What's the difference between homewards and toward?
Homewards
Definition:
(adv.) Toward home; in the direction of one's house, town, or country.
Example Sentences:
(1) In a trailer shown Sunday for an upcoming documentary on state-run Rossiya-1 television called “Homeward bound”, Putin openly discusses Moscow’s controversial grabbing of Crimea a year ago.
(2) In releases from two unfamiliar sites, ablated birds, unlike control birds, were not homeward oriented and were mostly lost.
(3) Northern Ireland are homeward bound but their fans are leaving on a high | Barney Ronay Read more Grigg failed to make it off Northern Ireland’s bench in France, but became one of the names of the tournament after the 90s song Freed From Desire was adapted in his honour.
(4) Hippocampal ablated homing pigeons have been shown to suffer a retrograde spatial reference memory deficit involving a preoperatively acquired homeward orientation response based on local cues around a previously visited release site.
(5) Close up your counting house on Christmas Eve and watch your clerk slide homewards along the ice slide on Cornhill, before slouching around the corner to take your “melancholy dinner” in the “usual melancholy tavern”.
(6) Flights of bats with unimpeded vision were strongly oriented in the homeward direction, while the flights of blindfolded bats did not show this marked orientation.
(7) It was that dangerous twilight time, when the roads are swarming with villagers, their children, chickens, runaway piglets, wayward goats and workshy dogs, all dashing to get home before nightfall; drivers of vehicles without functioning lights or brakes career around potholes, also hurrying homewards.
(8) As a PCD persists, and even tends to become clearer, after elimination of homeward orientation by olfactory deprivation, it is concluded that it reflects directional tendencies which are independent of the process of site localization.
(9) After service in the Afghan - and Iraqi theaters of war - after 100,000 miles, on the longest carrier deployment in recent history, you are homeward bound.
(10) Associated Newspapers' London Lite and News International's the London Paper are handed out to homeward-bound commuters for free until about 7.30pm.
(11) Nonetheless, both groups successfully oriented homeward, indicating that the hippocampal-ablated pigeons were unimpaired in the acquisition and implementation of directionally useful information around the training sites to direct a homeward orientation response.
(12) Levels of dopamine and serotonin were significantly higher in the homeward migrants.
(13) Here we report that the range of retrograde deficits includes spatial reference memory in the form of information gained from repeated training sites that can be used to direct a homeward orientation response.
(14) Homeward directedness at the 36 differently situated release sites is negatively correlated with angular divergence between PCD and homeward direction.
(15) We could still find no evidence for blindfold homeward orientation in humans.
(16) DMGT's afternoon freesheet London Lite and its News International rival the London Paper are handed out to homeward-bound commuters free until about 7.30pm.
(17) The poor initial orientation in either controls or experimentals in many single experiments and in pooled data was an insufficient basis for the evaluation of the influence of olfactory deprivation on homeward directedness.
(18) Neotropical bats, Phyllostomas hastatus, were released 10 kilometers from their home roost, and their homeward flights were tracked by radio.
(19) When later released from 3 distant unfamiliar locations, the hippocampal-lesioned pigeons were impaired in taking up a homeward bearing.
(20) The plan will aim to better capitalise on hitting homeward-bound commuters by boosting the print run of the paper's final edition.
Toward
Definition:
(prep.) Alt. of Towards
(adv.) Alt. of Towards
(prep.) Approaching; coming near.
(prep.) Readly to do or learn; compliant with duty; not froward; apt; docile; tractable; as, a toward youth.
(prep.) Ready to act; forward; bold; valiant.
Example Sentences:
(1) The microsomal preparations from untreated Syrian golden hamster livers exhibited higher activities of N-demethylation towards the macrolide antibiotics, erythromycin and troleandomycin, than those from untreated and phenobarbital-treated rats.
(2) In X-irradiated litters, almost invariably, the incidence of anophthalmia was higher in exencephalic than in nonexencephalic embryos and the ratio of these incidences (relative risk) decreased toward 1 with increasing dose.
(3) First, it has diverted grain away from food for fuel, with over a third of US corn now used to produce ethanol and about half of vegetable oils in the EU going towards the production of biodiesel.
(4) Enhanced sensitivity to ITDs should translate to better-defined azimuthal receptive fields, and therefore may be a step toward achieving an optimal representation of azimuth within the auditory pathway.
(5) Postpartum management is directed toward decreasing vasospasm and central nervous system irritability and maintaining fluid and electrolyte balance.
(6) Another important factor, however, seems to be that patients, their families, doctors and employers estimate capacity of performance on account of the specific illness, thus calling for intensified efforts toward rehabilitation.
(7) Normal and tumor cell cultures exhibited increased sensitivity toward TNF in the presence of mifepristone.
(8) With respect to family environment, a history of sexual abuse was associated with perceptions that families of origin had less cohesion, more conflict, less emphasis on moral-religious matters, less emphasis on achievement, and less of an orientation towards intellectual, cultural, and recreational pursuits.
(9) Mice also had a decreased ability to develop delayed-type hypersensitivity reactions while being given cadmium; this abnormality also returned toward normal after withdrawal of cadmium.
(10) After several months, a temporal discrimination was well established, as shown by maximum suppression toward the end of the signal period.
(11) It comes as the museum is transforming itself in the wake of major cuts in its government funding and looking more towards private-sector funding, a move that has caused some unease about its future direction.
(12) The Pakistan government, led as usual by a general, was anxious to project the army's role as bringers of order to a country that was sliding quickly towards civil war.
(13) This paper presents findings from a survey on knowledge of and attitudes and practices towards AIDS among currently married Zimbabwean men conducted between April and June 1988.
(14) Local minima of hand speed evident within segments of continuous motion were associated with turn toward the target.
(15) Moreover, it allows the clinician to be alert towards findings which could be missed when not carefully searched for and which may be useful to raise or strengthen the suspicion of this disease.
(16) An N-acetylation polymorphism is described that is expressed toward arylamine carcinogens in tumor target organs of an inbred rat model.
(17) Expansion of the cell sheet following attachment, and the fusion of epiblasts advancing toward each other, does not require the presence of mineralocorticoid.
(18) It was then determined whether reducing the PA wedge pressure during exercise with prazosin (9 patients) or dobutamine (6 patients) reduced ventilatory levels toward normal.
(19) The toluene group were more approving in their attitudes towards taking other drugs.
(20) The inhibition by DCMU of palmitoylcarnitine oxidation by isolated liver mitochondria was used to calculate a flux control coefficient of the respiratory chain towards gluconeogenesis.