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northeast
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Northeast \North`east"\, adv. Toward the northeast.
Northeast \North`east"\, n. The point between the north and east, at an equal distance from each; the northeast part or region.
Northeast \North`east"\, a. Of or pertaining to the northeast; proceeding toward the northeast, or coming from that point; as, a northeast course; a northeast wind.
Northeast passage, a passage or communication by sea between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans along the north coast of Asia.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. 1 Towards the northeast; northeastward. 2 Of or pertaining to the northeast; northeastern. 3 From the northwest, northwesterly n. The compass point halfway between north and east, specifically 45°, abbreviated as NE.
WordNet
n. the compass point midway between north and east; at 45 degrees [syn: nor'-east, NE]
the northeastern region of the United States [syn: northeastern United States]
adv. to, toward, or in the northeast [syn: north-east, nor'-east]
adj. situated in or oriented toward the northeast; "the northeasterly part of the island" [syn: northeastern, northeasterly]
coming from the northeast; "northeasterly winds" [syn: northeasterly]
Gazetteer
Wikipedia
Northeast is a compass point.
Northeast, north-east, north east, northeastern or north-eastern or north eastern may also refer to:
- Northeast (direction), an intercardinal direction
The Northeast (Đông Bắc) is the region at the north of the Red River Delta, Vietnam. Northeast called to distinguish them from the Northwest, but it's actually in the north and northeast of Hanoi, wider than Việt Bắc. The northeast is one of three sub-regions of northern Vietnam (2 other sub-region is the Northwest and the Red River Delta). Sometimes the Northeast, including the Red River Delta.
Northeast is a 2005 Argentina-French drama- thriller film directed by Juan Diego Solanas. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival.
Usage examples of "northeast".
The following day the Abyssinian soldiers were surprised to receive an order which turned their faces from the northeast to the south.
Adams ON THE CRYSTAL-CLEAR MORNING of Tuesday, June 17, 1788, the keeper of the Boston lighthouse, Thomas Knox, sighted the Lucretia making good speed on the northeast horizon, and by prearranged plan he set in motion a welcome home such as John Adams had never imagined.
He rented a car and drove northeast for two hours, into the heart of the Allegheny Mountains.
His earliest remains have come, so far, from much the same African latitude: a fossilized skull and some other fragments from a Middle Stone Age site near Khartoum in the Sudan, and another skull and some bones from beneath thick clay at Asselar, some two hundred miles northeast of Timbuktu in the western Sudan.
Attacks by bees in many parts of the country, though principally in the northeast, north-mid-central area and the northwest.
According to the Hammond Atlas, in Brazil it is found northeast of Rio de Janeiro and Belo Horizonte.
The USS Billfish cruised slowly northeast at four knots, bare steerage way, at a depth of 658 feet.
Riqim, on the northeast continent, and back to the Mediro, a rocky plateau far inland from the southernmost canebrakes of the great south continent.
There are indications of a number of courts inclosed by large and small clusters of rooms, very irregularly disposed, but with a general trend towards the northeast, being roughly parallel with the mesa edge.
One had collapsed in its entirety, the one that Buford pointed out had once housed the finest cryology unit in the northeast.
The main river now flanked the east side of Dayton, having changed course several miles to the northeast in a great, sudden wrench which heaved up multicolored layers of rock and toppled many of the buildings in downtown Dayton.
Northeast corner of the Lodge, he descends as a Fellow-Craft into the body of the brethren, and assumes the active duties of a good Mason.
Shortly thereafter, the heavy engines began to turn the paddles and the Bristan trader chugged northeast across an almost glassy sea.
He ordered all American Airlines flights in the Northeast that had not taken off to remain on the ground.
During the course of his investigations, Ribeiro learned that flints bearing signs of human work were being found in Tertiary beds between Canergado and Alemquer, two villages in the basin of the Tagus River northeast of Lisbon.