East vs Easy - What's the difference?
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One of the four principal compass points, specifically 90°, conventionally directed to the right on maps; the direction of the rising sun at an equinox.
* 1895 , , Jude the Obscure — In a few hours the birds come to it from all points of the compass – east, west, north, and south...
Situated or lying in or towards the east; eastward.
(meteorology) wind from the east
Of or pertaining to the east; eastern.
From the East; oriental.
towards the east; eastwards
Comfortable; at ease.
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, title= Causing ease; giving comfort, or freedom from care or labour.
Free from constraint, harshness, or formality; unconstrained; smooth.
* Alexander Pope
(informal, pejorative, of a person) Consenting readily to sex.
Not making resistance or showing unwillingness; tractable; yielding; compliant.
* Dryden
* Sir Walter Scott
Not straitened as to money matters; opposed to tight.
In a relaxed or casual manner
In a manner without strictness or harshness.
Used an intensifier for large magnitudes.
Not difficult, not hard. (rfex)
Something that is easy
to easy-oar (stop rowing)
As a proper noun east
is (personification ) the wind from the east.As an adjective easy is
comfortable; at ease.As an adverb easy is
in a relaxed or casual manner.As a noun easy is
something that is easy.As a verb easy is
to easy-oar (stop rowing).east
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(wikipedia east)Noun
Coordinate terms
* (compass point) north, south, westDerived terms
(terms derived from east) * east by north * east by south * easterliness * easterly * eastern * easterner * easting * eastward * eastwardly * eastwards * northeast * north-northeast * southeast * south-southeastAdjective
(-)Synonyms
* (situated or lying in or towards the east) eastward * easterly * (of or pertaining to the east) eastern * (from the East) orientalAntonyms
* (situated or lying in or towards the east) westward * westerly * (of or pertaining to the east) westernAdverb
(-)Synonyms
* (towards the east) eastwardsAntonyms
* (towards the east) west. westwardsAnagrams
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Adjective
(er)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=“[…] She takes the whole thing with desperate seriousness. But the others are all easy and jovial—thinking about the good fare that is soon to be eaten, about the hired fly, about anything.”}}
A new prescription, passage=As the world's drug habit shows, governments are failing in their quest to monitor every London window-box and Andean hillside for banned plants. But even that Sisyphean task looks easy next to the fight against synthetic drugs. No sooner has a drug been blacklisted than chemists adjust their recipe and start churning out a subtly different one.}}
- Rich people live in easy circumstances.
- an easy chair
- easy''' manners; an '''easy style
- the easy vigour of a line
- He gained their easy hearts.
- He is too tyrannical to be an easy monarch.
- The market is easy .