(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.
Zephyr
Definition:
(n.) The west wind; poetically, any soft, gentle breeze.
Example Sentences:
(1) Fully refined rapessed oils of high (regular rapeseed oil, B. campestris) and low erucic acid content (Span oil, B. campestris; commercially hydrogenated Span oil and Zephyr oil, B. napus) and soybean oil were fed to male and female Sprague-Dawley rats at a level of 15% by weight in the diet.
(2) Ford's motorsport supremo Walter Hayes had fallen into conversation with the film producer Albert "Cubby" Broccoli, with the result that AMR suddenly found itself building a handful of Ford Zephyr-engined cars for Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968).
(3) This will include a weaponised Zephyr drone that is capable of remaining in the air for months.
(4) Zephyr Teachout (@ZephyrTeachout) Clinton ad announcing campaign is surprisingly free of content, lacking autobiography, policy, vision.
(5) The resolution of IgG and its fragments was better in all cases on S-Zephyr than on Mono-S under the conditions employed.
(6) Rats from all strains except Hooded fed the diet containing 20% Zephyr RSO had a significantly (P less than 0.001) higher incidence of myocardial lesions than rats fed the 20% corn oil diet which in turn had a significantly (P less than 0.001) higher incidence than rats fed 5% corn oil.
(7) S-Zephyr, a new column material for high performance cation exchange chromatography of proteins, is compared with Mono-S.
(8) I think Biden will have a hard time getting a lot of populist energy if he doesn’t come out with a strong contrast to Clinton on all these issues,” says Zephyr Teachout, a New York law professor and prominent supporter of Warren.
(9) None of the Hooded rats fed the diet containing 20% Zephyr RSO developed myocardial lesions whereas all other strains fed this diet developed a high incidence of myocardial lesions.
(10) They walked out after discovering that men doing the same work – making car seats for Cortinas and Zephyrs – were being paid 15% more.
(11) Zuckerberg said key members of the team were from the UK-based firm Ascenta, which created early versions of Zephyr, the world's longest flying solar-powered unmanned aircraft.
(12) However, in experiment 2 the groups fed the diets containing regular rapeseed oil or Span oil showed significantly (P less than 0.05) lower body weight gains when compared to soybean oil fed groups but not when compared to the hydrogenated Span or Zephyr oil fed groups.
(13) Zephyr on enzymic incubation yielded comparable amounts of thiocyanate ion, suggesting that the precursor responsible in the two varieties was the same and present in similar quantities.
(14) Meanwhile, Cuomo has been busy spending $2.5m every two weeks to fend off his progressive primary challenger, Zephyr Teachout .
(15) Monarchy and equality are incompatible bedfellows, but it would be churlish not to welcome the news that a zephyr of egalitarian zeal has at last blown through court and political circles.
(16) Ian Dowding and his mother and sister sitting on the (hot) roof of his dad’s Ford Zephyr in Cornwall 1956.
(17) Zephyr) showed the presence of t,iocyanate ion, while meal from heated seed of the same cultivar did not show detectable amounts.
(18) Rats fed a diet containing 20% Zephyr rapeseed oil showed a significantly (P less than 0.001) higher incidence of heart lesions than did rats fed diets containing 5% or 20% corn oil.
(19) I was not particularly impressed with it,” said Zephyr Teachout, a New York Democrat who ran for governor in 2014, warning on Twitter it was “surprisingly free of content, lacking autobiography, policy [and] vision”.
(20) Take Zephyr Teachout, a law professor at Fordham university who has written extensively on political corruption in the US.