(n.) That one of the four cardinal points directly opposite to the north; the region or direction to the right or direction to the right of a person who faces the east.
(n.) A country, region, or place situated farther to the south than another; the southern section of a country.
(n.) Specifically: That part of the United States which is south of Mason and Dixon's line. See under Line.
(n.) The wind from the south.
(a.) Lying toward the south; situated at the south, or in a southern direction from the point of observation or reckoning; proceeding toward the south, or coming from the south; blowing from the south; southern; as, the south pole.
(adv.) Toward the south; southward.
(adv.) From the south; as, the wind blows south.
(v. i.) To turn or move toward the south; to veer toward the south.
(v. i.) To come to the meridian; to cross the north and south line; -- said chiefly of the moon; as, the moon souths at nine.
Example Sentences:
(1) Two of the largest markets are Germany and South Korea, often held up as shining examples of export-led economies.
(2) Theophylline kinetics, as an in vivo probe for the potentially toxic cytochrome P-450I pathway of drug metabolism, were studied in 11 healthy volunteers and 11 patients with calcific chronic pancreatitis at Madras, South India.
(3) A study of factors influencing genetic counseling attendance rate has been conducted in the Bouches-du-Rhône area, in the south of France.
(4) It is the oldest medical journal in South America and the second in antiquity published in Spanish, after the Gaceta de México.
(5) Twelve patients with South American mococutaneous leishmaniasis who attended the Hospital Amazonico in Peru between February and September 1974 were treated with amphotericin B.
(6) 2.35pm: West Ham co-owner David Sullivan has admitted that a deal to land Miroslav Klose is unlikely to go through following the striker's star performances in South Africa.
(7) Gallic wine sales in the UK have been tumbling for the past 20 years, but the news that France, once the largest exporter to these shores, has slipped behind Australia, the United States, Italy and now South Africa will have producers gnawing their knuckles in frustration.
(8) A full-scale war is unlikely but there is clear concern in Seoul about the more realistic threat of a small-scale attack on the South Korean military or a group of islands near the countries' disputed maritime border in the Yellow Sea.
(9) An official inquiry into the Rotherham abuse scandal blamed failings by Rotherham council and South Yorkshire police.
(10) The cause has been innumerable "VIP movements", as journeys undertaken by those considered important enough for all other traffic to be held up, sometimes for hours, are described in South Asian bureaucratic speak.
(11) In South Africa, health risks associated with exposure to toxic waste sites need to be viewed in the context of current community health concerns, competing causes of disease and ill-health, and the relative lack of knowledge about environmental contamination and associated health effects.
(12) Why is it so surprising to people that a boy like Chol, just out of conflict, has thought through the needs of his country in such a detailed way?” While Beah’s zeal is laudable, the situation in South Sudan is dire .
(13) Although the FP approaches have been different in Botswana, Zimbabwe, and South Africa, the programs have successfully made services available.
(14) Many Cornish people believe the far south-west of England is a nation apart from the rest of Britain.
(15) In October, an episode of South Park saw the whole town go gluten-free (the stuff, it was discovered, made one’s penis fly off).
(16) Rather than an off-plan Oxshott monster-mansion, he moved his family to an elegant Eaton Terrace townhouse in south-west London.
(17) Initial proceedings in Carl Pistorius' trial had focused on a request by South Africa's national broadcaster, SABC, to show the trial proceedings live on national television or record them for later use.
(18) Recommendations have been made regarding the development of this specialisation in the South African health care setting.
(19) Remember, if he did seize group power and dispose of the Independent , he'd still be boss of the rest of INM: 200 or so papers and magazines around the world, dominant voices in Australasia, South Africa, India and Ireland itself, 100 million readers a week.
(20) Recent reports from local health centres in South Kivu claim that an estimated 40 women continue to experience sexual violence every day.
Southernmost
Definition:
(a.) Farthest south.
Example Sentences:
(1) A retrospective evaluation of 136 newborns treated with mechanical ventilation between 1983 and 1989 at the chilean's southernmost regional hospital of Punta Arenas is presented.
(2) Kennedy's first trip to Japan's southernmost prefecture comes as Tokyo seeks guarantees of Washington's support over its long-running dispute with China over ownership of the Senkaku islands, in the East China Sea.
(3) The stretch of water between Cape Horn, the southernmost tip of South America, and Antarctica is many a mariner’s graveyard.
(4) • €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).
(5) In contrast, M' strains are currently observed in the southernmost French populations and in all Spanish ones, so that there is a clear pattern in their geographical distribution.
(6) In 1984, a cross-sectional survey was carried out in Quitafine, the southernmost district of Guinea-Bissau in West Africa, as part of an ongoing health project in the area.
(7) O. nigripes is a small wild rodent and it appears to be the main definitive host of A. costaricensis in the highlands of RS, Brazil's southernmost State.
(8) Hamadoun cast doubt on reports that Douentza, one of the southernmost towns under Islamist control, had been recaptured by the Malian army this week.
(9) This is almost the southernmost point of the European mainland, and the feeling of blessed isolation would be hard to beat.
(10) Condors soared above the world’s southernmost forest.
(11) Most of the country, including the main city, Kuala Lumpur, was not as badly affected, though two southernmost towns recorded hazardous air quality.
(12) Epidemiological investigations of mental disorders among the aged population were conducted in two rural areas of the southernmost prefecture of Japan.
(13) Primorye is the southernmost region of the Soviet Far East and the extreme southeastern area of the Soviet Union.
(14) Prince Charles and Prince Harry read at the service at the Cape Helles memorial, a towering stone obelisk on the southernmost tip of the Gallipoli peninsula whose square base walls bear the names of the 20,673 British and Commonwealth servicemen who lost their lives near here “and who have no known grave”.
(15) Eight hundred second chromosomes were extracted from the Ishigakijima population, one of the southernmost populations of Drosophila melanogaster in Japan.
(16) Incidence was somewhat higher in the eastern Gulf animals, but the organism was present to the southernmost limits of both Texas and Florida.
(17) Xylella fastidiosa , also known as olive leaf scorch, has taken hold in the Apulia region at the southernmost tip of Italy , where several thousand hectares of olive plantations are now affected.
(18) China’s space program also opened its massive fourth spacecraft launch site at Wenchang on China’s southernmost island province of Hainan in June.
(19) The southernmost cases lived in proximity to the 59th parallel.
(20) Located close to Porto Alegre (another World Cup host city) this southernmost area was largely settled by poor European migrants.