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Dictionary entry overview: What does EST mean?
• EST (noun)
The noun EST has 1 sense:
1. standard time in the 5th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 75th meridian; used in the eastern United States
Familiarity information: EST used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Standard time in the 5th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 75th meridian; used in the eastern United States
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Synonyms:
Eastern Standard Time; Eastern Time; EST
Hypernyms ("EST" is a kind of...):
civil time; local time; standard time (the official time in a local region (adjusted for location around the Earth); established by law or custom)
Context examples
"C'est la ma gouverante!" said she, pointing to me, and addressing her nurse; who answered—Mais oui, certainement.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Mon coeur est toujours a toi.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
On Monday, Nov. 14, the moon is at perigee at 6:22 a.m. EST and “opposite” the sun for the full moon at 8:52 a.m. EST (after moonset for most of the US).
(November Supermoon a Spectacular Sight, NASA)
Asteroid 2002 AJ129 will make a close approach to Earth on Feb. 4, 2018 at 1:30 p.m. PST (4:30 p.m. EST / 21:30 UTC).
(Asteroid 2002 AJ129 to Fly Safely Past Earth February 4, NASA)
“‘_L’homme c’est rien—l’œuvre c’est tout_,’ as Gustave Flaubert wrote to George Sand.”
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Mission controllers at ESA's mission operations center in Darmstadt, Germany, received a signal confirming that the Philae lander had touched down on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on Wednesday, Nov. 12, just after 8 a.m. PST/11 a.m. EST.
(Rosetta's 'Philae' Makes Historic First Landing on a Comet, NASA)
The lander touched down Monday, Nov. 26, near Mars' equator on the western side of a flat, smooth expanse of lava called Elysium Planitia, with a signal affirming a completed landing sequence at 11:52:59 a.m. PST (2:52:59 p.m. EST).
(NASA InSight Lander Arrives on Martian Surface, NASA)
Such sayings exist in numerous languages: other examples in English include "Grape or grain, but never the twain”, while Germans claim “Wein auf Bier, das rat’ ich Dir—Bier auf Wein, das lass’ sein” and the French say “Bière sur vin est venin, vin sur bière est belle manière”.###!!!###
(Wine before beer, or beer before wine? Either way, you’ll be hungover, University of Cambridge)
“_Magna est veritas sed rara_, which means in the Latin tongue that archers are all honorable men. I come to you seeking knowledge, for it is my trade to learn.”
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Having removed this impediment, and lifted certain silvery envelopes of tissue paper, she merely exclaimed—"Oh ciel! Que c'est beau!" and then remained absorbed in ecstatic contemplation.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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