What's the difference between northwest and northwestwardly?
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.
Northwestwardly
Definition:
(adv.) Toward the northwest.
Example Sentences:
(1) An epidemic in jackals (86 per cent of cases) with associated cases in cattle (7 per cent) spread rapidly northwestward through the commercial farming areas.
(2) The investigation suggested that a large virus source due to infected pigs in a feedlot in January 1952 could have been responsible for airborne dispersion northwestwards downwind to farms up to 20 km distant.