 364 PIPE...
he's busy moving sort of eastwards towards vultures masala Road and in the female track crosses the molarity and that goes more in a northeastly direction towards befores of dam so he trying to just head up towards the dam at the moment to try and see if maybe both these lipids and headed up there
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How do ocean currents...
and high pressure at the poles. But as the earth spins, air moving from the equator to the North Pole is deflected eastward, and air moving back down is deflected westward. The mirror image happens in the southern hemisphere, so that the major streams of wind
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How North America got...
Now, it's 85 million years ago. The Farallon Plate becomes less steep, causing volcanism to stretch eastward and eventually cease. As the Farallon Plate subducts, it compresses North America, thrusting up mountain ranges like the Rockies,
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What happens when...
with only a very narrow seaway separating it from South America. As these plates continued to surf the Earth's magma layer far beneath the Pacific Ocean floor, the Caribbean Plate migrated eastward, and about 15 million years ago,
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Mike O'Sullivan: The end...
Another good example of how values, rather than geography, will increasingly shape destinies and alliances is Europe. During the period of globalization, one of the key phenomena was the eastward expansion of the European Union.
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The tragic myth of the...
Walking eastward, Phaethon entered the Sun God’s gleaming palace at last. Once his eyes adjusted to the brightness, he saw Helios’ radiant smile and open arms.
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Painted Wolves Ambush...
she retreats eastwards
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 340 PIPE...
she's normally up to something so we'll go and try and check her out they told me though they had her tracks this morning um on central going eastwards towards the sort of eastern boundary and then only and rusty said they were out this morning too and they had tracks on yala at north so that area there is where she spent a lot of time with
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 35 PIPE...
from there it could be in Kruger he could be anyway and difficult to say we saw with the darts that we had when he had his collars that you know he shifted and he moved and his loops as he was exploring was getting wider and wider and wider and it ended up that he was going deep into the Kruger both eastwards and southwards and
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 344 PIPE...
found what we're looking for yet but the tracks are getting fresher and fresher for a little mystical iBall I think it's a and that we're following at the moment we found that she went to chill a pan and she's now come down across the Marathi and is kind of moving eastwards in general but her tracks are getting
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 364 PIPE...
he's busy moving sort of eastwards towards vultures masala Road and in the female track crosses the molarity and that goes more in a northeastly direction towards befores of dam so he trying to just head up towards the dam at the moment to try and see if maybe both these lipids and headed up there
Video examples
How do ocean currents...
and high pressure at the poles. But as the earth spins, air moving from the equator to the North Pole is deflected eastward, and air moving back down is deflected westward. The mirror image happens in the southern hemisphere, so that the major streams of wind
Video examples
How North America got...
Now, it's 85 million years ago. The Farallon Plate becomes less steep, causing volcanism to stretch eastward and eventually cease. As the Farallon Plate subducts, it compresses North America, thrusting up mountain ranges like the Rockies,
Video examples
What happens when...
with only a very narrow seaway separating it from South America. As these plates continued to surf the Earth's magma layer far beneath the Pacific Ocean floor, the Caribbean Plate migrated eastward, and about 15 million years ago,
Video examples
Mike O'Sullivan: The end...
Another good example of how values, rather than geography, will increasingly shape destinies and alliances is Europe. During the period of globalization, one of the key phenomena was the eastward expansion of the European Union.
Video examples
The tragic myth of the...
Walking eastward, Phaethon entered the Sun God’s gleaming palace at last. Once his eyes adjusted to the brightness, he saw Helios’ radiant smile and open arms.
Video examples
Painted Wolves Ambush...
she retreats eastwards
Example 1 of 10
Quote examples
Terry Glavin
Canadian Author
Cain slew Abel. On that much the Torah and the Bible and the Qur'an agree, although in the Qur'an these first sons of Adam and Eve are Qabeel and Habeel. Cain, which is to say Qabeel, wandered eastwards from Eden to the Land of Nod with a mark of some kind on him, a curse.
Quote examples
Terry Glavin
Canadian Author
Cain slew Abel. On that much the Torah and the Bible and the Qur'an agree, although in the Qur'an these first sons of Adam and Eve are Qabeel and Habeel. Cain, which is to say Qabeel, wandered eastwards from Eden to the Land of Nod with a mark of some kind on him, a curse.
Example 1 of 1
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