Initialism vs East - What's the difference?
initialism | east |
A term formed from the initial letter or letters of several words or parts of words, but which is itself pronounced letter by letter.
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
As a noun initialism
is a term formed from the initial letter or letters of several words or parts of words, but which is itself pronounced letter by letter.As a proper noun east is
(personification ) the wind from the east.initialism
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(wikipedia initialism) (en noun)- BBC is an initialism for British Broadcasting Corporation.