(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.
Northwards
Definition:
(adv.) Toward the north, or toward a point nearer to the north than to the east or west point.
Example Sentences:
(1) Since then oil exploration has built up considerably, the main effort moving northwards between the Shetland Islands and the Norwegian coasts.
(2) Butterflies and birds were already migrating northwards to the poles , he added.
(3) The Russian official warned about the formation of an Islamic caliphate in Iraq, which was in the process of disintegrating; he warned that this caliphate would try to take control of the Middle East and, from there, would send its long arms northward, via the Islamic former Soviet republics.
(4) Proceeding northwards towards Mamfe, infections with P. africanus decreased steadily, whereas infections with P. uterobilateralis increased.
(5) The data presented here show that the distinctive features of Languedoc extend northwards through the Rhône Valley up to Lyon and disappears southwards before the Spanish border.
(6) After decades dreaming of life among olive trees and vineyards, these days for some reason, we Brits are now projecting our need for the existence of an earthly paradise northwards.
(7) Table: Countrywide Nick Dunning, group commercial director at Countrywide, said: "2013 saw the focus of demand shift sharply northwards after several years of more stable levels of supply and demand.
(8) Erdoğan has also been criticised by EU countries for pursuing his vendetta with the Kurds while failing to stem the northwards flow of Syrian refugees and the southwards flow of Isis recruits from Europe and North America.
(9) Crops in Russia may be able to expand northwards but yields will be much lower because the soils are less fertile.
(10) The story of racial conflict that emerged in the 20th century north is well documented in histories written by Isabel Wilkerson about the migration northward, by Tom Sugrue about the decline of Detroit, and by Arnold Hirsch about the south side of Chicago.
(11) Evidence suggests that the AHF endemic area may continue to expand northward.
(12) The flow of drugs northward appears to have continued unabated despite a string of cartel bosses being captured or killed in the years since he launched the offensive.
(13) As to the specific cause of the earthquake, it was triggered by the India tectonic plate, which is moving northwards at the rate of 5cm a year into central Asia.
(14) With less than a week to go until the Sun crosses northwards over the equator at the vernal equinox, it is showing real signs of rebirth in another respect.
(15) The British comma butterfly has moved 137 miles northward in the past two decades, while geometrid moths on Mount Kinabalu in Borneo have shifted uphill by 59 metres in 42 years.
(16) That is an apparent reference to North Korea's claim that its atomic weapons programmes deter the US and South Korea from staging a northward invasion that would allow Seoul to rule the entire Korean peninsula.
(17) The epizootic primarily affected juvenile or subadult male California sea lions migrating northward from breeding rookeries of southern California's Channel Islands.
(18) These birds seemed to be capable of making really dramatic movements at short notice, even just after returning on their northwards migration,” he said.
(19) Many Labour MPs in the north believe that rather than spreading prosperity northwards – and narrowing the north-south divide – HS2 will suck even more prosperity southwards as a result of faster links.
(20) Species of butterflies and birds could be squeezed northwards, and great white sharks could be regular visitors to UK waters.