(a.) Of or pertaining to the west; toward the west; coming from the west; western.
(adv.) Toward the west; westward.
Example Sentences:
(1) For at least a week, there will be cold north-westerly winds.
(2) 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.
(3) A westerly gale meant that almost every wind turbine in the UK would have been producing close to its maximum output.
(4) Martin Babakhan, a meteorologist and lecturer at Australia’s University of Newcastle, said that since the satellite images were taken the objects found could have moved “about 200 or 300 kilometres from the original location” in a westerly direction, closer to Australia.
(5) The 40 or so demoralised troops headed out of town in a westerly direction.
(6) While the wind was blowing hard across our westerly coasts at the weekend, large parts of the Continent were calm and could have usefully imported our surplus.
(7) A quick tumble down a dune from the car park, Porth Iago is the sandiest and has a perfect south-westerly orientation and clear blue waters, which are ideal for swimming and kayaking.
(8) All Visehrad countries were bordering the west and either the richest or most westernised parts of the bloc – although of course half of Poland is neither rich nor westerly.
(9) The report by Linley-Adams, acting for the owners of the rights to Ullapool river in Wester Ross, details alleged government failures to designate an appropriate number of west coast Scottish rivers as special areas for conservation for the protection of wild Atlantic salmon under the European commission's habitats directive.
(10) The wettest location was Cluanie Inn, Wester Ross, which had 188mm of rain, while the driest was Leconfield in the East Riding of Yorkshire.
(11) They [the weather systems] have strong winds associated with them, and the wind direction also changes between south westerly and north westerly, depending on where you are in relation to these cold fronts,” she said.
(12) Wester, who was there, was still serving as the conference’s spokesman.
(13) cambridgeonline.co.uk ID154350 Applecross River, Wester Ross, Scotland The river meets a huge expanse of sand at Applecross Bay.
(14) The next morning, Wester arrived for his first official day on the job as Archbishop of Santa Fe, at the archdiocese headquarters located on the west side of the Rio Grande, across from downtown Albuquerque.
(15) The incidence of Burkitt's tumour appears to be lower in the easterly Igbos than in the ethnic groups living in the westerly part of Nigeria.
(16) "Because it is northerly and north-westerly winds, it is largely northern and western Scotland that will get the snow showers but some will get into Northern Ireland, north-west England and north Wales as well.
(17) Bells will be ringing everywhere from Britain's northernmost inhabited house in Skaw in the Shetland Islands to the UK's most westerly church in Tresco in the Scilly Isles.
(18) For females, a pattern of increasing suicide with more westerly location was also found, except that Ontario and the Prairie Provinces were in reverse order.
(19) "Movements in the track of the jet stream, a narrow band of fast-flowing westerly winds high in the atmosphere, have contributed to the weather we have seen," a Met Office spokesman said.
(20) Four satellite building sites which were built within the past 25 years in the westerly part of Copenhagen were investigated for the frequency of inpatient admissions in the regional psychiatric department in 1985.
Western
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the west; situated in the west, or in the region nearly in the direction of west; being in that quarter where the sun sets; as, the western shore of France; the western ocean.
(a.) Moving toward the west; as, a ship makes a western course; coming from the west; as, a western breeze.
Example Sentences:
(1) Furthermore, their distribution in various ethnic groups residing in different districts of Rajasthan state (Western-India) is also reviewed.
(2) Western blot analysis of these mitochondria using an antibody against carnitine palmitoyltransferase II purified from beef heart demonstrates a 68-kDa protein, which under ischemic conditions apparently is decreased by 2 kDa.
(3) The epidemiology of HIV infection among women and hence among children has progressively changed since the onset of the epidemic in Western countries.
(4) On 9 January 2002, a few hours after Blair became the first western leader to visit Afghanistan's new post-Taliban leader, Hamid Karzai, an aircraft carrying the first group of MI5 interrogators touched down at Bagram airfield, 32 miles north of Kabul.
(5) Some international coverage of the outbreak was accused of misinforming western readers.
(6) Given Australia’s number one position as the worst carbon emitter per capita among major western nations it seems hardly surprising that islanders from Fiji, Samoa, Vanuatu and other small island developing states have been turning to Australia with growing exasperation demanding the country demonstrate an appropriate response and responsibility.
(7) In addition to performing Northern and Western blots for tyrosinase, tyrosine hydroxylase activity (THA) and dopa oxidase activity (DOA) were measured.
(8) After Western blot, 2 of the 5 protein bands of swine-cag (27 and 57 kD) and 3 of the 8 protein bands of human cag (27, 32, and 57 kD) reacted with the anti-Toxoplasma antibody used in the ELISA.
(9) Alcohol abuse remains the predominant cause of chronic liver disease in the Western world.
(10) Hyperimmunization with the tick encephalitis and Western horse encephalomyelitis viruses reproduced in the brain of albino mice, intensified the protein synthesis in the splenic tissue during the productive phase of the immunogenesis (the 7th day).
(11) Mieko Nagaoka took just under an hour and 16 minutes to finish the race as the sole competitor in the 100 to 104-year-old category at a short course pool in Ehime, western Japan , on Saturday.
(12) True, Syria subsequently disarmed itself of chemical weapons, but this was after the climbdown on bombing had shown western public opinion had no appetite for another war of choice.
(13) Nearly four months into the conflict, rebels control large parts of eastern Libya , the coastal city of Misrata, and a string of towns in the western mountains, near the border with Tunisia.
(14) Three distinct antigenic regions of bovine somatotropin (bST) were identified on the basis of the ability of a set of monoclonal antibodies to bind to proteolytic fragments and deletion variants of recombinant bST (rbST) in Western blot analyses.
(15) They operate on a mystical and symbolic plane, which is foreign to the practice of "Western" medicine.
(16) David Hamilton tells me: “The days of westerners leading expeditions to Nepal will pass.
(17) Western diplomats acknowledge that the capture of Qusair is likely to have emboldened President Bashar al-Assad , making him less likely to consider concessions – let alone stepping down.
(18) Living by the "Big River" as a child, Cash soaked up work songs, church music, and country & western from radio station WMPS in Memphis, or the broadcasts from Nashville's Grand Ole Opry on Friday and Saturday evenings.
(19) Accidental injury is the leading cause of death in persons between the ages of 1 and 50 years in our Western society.
(20) Stool weights, defecation frequencies, and transit times in this group are much closer to those of westernized whites than to rural blacks.