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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

north

I.noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

farther south/north etc

▪ Two miles farther south is the village of Santa Catarina.

head north/south etc

▪ We headed south towards the capital.

magnetic north

North Pole

North/South divide

▪ The North/South divide is characteristic of Britain.

north/south etc of sth

▪ a historic seaside town 99 km south of London

the east/west/north/south coast

▪ We stayed on the south coast of the island.

the north/south etc wind (=coming from the north etc)

▪ They sought shelter from the north wind.

the North/South Pole

▪ Amundsen’s expedition was the first to reach the South Pole.

true north

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

due

▪ This is one of the few Lakeland crags to face due north and receives virtually no sun whatsoever.

▪ At first the meteorologists thought that she would travel almost due north.

▪ This he grew long and combed up, due north.

▪ Fort William is due north of Glasgow but the Ben Nevis range effectively barred a direct course for the line.

▪ Then the path turns due north to the daddy of all potholes, Gaping Gill.

▪ From here head due north to monument on top of Eston Nab.

far

▪ The old Lombard aristocracy was gradually crumbling away except in the far north and the distant south.

▪ Sykes's parents are from the far north.

▪ One theory says that tigers evolved in the far north.

▪ This would require the sun to be in the far north.

▪ It really was difficult to believe that we could be so far north.

▪ We bought cartloads of parchment from Charterhouse, Oxford and even sent orders to places as far north as Norwich and Cambridge.

▪ Heading farther north, a journey along the 60 miles of coast road is rewarding for its spectacular views.

▪ Ivory was certainly carried as far north as York during Anglo-Saxon times.

further

▪ They had been driven far further north than he had expected.

▪ Heading further north, a journey along the 60 miles of coast road is rewarding for its spectacular views.

▪ We told Matata we wanted to go further north still, into the Chobe and Moremi game parks.

▪ Generally, the tigers of the south are smaller and darker than those further north.

▪ However, there was to be a significant change as the convoy journeyed further north.

▪ And eight miles further north, at Wentbridge on the A1, another motorist was killed in the fog.

▪ Thus the Highland Boundary Fault may lie further north than is shown in Fig.

▪ This is occurring spontaneously, but not at a rate which significantly affects the dense clusters further north.

■ NOUN

bank

▪ A decrepit footbridge crosses to the north bank.

▪ He led the way down the slope to the river, now frozen solid from here to the north bank.

▪ If Sunil was on the north bank, I reckon it must have been Declan.

▪ Clydebank's industrial landscape can be seen from the A814 passing the north bank of the river from Glasgow to the west.

▪ I have deliberately confined most of the detailed consideration in this study to the north bank of the Tyne.

▪ Only the off flounder left on the north bank at Portmadoc with no reports from the estuary.

▪ Then, about half way to Black Point, I'd snug down in the anchorage of Bridgemarsh on the north bank.

coast

▪ The first, titled Bosigran, covers the north coast from Wicca Pillar to Sennen.

▪ At this rate, she will never make the north coast by nightfall.

▪ At last I found the right place on an island off the north coast.

▪ Off the north coast of Siberia there may be something even bigger.

▪ Heavy industry was developed along the north coast, without any consideration of chemical, atmospheric and environmental pollution.

▪ Some of the women are lifelong volunteers, but many began to get involved once they moved to the north coast.

▪ In some places on exceptionally clear days you can almost see from the south to the north coast.

▪ From Portela, an alternative route is to go along the north coast through Porto da Cruz and Faial.

country

▪ His loneliness, far worse than anything suffered in the empty north country, overwhelmed him and became intolerable.

▪ A place far, far away in the magical north country, whence I got my nature but not my nurture.

▪ Firm C was a provincial branch practice in a north country town, carried largely by a managing clerk.

east

▪ Location Situated on the north east coast or Rhodes between Faliraki and Lindos.

▪ Schools in mid, north east and north west Essex resort to excluding pupils far less than elsewhere in the county.

▪ They are centred approximately 30 miles north east of Anglesey.

▪ After the complaint, he was summoned to London and quizzed by Mr Justice Waller, presiding judge for the north east.

▪ You find yourself on the crest of a steep ridge running gently north east towards the summit.

▪ Some states, such as that of Ceara in the north east, have taken radical steps.

▪ He is currently top of the jobs league in the north east.

end

▪ Managing nicely seemed an odd thing to do at the north end of the Reach.

▪ With his own violin in hand, Merola stood in the north end zone and played.

▪ The only access to the port is through the Gillingham Gate which is at the north end of Bridge Road.

▪ Thing is they are the north end.

▪ After a week in the swamps he left us in a camp at the north end of the Okavango.

▪ He used to spear fish for grouper at the north end, then cook his catch for tourists.

▪ There was seating for 18,000 in the north end zone.

face

▪ Sheltering the village with is impressive yet formidable presence is the north face of the Eiger.

▪ So the total effect was like bedding down for the night on the north face of Kilimanjaro.

▪ There are other groups of these huts on the north face of Beinn Tart a Mhill.

▪ An opening on El Castillo's north face leads inside to an ascending staircase.

▪ The stairs seem like the north face of the Eiger, the temperature sheer hell.

▪ Winter maintains its bitter grasp on this north face longer than any other in Britain.

pole

▪ Two people standing at distant points on the globe would have completely different ideas about where the magnetic north pole lay.

▪ Joseph Harker Is there anything intrinsically upward about the north pole?

▪ The flow of a magnetic field is taken from magnetic north pole to magnetic south pole.

▪ It's been to the magnetic and geomagnetic north poles.

▪ Beyond this point the observer would be returning to the north pole.

side

▪ She lived with the child and her father stayed with them from time to time in the flat on the north side of Glasgow.

▪ These will include the building on the north side of the street that the Sixth Street Pub once occupied.

▪ Look, sir; they're working on the north side of the nave at present.

▪ He describes himself as a white upper-middle-class guy from the north side.

▪ At the end, to the north side, the policeman led Duncan into a small suite of offices.

▪ His advisor, Paul Krausman, took him to the foothills on the north side of Pusch Ridge.

west

▪ Most yachtsmen from the south think of the wild weather as the chief drawback to cruising in the extreme north west.

▪ Schools in mid, north east and north west Essex resort to excluding pupils far less than elsewhere in the county.

▪ Hot sun, seas really warm, regular north west winds.

▪ Nagano prefecture, 400 kilometres north west of Tokyo, is a mountainous area famous for its snow and extensive skiing facilities.

▪ In February 1475 the duke's standing in the north west was strengthened by his appointment for life as sheriff of Cumberland.

▪ St Gilgen St Gilgen is set on the north west shore of the Wolfgangsee.

wind

▪ Hot winds, and the sugary savor of the air! ... The squalling north wind beats against my windows.

▪ A moaning north wind that ebbed and flowed like the sound of surf and ocean waves.

▪ The morning was cold, in the wake of the north wind that had frozen the fields since mid-March.

▪ Winter is coming on the north wind, and winter in the Maine woods comes to stay for six months.

▪ Pine trees, swayed by the north wind, whisper; the bracken sighs.

▪ He didn't even seem to be aware that a chill north wind was blowing.

▪ Ships docking at Amnisos could well have found themselves trapped there by a north wind, just as Odysseus claimed he was.

■ VERB

head

▪ Our alternative is to head north, to the coast.

▪ C., radiant with the autumn light, and headed north up into the hills.

▪ They headed north, and after a few minutes she began to think she might actually survive.

▪ He knew the time had come to head directly north along the western coast and investigate Cape Wrath at last.

▪ Without really being conscious of what I was doing, I ended up heading roughly north.

▪ She'd already phoned home to check her answering-machine for messages, now she was free to head north.

lie

▪ All these lands lie to the north of the Empire, beyond the land of Kislev.

▪ Although the name Savoy later developed out of Sapaudia, the area in question seems to have lain to the north of Geneva.

▪ This uneasy county lies north of Dublin and south of the Border.

▪ The only solution lies north of the Border - with you.

▪ Gloucester's major acquisitions in the reshuffle of 1471 lay in the north.

▪ Pentonville, north London suburb, lying just to the north of Clerkenwell.

▪ Haddo House and its 180 acres of gardens lies about 20 miles north of Aberdeen.

live

▪ We lived in Highgate, north London.

▪ Everybody lives on either the north side, the south side or the west side, the east side.

▪ If you live north of Watford, give it a try.

▪ Most are living in north London, on income support and with help from Kurdish groups.

▪ They always seem to live somewhere in the north as typified by this quotation from the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.

▪ He claimed that some were the work of Edward Prince, an artist who lived in the north of the city.

move

▪ I move north when they move south.

▪ Some of the women are lifelong volunteers, but many began to get involved once they moved to the north coast.

▪ Accept a £12m offer to move Wimbledon north to merge with a League club who would take over the Premier League franchise.

▪ A new report suggests the commercial traffic in death and destruction is moving from south to north.

▪ It moved over to the north before it reached the camp, so that we never heard much of the thunder.

▪ But her generation and its immediate elders were beginning to move north.

▪ James appointed new guardians with wider powers on each side of the Border, and troops were moved north.

▪ With each warm spell tundra and forest edges have moved north, only to be forced south again during cooler spells.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

due north/south/east/west

▪ At noon, the storm was 150 miles due east of New York City.

▪ As we were heading due north, we would remain to the right, or east, of that squiggle.

▪ Beehive, another sulfide edifice, is a five-minute submersible ride due west of Moose.

▪ Fort William is due north of Glasgow but the Ben Nevis range effectively barred a direct course for the line.

▪ Jouctas is also clearly seen, to due south, from the ancient harbor of Knossos.

▪ The direction is there, she said when she came down, and she pointed due west.

▪ The main track on which they were travelling led due west for a while and then turned slightly north.

▪ The road into Mountain Province, due east of Tamarong, zigzagged along a sharp ridge high above the rice terraces.

▪ This he grew long and combed up, due north.

north of Watford

the North Pole

the far north/south etc

▪ I wanted to go to Sunderland because it is in my own region, the far north.

▪ It will become windy in the far north and west, and remain warm in the south.

▪ The ancient realm of Solland in the far south and Drakwald in the north no longer exist and consequently have no counts.

▪ The climatic extremes of the far north mean that forests take a long time to regenerate.

▪ The decline of the maple began in 1912, in Pennsylvania, and reached the far north in 1932.

▪ The underground realm was connected by tunnels stretching from the far north to the south beyond the Old World itself.

▪ This is the largest gallery and the farthest South found in the Survey.

▪ This would require the sun to be in the far north.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

▪ Further to the north you take the ferry across from East to West Cowes to avoid a big detour inland via Newport.

▪ In the early 1970s he was editor of the Provisional republican newspaper in the north, Republican News.

▪ It has large and influential cereals and sugar barons in the north, but it has many small livestock farmers as well.

▪ She came back to the north with him after that and they lived together again for a time.

▪ There was a slight wind coming from the north, and I turned into it.

II.adjective