north-northwest
西北偏北,西北偏北方向,西北偏北地区,西北地区
Definitions
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- : the point on the compass midway between north and northwest. Abbreviation: NNW
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- : coming from this point: a north-northwest wind.
- : directed toward this point: a north-northwest course.
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- : toward this point: sailing north-northwest.
Examples
According to Pew, 14 of the 20 countries in the Middle East and North Africa have blasphemy laws.
They took cover inside a print works to the north east of Paris, where they held a member of staff as a hostage.
The new information consisted of Internet protocol addresses that Comey said are “exclusively used” by North Korea.
Current and former intelligence officials have said North Korea has long been a priority target for American spies.
There were also the fleshy remains of the seniors who migrated to Florida from all points north.
Between South and North, the probabilities of a serious, and no very distant rupture, are strong and manifest.
Two Battalions racing due North along the coast and foothills with levelled bayonets.
Now, the whole Northwest groaned beneath a cast-iron prohibition law at that time, and for some years thereafter.
Henry Hudson sailed from Gravesend on his first voyage for the discovery of a northwest passage to India.
Turn we our backs to the cold gloomy north, to the wet windy west, to the dry parching east—on to the south!