WEST

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west I. substantiv

1. vest, apus, occident, soare-apune.

2. vânt de apus / vest.

3. West Occident.

4. (amer.) the West statele apusene (la apus de Mississippi);

the Far West Vestul Îndepărtat, statele din Munţii Stâncoşi.

west II. adjectiv

apusean, occidental, vestic, de vest;

west country partea apuseană/ de vest a ţării.

west III. adverb

spre vest;

(sl.) to go west da ortul popii;

(sl.) gone west răposat.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

Who is Cadogan West, and what is he to Mycroft?

(His Last Bow, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"Which road leads to the Wicked Witch of the West?" asked Dorothy.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, de L. Frank Baum)

You can do your part out West, I can do mine here, and both be happy hoping for the best, and leaving the future to be as God wills.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

“I am for west,” remarked the plain-clothes man.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“There are six men in London that would hengage to walk round the best twelve that hever came from the west.”

(Rodney Stone, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

That morning we mapped out a small portion of the plateau, avoiding the swamp of the pterodactyls, and keeping to the east of our brook instead of to the west.

(The Lost World, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The wind was full west, and by six in the evening I computed I had gone eastward at least eighteen leagues; when I spied a very small island about half a league off, which I soon reached.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)

The scientists say that if their analysis is correct, it could mean that a large reservoir of methane thought to lie under the vast West Antarctic Ice Sheet — which encompasses 25.4 million cubic kilometers (6.1 million cubic miles) of ice — is less likely to be released into the atmosphere.

(Methane-eating bacteria in lake deep beneath Antarctic ice sheet may reduce greenhouse gas emissions, National Science Foundation)

Through such country did the party ride for eight or it might be nine miles, until the sun began to slope down in the west and their shadows to stream down the road in front of them.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Tavistock itself lies two miles to the west, while across the moor, also about two miles distant, is the larger training establishment of Mapleton, which belongs to Lord Backwater, and is managed by Silas Brown.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

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