| 单词 | east-flowing |
| 释义 | > as lemmaseast-flowing C1. Uses of the adverb, or the noun used with adverbial force, preceding present and past participles to form adjectives, as east-aspected, east-facing, east-flowing, etc. ΚΠ 1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 19 By the proportion of the East surprised Gades..diuers haue tried..to configurate a twinlike image of it. 1706 G. London & H. Wise Retir'd Gard'ner I. i. xii. 53 Some peaches on an East-aspected Wall in the North of England. 1754 J. Justice Scots Gardiners Director 68 The East aspected Wall..should be ten Feet high, and faced with Bricks. 1847 Hogg's Weekly Instructor 2 Jan. 302/1 We reached the banks of the Is, an east-flowing tributary of the Tura. 1874 London, Edinb., & Dublin Philos. Mag. 4th Ser. 47 176 Only a small portion of the east-directed current passes Cape Finisterre unhindered. 1917 G. Hughes Souls 56 Petals of peach-bloom fell Fluttering on the wings, Light wings of East-blown winds. 1989 L. A. Murray in Poetry Austral. 120 4 An east-running valley where two hooded creeks make junction. 2003 P. H. Wetmore et al. in S. E. Johnson Tectonic Evol. Northwestern Mexico 112/2 Combined with the observation of east-directed thrusting along the eastern margin of the Guerrero superterrane. 2007 Climber Apr. 64/2 The fine east-facing black slab set in a sheltered zawn was, to our general consternation, covered in staples. < as lemmas |
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