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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
south
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.
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
South Pole
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.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
deep
▪ It is interesting that the present recession is much deeper in the south than in the north.
▪ He wants to make the handover in the deep south of Thuringia, up near the Bavarian border.
due
▪ The footpath is now pointing due south and the panorama is magnificent, with rock faces rising almost vertically from the lake.
▪ Jouctas is also clearly seen, to due south, from the ancient harbor of Knossos.
▪ Observations: The slab dries very quickly and faces virtually due south, offering all year round climbing possibility.
▪ It was also very hot, for the drawing room faced due south and the hot sun beat on the glass.
far
▪ The corridor of land administered by the League extended as far south as Cracow, Göttingen and Cologne.
▪ Workers refuse to hire on for less, because cost of living is higher on the border than farther south.
▪ May I suggest that you include the rural parishes in Wyre District as far south as Garstang in this consultation.
▪ Excavations south of the fort have shown the existence of contemporary timber buildings as far south as Blackfriars Street.
▪ There were archers from all parts of the country, from the north and as far south as Hampshire.
further
▪ How does farming on the north eastern lowlands of Buchan differ from that further south in Lothian and Fife?
▪ The turbidite sandstones further south, represented by the Bude and Crackington Formations in Devon, appear less promising.
▪ Then the forces of the Asturian kings pushed further south, founding states in Leon, Castile and Burgos.
▪ Yellow and red sand north of Sézanne, giving away sandstone with high iron levels further south.
head
▪ From the car park turn right and head south.
▪ My impulse was to turn the car around and head south.
▪ From Watersmeet take the path signed Hillsford Bridge and head south on the east of the river.
▪ Start an afternoon's walk from the town centre and head south to the River Brue and Kennard Moor.
■ VERB
move
▪ If the workforce doesn't keep in line, their jobs begin to move south.
▪ Maatouk moved to the south with his parents and siblings.
▪ We hope within a few weeks to move the pair of south bound stops on Clerk Street a little to the north.
▪ A new report suggests the commercial traffic in death and destruction is moving from south to north.
▪ I move north when they move south.
▪ As it moved south it took a wide variety of other forms from Kurdish to Hindi. 2.
▪ Duncan lay still, confused and wondering why the Army had moved in from the south.
▪ Mr Nujoma himself was on the border when the incursions began and is suspected of having ordered his men to move south.
turn
▪ Mr. Lang I turn to south Ayrshire.
▪ At West End I turned north, not south, and started jogging again.
▪ The breakthrough was a squat we turned over on the south coast, two years back.
▪ As we turned south the crumbled remains of St Catherine's Castle could be seen.
▪ Fishing has been patchy due to the cool temperatures but anglers expect it to get better when the winds turn south westerly.
▪ Then they should turn south past Forteviot and march against us.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
darkest Africa/South America etc
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.
the South
the South Pole
the South of France
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
▪ And just as many people from the south moved north.
▪ Local flood authorities began bracing for the 1975 summer flood immediately after learning of the heavy rains to the south.
▪ Only for taking coal from the hills in the south to the power station just over the ridge.
▪ The socially mixed community now includes artists from Warsaw, doctors from the south, redundant miners and former prisoners.
▪ The specimen is believed to be a rough ground record for the south west.
▪ To the south is the great bulk of Cadair Idris.
II.adjective
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.
the South
the South Pole
the South of France
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Our office is located on the south side of the street.
III.adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
drive
▪ But many settlers drove south rather than spend the night underground.
▪ Jeri and I got back in the car and drove south, past shrimp stands and abandoned old sugar mills.
▪ Its brilliant white towers can be seen from I-19 as you drive south.
▪ Drive south on I-19 to exit 19, turn west and follow the signs.
▪ Drive south half a mile to Triunfo Canyon Road and turn right.
▪ I drove south into Colorado during the night, and six or more thunderstorms followed me.
▪ They drove south out of Denton into deep-green country.
go
▪ Go south, to Naples and Sicily, and it's another story.
▪ If so, go south about three miles to Bunker Hill Road.
▪ Nobody is saying the 2000 season wouldn't have gone south with Ausmus.
▪ Motorola stock has been going south since it reached a record 82 1 / 2 last Sept. 29.
▪ He went south toward Calle Ocho, the main drag of Little Havana.
▪ His playing time evaporated until just before the break and his numbers also went south.
▪ If the mother said go north, her child went south.
head
▪ In most cases, though, prices head south as soon as they've gone public.
▪ Others retire and head south for the sun.
▪ It swung north, then headed south, then back north, then east-east!-then back south.
▪ Sure enough, it turned out they were from Minnesota, heading south to try and stay ahead of the cold.
▪ He was one of thousands who headed south as soon as they heard the glad tidings on Monday morning.
▪ The suspects managed to get away, heading south on Interstate 5.
move
▪ The joy of the glove disappeared for him before the fights moved south of San Jose.
▪ The higher-paying jobs, to be sure, are expected to stay in Southern California even if production continues to move south.
▪ The second enemy battalion also attempted to move south.
▪ By 1500, however, peoples thought to be descendants of the Athapaskans had moved south.
▪ The only other soul in sight was a solitary stroller moving south along the beach.
▪ With more shock to follow as the Communists moved south, and south again.
▪ In the first two years after the liberation, eight hundred thousand northerners moved south.
turn
▪ It then turns south and rises to the surface to run at-grade for the last kilometre to Cairo University.
▪ Turn south, driving approximately 17 miles to the entrance.
▪ The sun shone brightly as we cruised over the jungle north of camp and turned south to line up on row three.
▪ Take I-10 east, turning south at the Sonoita turn-off.
▪ Bisbee is located about 90 minutes southeast of Tucson; take I-10 east to Benson, turning south on Highway 80.
▪ The river turns south, capturing the Platte and the Niobrara and the Kansas and-the James, and then east again.
▪ Travel east on I-10, turning south on Exit 302.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Go south on Highway 1 until you get to Monterey.
▪ The window faces south.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A well-graded road leads south, over a bridge, crosses the freeway and continues into the desert.
▪ Head east on Interstate 10 to just past Tucson, then south on Arizona 83 to Sonoita.
▪ If so, go south about three miles to Bunker Hill Road.
▪ In 1209 the force under de Montfort marched south and attacked the pretty town of Biziers.
▪ The sun shone brightly as we cruised over the jungle north of camp and turned south to line up on row three.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
South

South \South\, adv.

  1. Toward the south; southward.

  2. From the south; as, the wind blows south.
    --Bacon.

South

South \South\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Southed; p. pr. & vb. n. Southing.]

  1. To turn or move toward the south; to veer toward the south.

  2. (Astron.) To come to the meridian; to cross the north and south line; -- said chiefly of the moon; as, the moon souths at nine.

South

South \South\ (?; by sailors sou), n. [OE. south, su[thorn], AS. s[=u][eth] for sun[eth]; akin to D. zuid, OHG. sund, G. s["u]d, s["u]den, Icel. su[eth]r, sunnr, Dan. syd, s["o]nden, Sw. syd, s["o]der, sunnan; all probably akin to E. sun, meaning, the side towards the sun. [root]297. See Sun.]

  1. That one of the four cardinal points directly opposite to the north; the region or direction to the right or direction to the right of a person who faces the east.

  2. A country, region, or place situated farther to the south than another; the southern section of a country. ``The queen of the south.''
    --Matt. xii. 42.

  3. Specifically: That part of the United States which is south of Mason and Dixon's line. See under Line.

  4. The wind from the south. [Obs.]
    --Shak.

South

South \South\, a. Lying toward the south; situated at the south, or in a southern direction from the point of observation or reckoning; proceeding toward the south, or coming from the south; blowing from the south; southern; as, the south pole. ``At the south entry.''
--Shak.

South-Sea tea (Bot.) See Yaupon.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
south

Old English suð "southward, to the south, southern, in the south," from Proto-Germanic *sunthaz, perhaps literally "sun-side" (cognates: Old Saxon, Old Frisian suth "southward, in the south," Middle Dutch suut, Dutch zuid, German Süden), and related to base of *sunnon "sun" (see sun (v.)). Old French sur, sud (French sud), Spanish sur, sud are loan-words from Germanic, perhaps from Old Norse suðr.\n

\nAs an adjective from c.1300; as a noun, "one of the four cardinal points," also "southern region of a country," both late 13c. The Southern states of the U.S. have been collectively called The South since 1779 (in early use this often referred only to Georgia and South Carolina). South country in Britain means the part below the Tweed, in England the part below the Wash, and in Scotland the part below the Forth. South Sea meant "the Mediterranean" (late 14c.) and "the English Channel" (early 15c.) before it came to mean (in plural) "the South Pacific Ocean" (1520s). The nautical coat called a sou'wester (1836) protects the wearer against severe weather, such as a gale out of the southwest.

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Wiktionary
south

  1. 1 Toward the south; southward. 2 (label en meteorology of wind) from the south. 3 Of or pertaining to the south; southern. 4 Pertaining to the part of a corridor used by southbound traffic. adv. 1 Toward the south; southward. 2 Downward. 3 In an adverse direction or trend. 4 (context meteorology English) Of wind, from the south. n. One of the four major compass points, specifically 180°, directed toward the South Pole, and conventionally downwards on a map. v

  2. 1 To turn or move toward the south; to veer toward the south. 2 (context astronomy English) To come to the meridian; to cross the north and south line.

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WordNet
south

adj. situated in or facing or moving toward or coming from the south; "the south entrance" [ant: north]

south

adv. in a southern direction; "we moved south" [syn: to the south, in the south]

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Wikipedia
South

South is a noun, adjective, or adverb indicating direction or geography. It is one of the four cardinal directions or compass points. South is the polar opposite of north and is perpendicular to east and west.

South (lunar crater)

South is a large lunar crater that is located in the northwest part of the Moon. Most of the southern wall of this crater is joined to the Sinus Roris bay of the Oceanus Procellarum, with the southeast rim facing Mare Frigoris. Attached to the northwest of the formation is the larger walled plain Babbage. Just to the northeast is the crater Robinson, and farther to the northeast is another walled plain, J. Herschel.

Little remains of South's original rim, which is now just a disintegrated ring of low ridges. The most prominent surviving section lies to the northwest, while the southern half of the rim barely exists as low rises in the surface.

The interior floor of South has been resurfaced by basaltic lava, and is relatively level with no prominent features. The floor is pock-marked by many tiny craterlets, especially in the southern half. Several small craterlets lie along the remnant of the southern and southwestern rim.

South (band)

South were an English rock band. The band consisted of lead singer Joel Cadbury, Brett Shaw, and Jamie McDonald. Each member was a multi-instrumentalist and they shared duties on guitars, bass, percussion, keyboards.

South (disambiguation)

South is a cardinal direction or compass point.

South or The South may also refer to:

South (European Parliament constituency)

South is a constituency of the European Parliament in Ireland. It elects 4 Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) using the single transferable vote form of proportional representation (PR-STV).

South (Luton ward)

South is the name for a ward in the southern part of Luton, England. The ward includes New Town, Park Town, Chapel Langley and most of Luton town centre. Junction 10 of the M1 is just outside the ward. Both Luton Airport Parkway and Luton railway station are located within the ward. London Luton Airport is close by.

South (Heather Nova album)

South is Heather Nova's sixth album.

It spawned the U.S. single "Virus of the Mind". For this album, Nova also recorded a contemporary-styled cover of the standard " Gloomy Sunday", a song originally made popular by Billie Holiday. In retrospect, Nova found the album to be far too polished and not entirely to her liking. She declared that her next album, Storm, would be bare and would be the album she's always wanted to make.

There were two versions of this album; the original release on December 11, 2001, and an American release on May 21, 2002. The U.S. release contained one extra track, "Welcome", which also appeared in the 2005 album Redbird.

South (Shona Laing album)

South is a 1987/1988 album by New Zealand musician Shona Laing and her most commercially successful release to date. It was released twice; in 1987 as a worldwide release, and again in 1988 in the United States. Laing reprised three of the tracks from her 1985 album Genre ("(Glad I'm) Not a Kennedy", "The Migrant and Refugee" and "Neat and Tidy") for the U.S. release of South (only "Kennedy" was included on the international release).

South (composition)

"South" is a jazz composition by Thamon Hayes and Bennie Moten. It was introduced by Bennie Moten's Kansas City Orchestra in 1924 and recorded again in 1928, when it became a national hit. It was Moten's most popular composition.

Moten's popular Victor 1928 recording of "South" (V-38021) stayed in Victor's catalog over the years (reissued as 24893 in 1935 as Victor phased out any remaining V-38000 series that were still in the catalog) and became a big jukebox hit in the late 1940s (by then, reissued as 44-0004). It remained in print (as a vinyl 45) until RCA stopping making records.

Originally an instrumental, Ray Charles later wrote lyrics for the tune.

South (EP)

South is the fifth album by Ego Likeness and is the first in their Compass EP series. It was self-released in 2007 and was available for purchase only at tour locations or through their website. Only 300 copies were pressed and were individually numbered and autographed. According to the official website, the album is sold out but the songs are to be rereleased at a later date.

South (software)

South is a database migration framework for Django applications. It was created to overcome the fact that the integrated ORM in Django didn't take changes in models into account: you could create new models, but adding or removing fields was not supported.

Django 1.6 is the latest supported version. Since 1.7 the integrated ORM is to be preferred to South. South is therefore end-of-lifed, and will only get security fixes in the future.

South (Martian crater)

South Crater is an impact crater in the Mare Australe quadrangle of Mars, located at 77.1°S latitude and 338.0°W longitude. It is 107.1 km in diameter and was named after Sir James South, and the name was approved in 1973 by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature (WGPSN).

Very close to the crater there is what has been named "Swiss cheese" features. Swiss cheese features (SCFs) are pits so named because they look like the holes in Swiss cheese. They were first seen in 2000 using Mars Orbiter Camera imagery. They are usually a few hundred meters across and 8 metres deep, with a flat base and steep sides. They tend to have similar bean-like shapes with a cusp pointing towards the south pole. The angle of the sun probably contributes to their roundness. Near the Martian summer solstice, the sun can remain continuously just above the horizon; as a result the walls of a round depression will receive more intense sunlight, and sublimate much more rapidly than the floor. The walls sublimate and recede, while the floor remains the same. As the seasonal frost disappears, the pit walls appear to darken considerably relative to the surrounding terrain. The SCFs have been observed to grow in size, year by year, at an average rate of 1 to 3 meters, suggesting that they are formed in a thin layer (8m) of carbon dioxide ice lying on top of water ice.

Wikisoutheast.jpg|East side of South crater (Martian crater), as seen by CTX camera (on Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter). Wikisoutheastlayers.jpg|Layers in southern part of mound in South crater, as seen by CTX camera (on Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter). Note: this is an enlargement of the previous image of east side of South crater. Wikisoutheastswiss.jpg|Layers just outside the rim of South crater in the form of "Swiss cheese," as seen by CTX camera (on Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter). Note: this is an enlargement of a previous image of east side of South crater. Wikisouthwest.jpg|Western side of South crater, as seen by CTX camera (on Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter). Wikisouthwestlayers.jpg|Layers in mound in western side of South crater, as seen by CTX camera (on Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter). Note: this is an enlargement of a previous image of west side of South crater. Wikisouthwestswiss.jpg|Layers just outside rim of western side of South crater in the form of "Swiss cheese," as seen by CTX camera (on Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter). Note: this is an enlargement of a previous image of west side of South crater.

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Usage examples of "south".

For when it is stated, for instance, that the German Spitz dog unites more easily than other dogs with foxes, or that certain South American indigenous domestic dogs do not readily cross with European dogs, the explanation which will occur to everyone, and probably the true one, is that these dogs have descended from several aboriginally distinct species.

He wished to God Aby had agreed to the MacFarlane with him this year, which would have put Aby far to the south instead of on that road.

He was planning to throw the Strike Force at Gorgrael immediately after Beltide in revenge for the Yuletide attack, while a contrary rumor had Axis planning to drive south and capture Achar for the Icarii first.

Fernbrake Lake, one of the four magical lakes in Achar, lay deep in the Bracken Ranges far to the south of the Avarinheim, and the Avar people had to travel secretly through the hostile Skarabost Plains to reach the lake they called the Mother.

The Brattles, Hannah Flood and her children, and five other families--forty souls in all--had made it to some caves on the south end of the Achor Marshes and had remained hidden there for a week now.

Nest stood ran almost due south, it would be quicker to continue along it and cross the Acis lower down than to retrace the steps Dorcas and I had already taken and go back to the foot of the postern wall of Acies Castle.

Crimson clover has highest adaptation to the States east of the Allegheny Mountains and west of the Cascades, but will also grow in the more Central States south, in which moisture is abundant.

It was estimated that before the adjournment of Congress more than a thousand negroes and many white Unionists had been murdered in the South, without even the slightest attempt at prosecuting the murderers.

We have him on the antimicrobials and adjuvants which the South Carolina virus responded to.

This one had been built in the mid-1800s and relieved of service a century later, at which time it had been bought by the adventuresome young couple that, no longer young, had just moved south.

They learned later that the girl had taken frequent flights in the South, where her father had, for a time, entered into the business of giving aeroplane flights for money at county fairs and the like.

Angband he set him in a chair of stone upon a high place of Thangorodrim, from which he could see afar the land of Hithlum in the west and the lands of Beleriand in the south.

Seawolf responded to the rudder, the nose cone avoiding the pier to the south of Pier 4 as the vessel moved into the channel and a violent white foamy wake boiled up aft at the rudder.

Barnboard and half-portion of a barn door in the small bedroom upstairs, on the south side, was a happy afterthought, stumbled upon along the eastern seaboard on a buying trip.

It is probable, however, that neither side actually realized that war was inevitable, and that the other was determined to fight, until the assault on Fort Sumter presented the South as the first aggressor and roused the North to use every possible resource to maintain the government and the imperilled Union, and to vindicate the supremacy of the flag over every inch of the territory of the United States.