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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
hemisphere
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
northern hemisphere
southern hemisphere
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
cerebral
▪ These neutrons are setting off alarms all round your cerebral hemispheres.
▪ But no-the two cerebral hemispheres are actually quite asymmetric in various ways.
left
▪ Disconnection studies in split-brain patients supported this conclusion, showing that the left hemisphere is sufficient for language.
▪ In split-brain patients it has been shown that the left hemisphere retains language function, the right does not.
▪ Not only is the left hemisphere normally necessary for language, it is also sufficient.
▪ This suggests that verbal ability is dominant in the left hemisphere and spatial ability is dominant in the right hemisphere.
▪ The left hemisphere is responsible for the construction of spoken language, but the right contributes to its intended meaning.
▪ The left hemisphere is not well equipped to deal with empty spaces.
▪ Or since these desirable states can be put into words, do they belong only to the left hemisphere?.
northern
▪ Atmospheric carbon dioxide in the northern hemisphere is increasing measurably.
▪ All of the eruptions except Krakatoa happened in the northern hemisphere, and together they show a clear pattern of behaviour.
▪ The timing of events in the systems described below is applicable to the calender of the northern hemisphere.
▪ Brown and McCormick's skuas and Wilson's petrels fly as far as temperate latitudes of the northern hemisphere.
▪ Levels in the northern hemisphere were 9 percent below normal in December 1992 and 11-12 percent below normal in April.
▪ Winds in the northern hemisphere circulate anti-clockwise around low pressure.
▪ This pattern is repeated in the route of the sun's progress in the northern hemisphere today.
right
▪ This suggests that verbal ability is dominant in the left hemisphere and spatial ability is dominant in the right hemisphere.
▪ The dot location task, which involves predominantly the right hemisphere, was expected to remain unaffected.
▪ The right hemisphere of his brain could not articulate what it registered.
▪ The right hemisphere is largely non-verbal, though right-sided speech centres are better developed in women than in men.
▪ He believes perinatal trauma to be a likely contributing factor, because this in theory could produce damage to the right hemisphere.
▪ One perplexing feature of this conclusion is that since the late nineteenth century far fewer children with right hemisphere lesions are aphasic.
▪ It is difficult to reconcile such findings with Ornstein's claim that intuitive non-logical thinking is a function of the right hemisphere.
▪ Damage to the corresponding part of the right hemisphere had no effect on speech.
southern
▪ In the southern hemisphere, however, few cemeteries can match La Recoleta in Buenos Aires.
▪ There are eighteen species of penguin worldwide, all confined to the southern hemisphere.
▪ Alerce is one of the longest lived trees in the southern hemisphere with some specimens believed to be over 4000 years old.
▪ Had early explorers come from the southern hemisphere, would our maps appear upside down?
▪ Other diving birds, including ocean-going penguin species in the southern hemisphere, can also sit out storms.
▪ Once into the southern hemisphere the lines of latitude would become shorter and finally vanish at the south pole.
▪ In the southern hemisphere shadows travel anti-clockwise, at least as we see it.
western
▪ This requirement to keep nuclear weapons out of the southern part of the western hemisphere is reinforced by Protocol 11 of the treaty.
▪ Both measures limited the employment of troops to the Western hemisphere.
▪ The Western hemisphere would soon be in range of and vulnerable to Soviet intercontinental ballistic missiles, carrying megaton warheads.
▪ The 625-strong observer force, which will have a six-month renewable mandate, is the first in the Western hemisphere.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the Western Hemisphere
the northern hemisphere
the southern hemisphere
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Damage to the corresponding part of the right hemisphere had no effect on speech.
▪ Historically, clinical evidence has been the greatest source of research into differences between the hemispheres.
▪ It took the form of a hemisphere, with a face carved on the inner surface.
▪ It was bitterly cold inside the aluminium hemisphere.
▪ Levels in the northern hemisphere were 9 percent below normal in December 1992 and 11-12 percent below normal in April.
▪ Voice over Not only birds from the chilly Northern hemisphere live at Slimbridge.
▪ We think the inhibition is part of an inhibitory surround that helps focus neural activity in the dominant hemisphere.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hemisphere

Hemisphere \Hem"i*sphere\, n. [L. hemisphaerium, Gr. ?; ? half = ? sphere: cf. F. h['e]misph[`e]re. See Hemi-, and Sphere.]

  1. A half sphere; one half of a sphere or globe, when divided by a plane passing through its center.

  2. Half of the terrestrial globe, or a projection of the same in a map or picture.

  3. The people who inhabit a hemisphere.

    He died . . . mourned by a hemisphere.
    --J. P. Peters.

    Cerebral hemispheres. (Anat.) See Brain.

    Magdeburg hemispheres (Physics), two hemispherical cups forming, when placed together, a cavity from which the air can be withdrawn by an air pump; -- used to illustrate the pressure of the air. So called because invented by Otto von Guericke at Magdeburg.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
hemisphere

late 14c., hemysperie, in reference to the celestial sphere, from Latin hemisphaerium, from Greek hemisphairion, from hemi- "half" (see hemi-) + sphaira "sphere" (see sphere). Spelling reformed 16c. Of the Earth, from 1550s; of the brain, 1804.

Wiktionary
hemisphere

n. 1 (context astronomy astrology English) Half of the celestial sphere, as divided by either the ecliptic or the celestial equator (from 14th c.). 2 (context figuratively English) A realm or domain of activity (1503). 3 (context geography English) Half of the Earth, such as the Northern Hemisphere, Southern Hemisphere, Western Hemisphere or Eastern Hemisphere, Land Hemisphere, Water Hemisphere etc. (1550s). 4 (context geometry English) Any half-sphere, formed by a plane intersecting the center of a sphere. (1580s). 5 (context cartography English) A map or projection of a celestial or terrestrial hemisphere (1706). 6 (context anatomy English) Either of the two halves of the cerebrum. (1804).

WordNet
hemisphere
  1. n. half of the terrestrial globe

  2. half of a sphere

  3. either half of the cerebrum [syn: cerebral hemisphere]

Wikipedia
Hemisphere

Hemisphere may refer to:

As half of the Earth:

  • a hemisphere of the Earth
  • Any half of the (Earth-centered), celestial sphere
  • cultural hemisphere

As half of the brain:

  • Cerebral hemisphere, a division of the cerebrum
  • Half of the cerebellum, a smaller part of the brain
Hemisphere (Paradis)

"Hémisphère" is the second 12" release by Parisian duo Paradis and was the third release on Tim Sweeney's Beats In Space Records. The 12" features two tracks, on side (a) "Hémisphère" and on side (b) "Je m’ennuie". The track "Hémisphère" features a beautifully crafted upbeat house pop combination unique to Paradis. "Je m’ennuie" on the other hand incorporates Paradis' own tailored sound but incorporates a brooding bassline throughout. Both tracks feature vocals which are thought to be sung by the duo themselves.

Usage examples of "hemisphere".

Americas is only a sanctimonious paraphrase for a policy on the part of this country of political aggrandizement in the Western hemisphere.

The relative decline in politico-economic influence of the Northern Hemisphere during the later twentieth century, the shift of civilized dominance to a Southeast Asia-Indian Ocean region with more resources, did not, as alarmists at the time predicted, spell the end of Western civilization.

Queensland Museum in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, where he pursues a vigorous research program in the biogeography of southern hemisphere dinosaurs.

The native, first placing a calabash beneath the nose, as it were, of his curious-looking log-steed, for the purpose of receiving the grated fragments as they fall, mounts astride of it as if it were a hobby-horse, and twirling the inside of his hemispheres of cocoanut around the sharp teeth of the mother-of-pearl shell, the pure white meat falls in snowy showers into the receptacle provided.

Spain began to dispute with Portugal the possession of the Moluccas, as being situated within the hemisphere which had been allotted to them by the bull of Pope Alexander VI, dated the 4th of July 1493.

She breathed through the top of her head and felt the cool relaxation come up from the smooth functionings of the diencephalon, the oldest part of the brain, which sat on the end of the spinal cord like a ball joint and let the hemispheres of the cerebrum tilt crazily about it while itself remaining still.

At this point the continents split and rapidly separated east and west, leaving a green ocean between their land legs, dotted with several large islands and driblets of isles in the southern hemisphere.

Ahead, he could see the spectacular Prism Palace composed of hemispheres and ellipsoids, spires, balconies, and arched bridges.

This passage of the Sun into Taurus, whose attributes he assumes on his return from the lower hemisphere or the shades, is marked by the rising in the evening of the Wolf and the Centaur, and by the heliacal setting of Orion, called the Star of Horus, and which thenceforward is in conjunction with the Sun of Spring, in his triumph over the darkness or Typhon.

They bend him back over a limestone altar, fit a crystal skull over his head, securing the two hemispheres back and front with crystal screws.

Now that they were being raised, it was clear that this barrier had helped negate the repulsive force, for the hemispheres simply could not be brought within fifty feet of each other.

Night Crew, one of the hemispheres had been dragged up the spiral ramp and over the lip of the pit.

The lightning was striking even more frequently than before, and now both hemispheres were exposed, Nick could see a pattern.

He dreamed of the two silver hemispheres, and his Lightning Farm that was being set up across the Wall.

He saw the hemispheres absorbing power from a thousand lightning strikes and, as they drew power, overcoming the force that kept them apart.