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meaning - What does it mean for wind to blow due north? - English . . . The word ‘due’ in this context would means a person or thing was traveling in the direction indicated So a person traveling to the north from the south is heading due north, and a wind blowing due north is blowing from south to north
North of lt; lt;number gt; gt; - English Language Learners Stack Exchange English uses directions in peculiar ways in a few contexts: bigger, as in north of xxx, as you used; and deteriorating or falling apart, particularly a situation, as in "the entire company is going south", to list a couple I can't think of any non-standard usages of east or west
Whats the difference between up that street and down that street? Just as you might hear "up north" or "down south" due to the traditional orientation of maps, you might (in the US at least) hear "out west" or "back east", for obvious historical reasons, but this probably wouldn't work in other locations (Though I have also heard "out west" from Australians, so at least that one seems to have similar usage )
What is the difference between Suggest and Recommend? @Jay: I seriously doubt many if any native speakers think the choice between suggest and recommend makes any difference when proposing a choice of movie And even if the speaker thought he was conveying a difference, he'd probably be wasting his time - if the addressee doesn't recognize the same distinction, no distinction has in fact been made
long due vs long overdue - English Language Learners Stack Exchange I think "long overdue" is stronger than "long due" in the following sense: "long due" suggests that this something is beyond schedule, but in a way that is almost acceptable "Long overdue", on the other hand, means that this something is so much beyond the deadline that all hopes have been lost, and your landlord will have to litigate, and you had better worry Also, "long overdue" seems to
word request - English Language Learners Stack Exchange The secret's in the hyphenation According to the Oxford Dictionary, make-up meaning 4 is (North American count noun) A supplementary test or assignment given to a student who missed or failed the original one ‘I would have flunked the course but she let me write a make-up’ This tallies with my understanding, that a make-up is equivalent to the British English resit: you fail an exam and
Eastward - Westward - English Language Learners Stack Exchange 1 As adverbs, eastward, westward, northward, southward etc as defined by [Merriam-Webster] simply mean towards the east west north south So the two forms have exactly the same meaning and are interchangeable