(n.) The point between the north and east, at an equal distance from each; the northeast part or region.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the northeast; proceeding toward the northeast, or coming from that point; as, a northeast course; a northeast wind.
(adv.) Toward the northeast.
Example Sentences:
(1) Iraqi police have also executed detainees in Tal Afar and government-allied militias opened fire on a mosque in the Khanaqin district northeast of Baghdad killing 73 men and boys, Pansieri said.
(2) The purpose of this study was to analyse the composition of the urine in the indigenous population in the northeast area and compare their values with data obtained from a group of age matched adults, living in Bangkok.
(3) Of the definite cases, 489 were acquired in endemic areas of the Northeast or Midwest; one case was acquired in Utah and one in western Pennsylvania, two areas where the illness had not been previously reported.
(4) Serial exposures to peak levels of ozone on several consecutive days are more characteristic of pollution episodes in the Northeast United States and may be associated with recurrent symptoms.
(5) Remaining vacancies ranged from 5% of total staff in the Northeast and 3% in the Midwest to 2% in the South and 1% in the West.
(6) Zika is most prevalent in Brazil’s northeast but has spread south to Rio.
(7) The first stage of the mountain-flattening initiative, which was reported on Tuesday by the China Economic Weekly magazine, began in late October and will eventually enable a new urban district almost 10 square miles in size northeast of downtown Lanzhou – a small, but important part of the Lanzhou Nnew area project to be built.
(8) Disease surveillance and population surveys of risk characteristics in a northeast rural community of Japan (1965 census population, 7,030) are combined in an attempt to relate morbidity and risk factor trends for coronary heart disease and stroke during the last 2 decades.
(9) A study carried out, from July 1990 until April 1991, in a small village situated in the northeast of Spain (Pradell de la Teixeta) has allowed the discovery of three sandflies species: Phlebotomus ariasi, P. perniciosus and Sergentomyia minuta.
(10) 44 healthy pregnant women from 12 villages near the city of Ubon, northeast Thailand, were studied as part of a multicenter study investigating energy requirements during pregnancy.
(11) This subspecies is also found in the northeast of Argentina.
(12) Pyridoxine status was investigated in four hundred and twenty-four village preschool children aged 1-60 months in Khon Kaen, and Nakorn Rachseema, Northeast Thailand using the erythrocyte aspartate aminotransferase (EAST) test and pyridoxal-5-phosphate activation coefficient (AC).
(13) Onset of decline of CHD mortality among White women was estimated to have occurred by 1962 in 53% of 507 state economic areas (SEAs), ranging from 79% in the Northeast to 39% in the South.
(14) Heritability estimates, by year of freshening of daughter, were obtained from daughter-dam and granddaughter-granddam regressions using 61,482 triply matched first lactations of artificially sired Holstein cows obtained from the Northeast Dairy Records Processing Laboratory.
(15) These results suggest that DOT-ELISA can be an useful, simple and more sensitive alternative for the serodiagnosis of plague in Northeast Brazil.
(16) The sample included 157 Khasi and 24 Bodo from Cherrapunji (Meghalaya), 148, Rengma Naga and 81 Hmar of the Cachar district of Assam, 215 Adi from different subtribes, 216 Nishi, 79 Apatani, and a mixed group of 58 individuals from several other tribes of Arunachal Pradesh in northeast India.
(17) On previous days there was offshore flow – generally from the northeast.
(18) The theory that a shortage of dental hygienists exists in Louisiana was investigated through analysis of Louisiana State Board of Dentistry manpower figures, dental hygiene graduate numbers, and responses to a Northeast Louisiana University graduate survey.
(19) There was a regional difference in programs providing training; those in the northeast were least likely to provide training and were also least likely to be actively integrating training into their curricula.
(20) Metropolitan SEAs were in advance of non-metropolitan, and the Northeast and Pacific states showed earlier onset than the South and midsections of the country.
Northwest
Definition:
(n.) The point in the horizon between the north and west, and equally distant from each; the northwest part or region.
(a.) Pertaining to, or in the direction of, the point between the north and west; being in the northwest; toward the northwest, or coming from the northwest; as, the northwest coast.
(a.) Coming from the northwest; as, a northwest wind.
(adv.) Toward the northwest.
Example Sentences:
(1) program designed to provide family practitioners to northwest Pennsylvania, a medically underserved area.
(2) Deposition fluxes of Pb, Cd, Cu and a range of 11 PAH compounds have been determined at distances of 3.8-220 m from the M6 motorway in northwest England over a period of 21 months.
(3) The first modern humans in the Maghreb are said to be associated with the Aterian industries which appeared at least 40 ka BP in the northwest.
(4) Results by our micromethods (n = 66) agreed well with those by the conventional methods used at the Northwest Lipid Research Center, which are standardized against the Reference Methods of the Centers for Disease Control.
(5) Without a large number of stably integrated neighbourhoods, without an influx of new immigrants, without a substantial drop in violent crime and without any trust between the police and the community, the new chapter of urban demography and racial conflict in the northwest suburbs of St Louis looks a lot like the old chapter in the city itself.
(6) But their joy didn't last long; a week later, 11 rhino were found on a single day at two private ranches northwest of Johannesburg.
(7) A total of 114 cases occurred on the Blackfeet Indian reservation in northwest Montana.
(8) A project for increasing public awareness of radon as an environmental hazard was carried out in south central Wisconsin and northwest Illinois using local medical resources.
(9) An aggressive Whitecap team that manhandled Portland's midfield grabbed a late equalizer, leaving the teams drawn 1-1, yet the only thing in the Pacific Northwest most fans cared about was what happened before kickoff in Seattle.
(10) In a study conducted at the Northwest Lipid Research Clinic at the University of Washington, Seattle, the clinical chemistries of women using OCs and replacement estrogen were compared with those of nonusers.
(11) Greater World Earthship Community, Taos, New Mexico The more radical fringe of eco-communities is represented by a collection of so-called earthships 12 miles northwest of the town of Taos in New Mexico.
(12) More than 80% of those in Tacoma have no lawyers, according to the Northwest Immigrants Rights Project.
(13) Davies kept in play the less polluting options for Heathrow, though a northwest runway would render Cameron's old school, Eton , almost uninhabitable.
(14) A windfarm in the northwest Xinjiang region, China.
(15) A cohort study of 2,103 workers employed between 1942 and 1960 at a uranium mine in the Northwest Territories, Canada, was conducted.
(16) Sequencing of a 360-nucleotide segment of the mitochondrial control region for 63 individuals from an Amerindian tribe, the Nuu-Chah-Nulth of the Pacific Northwest, revealed the existence of 28 lineages defined by 26 variable positions.
(17) Andy Burnham bids to be Labour's candidate for Manchester mayor Read more Economic historians will tell you that the rivalry between the two great cities of the northwest dates back to the 1890s, when Mancunian mill owners got fed up with paying fees to the Mersey dock owners and built the world’s largest ship canal as an alternative.
(18) Kaiser Permanente Northwest Region is a prepaid group practice health maintenance organization.
(19) The residence addresses of 998 controls were located and assigned an X-Y coordinate and census tract designation within a three-county geographic area in northwest Washington State.
(20) A cross section of adult full-blooded Aborigines from three small isolated communities in the desert region of northwest Australia was surveyed for diabetes, impaired glucose tolerance (IGT), insulin levels, and lipoprotein lipids.