(a.) Of or pertaining to ancient Scandinavia, or to the language spoken by its inhabitants.
(n.) The Norse language.
Example Sentences:
(1) Three hundred and forty-eight cranial remains from Bronze and Iron Age British, Romano-British, Anglo-Saxon, Eastern Coast Australian aborigines, Medieval Christian Norse, Medieval Scarborough, 17--20th century British and German cultures, were examined for the presence of osteoarthritis in the temporomandibular joints.
(2) It's hard to imagine a more masculine character than Thor, who is based on the god of thunder of Norse myth: he's the strapping, hammer-wielding son of Odin who, more often than not, sports a beard and likes nothing better than smacking frost giants.
(3) His favourite book is The Poetic Edda, a landmark collection of Old Norse poetry.
(4) (2) The Knowledge inbox overflowed with various further Sportings and Football Clubs from around this wide footballing world of ours and a few examples that highlight the difficulty of classifying exactly what constitutes 'non-native' (should Hibernian, derived from the Roman name for Ireland, count for example, or 'Rovers, which is apparently derived from Norse?).
(5) Whole settlements, complete with livestock could have retreated to these brochs at times of Norse attacks from the sea.
(6) In Norse mythology, Yggdrasil was an enormous ash tree that harboured all the life in the universe.
(7) Cloud and hosting services of industry giants like Amazon and GoDaddy are being used to launch the attacks, Norse’s research indicates.
(8) Byatt was speaking at the launch of her new book, a retelling of the Norse Ragnarok myth, in which, after a succession of natural disasters, the world ends: a story she has found compelling since her childhood during the war.
(9) Security consultants the Guardian contacted on Norse’s claims aren’t entirely sure there is enough proof of Iranian involvement.
(10) It marked the end of the Norse rule in Scotland – and the victory is commemorated each year at the Largs Viking Festival.
(11) But Norse believes it has enough evidence to substantiate its claims, which it will soon detail in full.
(12) In its own research, Norse set up fake systems that appeared to belong to businesses and critical infrastructure providers that would have proven attractive to attackers.
(13) The author Joanne Harris, whose new novel The Gospel of Loki is set in the world of Norse mythology, also called Nordby's discovery "very, very interesting".
(14) Kinship is largely due to local drift rather than Norse admixture, the estimate of which is obscured by drift and appears highly unreliable.
(15) ‘The groups are allowed to operate on financial crimes...’ Rather than large, singular groups of digital spies, Iran has quietly built up a secret, disparate army of “mercenaries”, each separate from one another but with similar aims, according to the authors of the report, which will be published soon by Silicon Valley security company Norse.
(16) Icebreaker: A Viking Voyage (£1.49 + IAP) Icebreaker is a puzzle-action game with a viking theme, tasking you with freeing Norse warriors by solving 140 physics-puzzle levels.
(17) Loosely based on the legendary saga of the Norse hero Ragnar Lothbrok , Vikings has moments of surprising historical clarity mixed up with a lot of HBO-style sex, mainly between Lothbrok and his wife Lagertha.
(18) "Banks don't cure disease", declared one gentle placard; "Science is more useful than duck islands" and "Ancient Norse is not a luxury," said others.
(19) To assess the temporal and spatial variation of one form of oral tori, palatine torus, observations were made on all available Greenlandic Norse skeletons, as well as on samples of medieval Icelanders and Norwegians.
(20) The figure for Alan Taylor's film, which once again stars Chris Hemsworth as the Norse god of thunder, suggests the movie is well on the way to a global debut of at least $200m when it debuts in North America and China next weekend.
North
Definition:
(n.) That one of the four cardinal points of the compass, at any place, which lies in the direction of the true meridian, and to the left hand of a person facing the east; the direction opposite to the south.
(n.) Any country or region situated farther to the north than another; the northern section of a country.
(n.) Specifically: That part of the United States lying north of Mason and Dixon's line. See under Line.
(a.) Lying toward the north; situated at the north, or in a northern direction from the point of observation or reckoning; proceeding toward the north, or coming from the north.
(v. i.) To turn or move toward the north; to veer from the east or west toward the north.
(adv.) Northward.
Example Sentences:
(1) Until his return to Brazil in 1985, Niemeyer worked in Israel, France and north Africa, designing among other buildings the University of Haifa on Mount Carmel; the campus of Constantine University in Algeria (now known as Mentouri University); the offices of the French Communist party and their newspaper l'Humanité in Paris; and the ministry of external relations and the cathedral in Brasilia.
(2) A commensurate rise in both smoking and adenocarcinoma has occurred in the Far East where the incidence rate (40%) is twice that of North America or Europe.
(3) On 9 January 2002, a few hours after Blair became the first western leader to visit Afghanistan's new post-Taliban leader, Hamid Karzai, an aircraft carrying the first group of MI5 interrogators touched down at Bagram airfield, 32 miles north of Kabul.
(4) However, he has also insisted that North Korea live up to its own commitments, adhere to its international obligations and deal peacefully with its neighbours.
(5) In this paper we report sixteen new cases from Europe and North America, suggesting that Kabuki make-up syndrome may be more common outside of Japan than supposed.
(6) Nor is this political fantasy: at the European elections in May, across 51 authorities in the north-west and north-east, Ukip finished ahead of Labour in 18 and as its main rival in 30.
(7) Photograph: AP Reasons for wavering • State relies on coal-fired electricity • Poor prospects for wind power • Conservative Democrat • Represents conservative district in conservative state and was elected on narrow margins Campaign support from fossil fuel interests in 2008 • $93,743 G K Butterfield (North Carolina) GK Butterfield, North Carolina.
(8) In later years, the church built a business empire that included the Washington Times newspaper, the New Yorker Hotel in Manhattan, Bridgeport University in Connecticut, as well as a hotel and a car plant in North Korea.
(9) Scott was born in North Shields, Tyne and Wear, the youngest of the three sons of Colonel Francis Percy Scott, who served in the Royal Engineers, and his wife, Elizabeth.
(10) Originally from Pyongyang, the tour guide explains that a “merited artist” from Mansudae, North Korea’s biggest art studio in Pyongyang, was responsible for the main piece, but that it took 63 artists almost two years to complete.
(11) Various immunoassays have been introduced into, and evaluated at, the Amani Medical Centre in north-east Tanzania.
(12) Hamish Kale Floating sauna near Uppsala, Sweden Just outside Uppsala, around one hour north of Stockholm, lies the picturesque outdoor adventure area of Fjällnora.
(13) Besides the 15 cases reported in 1984, 6 additional cases of anti-vWF alloantibodies were reported, i.e., one from Spain (a relative of a previously reported case), two from Venezuela (brother and sister) and three from North Carolina (unrelated patients).
(14) For months, more than 170,000 mainly Syrian refugees travelling north from Greece have used Hungary as a thoroughfare to the safety of northern and western Europe.
(15) Principal conclusions are: 1) rapid change to predominantly heterosexual HIV transmission can occur in North America, with serious societal impact; 2) gender-specific clinical features can lead to earlier diagnosis of HIV infection in women; 3) HIV infection in women does not pursue an inherently more rapid course than that observed in men.
(16) Slager, 33, was a patrolman first class for the North Charleston police department when he fatally shot Scott, 50, following a struggle that led from a traffic stop when the officer noticed that one of Scott’s car tail lights was broken.
(17) Acini in the parotid gland of the North American mink (Mustela vision) are composed of seromucous cells that contain secretory granules of peculiar morphology.
(18) As he gears up to contest the Liberal Democrat seat of Gordon in north-east Scotland, Salmond effectively assumes a commanding role in the general election campaign.
(19) Were he from Iceland, or from the north pole, then I would say he still had his ski boots on.
(20) His words earned a stinging rebuke from first lady Michelle Obama , but at a Friday rally in North Carolina he said of one accuser, Jessica Leeds: “Yeah, I’m gonna go after you.