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northward

/nawrth-werd; Nautical nawr-therd/US // ˈnɔrθ wərd; Nautical ˈnɔr ðərd //UK // (ˈnɔːθwəd, nautical ˈnɔːðəd) //

向北,向北走,向北移动,向北的

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Definitions

adv.副词 adverb
  1. 1
    • : Also northwards, north·ward·ly. toward the north.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : Also north·ward·ly. moving, bearing, facing, or situated toward the north.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the northward part, direction, or point.

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Examples

  • It also passes through the plane of the solar system out between Uranus and Saturn while heading northward on the way inbound.

  • High temperatures of up to 110°F are forecast for inland portions of Southern California, northward into the Central Valley, and even stretching toward portions of the San Francisco Bay area and northern parts of the state.

  • Its movements northward and eastward for this part of its tracked swim are marked off in 50-meter increments in this diagram, while its depth is marked off in 200-meter increments.

  • For decades, single adults — particularly men — dominated the flows northward into the United States, but the number of families and minors traveling without their parents has increased substantially in recent years.

  • Using that timeline, the team found that the creatures’ northward push coincides with a dramatic decrease in CO2, which may have removed climate-related barriers, the team reports February 15 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

  • Going northward would antagonize Iraqi Sunnis, whom Washington and Baghdad are currently wooing.

  • Shifting all the supplies northward would be an enormous expense, even if those countries would allow it.

  • Egypt's future irrigation and industrial needs require a major increase in the northward flow of the Nile River.

  • He had received to the peace some complaisant Scots whose lands or dwellings lay on his northward route.

  • The furnace where the Khamsîn brewed in distant Nubia sent its warnings in advance; it was slowly travelling northward.

  • On the 22nd September at daylight after a passage of twenty-five days we saw Roderigues, five or six leagues to the northward.

  • The group consists of several islands; it is separated from the next to the northward by a channel five miles wide.

  • The most convenient watering-place is near the centre of the beach, a little to the northward of the highest hills.