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northerly
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a northerly/southerly etc route ▪ She followed the northerly route across Spain to Bilbao. a northerly/southerly etc wind (= coming from the north etc ) ▪ A fresh northerly wind was speeding the ship southwards. ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Northerly \North"er*ly\, a. Of or pertaining to the north; toward the north, or from the north; northern.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1550s, from northern + -ly (2) on pattern of easterly , westerly .
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. situated in or oriented toward the north; "the northern suburbs"; "going in a northerly direction" [syn: northern ] coming from the north; used especially of wind; "the north wind doth blow"; "a northern snowstorm"; "the winds are northerly" [syn: ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Northerly (17 October 1996 – 9 May 2012) was an Australian racehorse who is considered arguably Australia 's best middle distance Thoroughbred horse of the early 2000s. Northerly, trained by Western Australian harness racing legend Fred Kersley , won nine ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 Facing the north; directed towards the north. 2 Located in a northern region 3 Coming from the north. adv. 1 In an northward direction or position; towards the north. 2 From the north. n. A wind blowing from the north.
Usage examples of northerly.
On the same day General Buller, who had ceased to advance to the east and retraced his steps as far as Helvetia, began his northerly movement in the direction of Lydenburg, which is nearly fifty miles to the north of the railway line.
He observed the greater phosphorescence of the clouds at his northerly point, and more than once thought he saw dark shapes outlined against them.
The sun was hiding behind an overcast of dirty-pearl clouds, and a stiff northerly wind had draped the horizon behind a curtain of tannish stonemurk.
Sibian was very close to the southern dialects of Algarvian, and not tremendously far removed from his own more northerly accent.
Garden of Hercules is the most northerly of the gardens, and is also the way to the stables, a fact most gentlemen can be relied upon to remember.
This drier, more northerly section of the heathlands, with its pure white and grey sandy soils, put the girls at a disadvantage.
I looked at the man beside me and saw that he was Russian, with the flat heavy features of its eastern peoples, a son of Irkutsk or Krasnoyarsk, more northerly.
Kadath either through the desert of carven mountains north of Inquanok, or through the more northerly reaches of repulsive Leng itself.
He estimated the height of the subcellar staircase with its two directions to the north and east, the height of the regular cellar staircase with its third northerly direction.
The railway made by him runs at present from the Caspian Sea to the Amou-Daria River, and will be continued to Bokhara, Samarkand, and Tashkend, in a northerly direction, while on the south it is to enter Persia.
The result of the studies devoted to this subject is to show that we are traveling at a speed of twelve to fifteen miles per second in a northerly direction, toward the border of the constellations Hercules and Lyra.
The mountains in the distance squat atop the Grand Tepui, plateaus piled upon plateaus, and protect the entire elevated region from the cold northerly winds.
Nevertheless, a strong northerly wind rendered our situation an extremely unpleasant one.
Other streets were sporadically dotted with pins marking suspected bookmaking locations: cashrooms in the southerly black neighborhoods, phone spots in the northerly white neighborhoods.
Volyova barked cryptic commands into her bracelet, causing a target designator to spring into place over the northerly latitudes of Resurgam.