What's the difference between southerly and southward?

Southerly


Definition:

  • (a.) Southern.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We can’t escape each other and get on our iPhones.” Malta, one of the European Union’s most southerly points, was an ideal starting place for a three-week cruise to Tunisia and along the coast of Sicily, not far from Calabria, the southern toe of Italy .
  • (2) This extreme coincided with exceptionally strong northerly winds, which were followed by an abrupt southerly change.
  • (3) Inexperience of travel, smoking, more southerly travel and younger age (particularly those between 20- and 29-years-old) were other contributing factors.
  • (4) Similarly, the highest mean proportion of high values (66,3%) was seen in the most southerly group studied.
  • (5) A more southerly population of ocean pout from New Brunswick in which the circulating antifreeze protein levels are considerably lower has approximately one-quater as many antifreeze protein genes.
  • (6) Moor Sands, Prawle Point, south Devon The dramatic Prawle Point coastline, between Salcombe and Dartmouth, is the most southerly point in Devon and offers some of the finest hidden coves in the UK.
  • (7) In Sydney on Wednesday the temperature is forecast to be 35C in the city and 42C in the west but a cool southerly change will begin to pass through the city about midday.
  • (8) Sydney mother to face court after four children found in car in heatwave Read more “We do have a southerly change on the way, so we’ll see cooler conditions for southern parts of the state [on Wednesday],” BoM spokeswoman Sarah Chadwick said on Tuesday.
  • (9) Analysis of MS prevalence rates amongst migrant populations in Queensland as compared to the more southerly city of Perth in Western Australia, suggested that the risk of acquisition of MS may extend over a wider age range than is generally accepted.
  • (10) Southerly winds brought warm air in from the continent and the settled conditions resulted in sunshine to that part of Wales ,” she said.
  • (11) Conditions have been unusually tough and at times very frustrating with a frequent southerly drift pushing us backwards every time we camped for the night.
  • (12) Since no evidence of a rodent epizootic was uncovered in the village itself, and because of the distinct clustering of the bubonic cases, human-to-human spread of plague by infected ectoparasite vectors, presumably Pulex irritans, is thought to have occurred.This focus probably represents the most southerly boundary of the central Asian plague area yet identified.
  • (13) The extent of sea ice is strongly influenced by the strength and direction of the winds and the increase in storms has given more warm, northerly flow over the Bellingshausen Sea and greater cold, southerlies over the Ross Sea.
  • (14) I think it’s a more southerly thing, politics now Facebook Twitter Pinterest Labour party candidate Paula Sherriff campaigning in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire.
  • (15) Although the first two hypotheses were rejected, states with sodomy laws scored significantly higher than states without such laws on Gastil's Index of Southerness.
  • (16) That’s what we have been embracing during a 1,500-day, 44,000-mile campervan trip that’s taken my husband Jeremy and I to hundreds of camping spots – from Colombia’s Caribbean coast through deserts and plains, around volcanoes and over the Andes down to the continent’s most southerly tip: wind-whipped Tierra del Fuego.
  • (17) Distances of 1250-1350 km are traversed in 18-24 h at heights up to 1.5 km with temperatures greater than or equal to 13 degrees C. Landing takes place where the warm southerly winds meet cold fronts associated with rain.
  • (18) I knew Jackson Browne and John David Souther better than anybody."
  • (19) 600 miles, 965 km) on strong easterly to southerly prevailing winds.
  • (20) And into this advanced decomposition other deathly winds are blowing: Islamic State the sirocco of the north; and al-Qaida, the southerly harmattan sweeping up from Niger and Mali.

Southward


Definition:

  • (adv.) Alt. of Southwards
  • (a.) Toward the south.
  • (n.) The southern regions or countries; the south.

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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