What's the difference between south and southwardly?

South


Definition:

  • (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.

Southwardly


Definition:

  • (adv.) In a southern direction.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The result was to shift the intertropical convergence zone southwards.
  • (2) YouTube today is the biggest music service on the planet, thanks to our artists, our fans, our partners and the millions of official music videos, remixes, covers, mashups … you name it,” YouTube’s music content partnerships boss, Anjali Southward, told the Guardian.
  • (3) When a boat’s hull was packed with human cargo, it would depart southward to Thailand or Malaysia.
  • (4) 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.
  • (5) 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.
  • (6) Both share a conviction that the Christian world's centre of gravity is moving southwards.
  • (7) So this very strong jet stream has kept this cold air locked in, and then suddenly it's been allowed to be released, sort of splurged out southwards, due to various meteorological factors.
  • (8) Aedes furcifer was collected for the first time at Durban, extending its distribution southward to latitude 29 degrees 53' S.
  • (9) But despite a UN security council resolution and unanimous approval , the plan had got nowhere when the al-Qaida affiliated Islamist groups began an offensive southwards, easily overcoming Malian army resistance.
  • (10) The interstate highway may have been a barrier to deer movement which slowed the southward dispersal of Ixodes dammini.
  • (11) Macronyssid mites (Radfordiella) have been found in the oral mucosa of the long-nosed bat (Leptonycteris nivalis), which occurs from Texas southward throughout much of Mexico.
  • (12) Authentic Scottish Labour, no longer a “branch office” of the party in Westminster, needs to keep top talent at Holyrood, after eons of brain-drain southwards.
  • (13) In desert territories situated southwards from the oasis phenological dates pass ahead those for the oasis for about 10 days.
  • (14) Geographically, the epidemic moved eastward and southward in the state.
  • (15) 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.
  • (16) There had long been a debate about what led to the decline of Angkor and the southward move of the Khmer seat of power.
  • (17) During the medieval period the entry of Islam in the subcontinent brought with it a Persian tradition of poetry, painting and music that spread from Afghanistan southwards.
  • (18) Major job losses since the early 1980s were heaviest in the central belt of Scotland, the north-east of England, along a line that stretches along the M62 from Liverpool to Hull, and extends southwards down the M1 into the Midlands.
  • (19) Throughout the desert areas southward from oasis all phenological phenomena take place in both species ten days earlier than in oasis.
  • (20) We are a very successful ad-supported business to date, and we have paid out over a billion dollars to the music industry,” said Southward.

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