What's the difference between northerly and northernmost?

Northerly


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the north; toward the north, or from the north; northern.
  • (adv.) Toward the north.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These findings from 2 widely separated little Japanese islands constitute the parasite's most northerly records to date.
  • (2) A radar station at Saxa Vord , now a holiday resort on the UK's most northerly populated island of Unst in Shetland, was down to be hit by a three-megaton bomb.
  • (3) The players Facebook Twitter Pinterest Ed Miliband’s Commons bloc could still be the biggest, in which case a straightforward first call would be to Alasdair McDonnell, leader of Norther Ireland’s SDLP.
  • (4) This extreme coincided with exceptionally strong northerly winds, which were followed by an abrupt southerly change.
  • (5) The northerly region has become a new frontier for exploration since global warming caused ice to melt, oil escalated in value to its current $114 a barrel and the US Geological Survey concluded that almost a quarter of the world's undiscovered oil and gas reserves may lie in the Arctic.
  • (6) The ruling Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) has also won several local elections in the country’s western and norther states in the past month, despite the ongoing cash shortages.
  • (7) But it will get worse – by midweek, northerly or north-westerly winds will make us feel chilly, and by Thursday and Friday there are likely to be widespread heavy and thundery showers.
  • (8) This is the most northerly of 14 localities now known for this species in the Pacific northwest.
  • (9) A disease characterized by segments of ischaemic small intestine has been recognized in norther Thailand over the past decade.
  • (10) Weatherzone predicted a “cool change will flush the heat out” of the region at the weekend, however “unfortunately the respite will be short-lived, with warm northerly winds redeveloping across eastern Australia from the beginning of next week”.
  • (11) However, in more northerly climates, photoperiodic control is crucial in avoiding precocious development in the highly variable climatic conditions of early spring.
  • (12) The outer Thames estuary would have been relatively sheltered from northerly offshore winds.
  • (13) An electric storm as people arrive at the more northerly of the Reading and Leeds festival's two sites is an appropriate beginning to what is traditionally the loudest, most tattooed, raucous of the UK festivals.
  • (14) A spokeswoman for the Met Office said on Friday: "Last night saw northerly winds drag cold air from quite a long way north over the UK.
  • (15) Blood serum tocopherol was determined in 44 calves born in the spring from cows that had been fed either timothy grass silage or timothy hay produced in Norther Ontario.
  • (16) Very early snowfalls were noted across parts of the US last weekend, with northerly winds delivering the earliest snow ever recorded to South Carolina.
  • (17) Moving into Honduras, with the sweet sounds of the Guatemalan marimbas floating in on the northerly breeze, we find Café Guancasco taking stock as the new century begins.
  • (18) Twenty years after a desperate banking crisis sparked a deep recession, this most northerly member of the eurozone was hailed on Wednesday as an example to follow by Mario Monti , Italy's prime minister.
  • (19) Factors such as a Northerly geographical situation, low temperatures, the long duration of the disease, improvement in diagnostic methods and a high level of awareness have all influenced this high number of cases found in an area of 200,000 inhabitants.
  • (20) One of these is a cline in D. auraria's phase-shifting response to light, which steadily weakens in a succession of more northerly strains.

Northernmost


Definition:

  • (a.) Farthest north.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Anopheles hermsi was collected in San Mateo County, CA, which is now the northernmost known limit of this species.
  • (2) The hip-fracture incidence in persons aged 50 years and older in the two northernmost counties of Sweden was studied during three periods between 1973 and 1984.
  • (3) Starting from the northernmost point of the island, it follows a varied course along high sea-cliffs and mountain ridges, taking in low lying crofts, villages deserted many years ago by the Highland Clearances, and modern day settlements, and gives a real taste of the island, its landscape, culture and heritage.
  • (4) The northernmost beaches, Anglesey Porth Llanlleiana bay, Anglesey.
  • (5) • €200 for three nights and free access to two archery centres, tiroler-adler.at Road cycling in Ireland Facebook Twitter Pinterest Wild Atlantic Cycling is a new, small travel company running cycling holidays along the Wild Atlantic Way , the route from the southernmost to northernmost tip of Ireland (Mizen to Malin).
  • (6) To determine whether there is a direct correlation between endurance capacity and cold tolerance, maximal oxygen consumption (VO2max), and cold-induced vasodilatation (CIVD), we measured these factors in 14 young female athletes born in Hokkaido, Japan's northernmost island.
  • (7) However, it could be worse in some locations, just as we saw record thermal stress in the northernmost Mariana Islands and the north-western Hawaiian islands in 2014.” Predicted thermal stress in Indian Ocean.
  • (8) Few cities in the developed world can have been put as comprehensively through the wringer as Yubari, on Japan’s northernmost island of Hokkaido and known in its heyday as the capital of coal.
  • (9) Patmos, one of the northernmost of the Dodecanese islands, is weathering the current storm because it’s a special island.
  • (10) A study of the incidence of uncomplicated optic neuritis (ON) in the period 1972-1984 and the subsequent risk of later developing of multiple sclerosis (MS) was performed in the two northernmost counties of Norway.
  • (11) The geographical influence was eliminated by excluding the 6 northernmost clinics, but the frequency of operations still varied with a factor of nearly 5 between the clinics.
  • (12) The one-year birth cohort of 12 058 children, 96% of all children born in the two northernmost provinces of Finland, Oulu and Lapland, in 1966 was studied prospectively up to the age of 14 years.
  • (13) This is the northernmost occurrence of this parasite reported in North America.
  • (14) Beyond here is the northernmost tip of the island, Cape Gourouni (Pig), and two more tiny strips of sand, Fat George Beach and Dead Woman Beach.
  • (15) This island is the northernmost region of white-tailed deer distribution in northeastern North America.
  • (16) Manchester United and Tottenham Hotspur Sevilla and Internazionale Which of the 24 competing countries has the northernmost point?
  • (17) Now, around its northernmost branches where the minarets and pylons thin out and the landscape becomes more windswept, another is playing out to devastating effect.
  • (18) This is the first isolation in the USSR of a California complex virus in the Arctic and the northernmost site of Tahyna virus isolation in the world.
  • (19) It was the northernmost point struck by a rocket in the present conflict.
  • (20) Two northernmost administrative districts of Finland.

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