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middle
Noun
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The place that is between two things; the place that is halfway between two ends of something.
Cut the wood exactly in the middle to get two pieces of equal size.
The middle of the three books is the one you want.
east
Noun
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The east is a place that is closer to where the sun rises than another place.
My parents live in the east.
east
Preposition
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One of the four compass directions: 90º clockwise from north. The sun rises in the east.
I drove east from Chicago.
and
Conjunction
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You use and to talk about two things at once.
I like singing and reading.
Mary and Jane went on a holiday together.
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You use and when you are listing a few things and you are now on your last item of the list.
I like singing, reading, cycling and playing soccer.
I used to like this girl from my class as she is pretty, gentle and caring.
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And is used when you are putting two sentences together.
She came into the store, shouted at the cashier, and left.
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Used to show what happened after something else.
The alarm went off and I woke up.
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And is used to join certain numbers together.
Two hundred and thirty-five people went missing after the earthquake.
north
Noun
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North is the direction towards the top of the Earth, opposite to south; If you are looking north, the sun sets on your left.
Canada is the biggest country in North America.
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North is the end of a magnet that points north.
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The north is the area of land north of the speaker; Also the Arctic.
north
Preposition
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In the direction north; towards the north
The place you want is two miles north of here.
It's colder here because we're further north.
Africa
Proper noun
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Africa is the continent that is south of Europe, east of the Atlantic Ocean, west of the Indian Ocean and north of Antarctica.
Africa is the world's second-largest and second most-populous continent, after Asia.
region
Noun
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A region is an area of land or of the body.
The fishing problems have been happening only in the Atlantic coast region.
The southern regions of Japan are warm and tropical.
If we do an operation in this region of the brain, you may lose your ability to speak.
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A region is any connected part of a space or surface. This definition is useful in geometry.
In Euclidean space, a convex set is a region which has a geometric definition.