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north
  1. One of the four major compass points, specifically 0°, directed toward the North Pole, and conventionally upwards on a map, abbreviated as N.
  2. The up or positive direction.
  3. Above or higher
  4. (physics) The positive or north pole of a magnet, which seeks the magnetic pole near Earth's geographic North Pole (which, for its magnetic properties, is a south pole).
northing
  1. (cartography) The distance north of a standard reference latitude.
  2. (nautical) A distance traveled northward.
  3. Examples:
    1. “These four regions divide the CBC plots into approximately equal samples around easting 45 and northing 21 of the U.K. national grid.”
      “In fact, they have lost three miles of the three hundred of northing they had so laboriously made.”
      “At Gauß-Krüger the northing is measured in kilometer as the distance of the point from the equator.”
norther
northerner
  1. A native or inhabitant of the north of a region (or of the world as a whole), such as one of the northern United States, the north of Norway, etc.
  2. Examples:
    1. “A professional northerner, the episodes she featured in seemed like a cross-promotion for spending winter in Blackpool.”
      “Mr Yar'Adua, a northerner, had served only part of one term, and northern hopefuls are already laying claim to the second.”
      “As a northerner and one of the most leftwing candidates, he is probably the most likely to get trade union endorsement for any leadership bid.”
northness
  1. A tendency in the end of a magnetic needle to point to the north.
northie
  1. (India, colloquial) Somebody from the north of India; a northerner.
northward
  1. The direction or area lying to the north of a place.
northside
  1. The northern side of a building, street, area etc.
northernism
  1. Anything characteristic of the northern part of a region.
northsider
  1. Someone living in the north side of a town, area etc.
northernness
  1. The state or quality of being northern.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Now we unashamedly use our ruralness and northernness as a brand mechanism.”
      “So I put him on the spot with series of questions cunningly designed to uncover any false northernness.”
      “A sense of northernness is a major theme in Canadian literature and the arts, but to what degree is it a part of national identity?”
northland
  1. A land that lies to the north.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Spreading his wings like a black cloud in the sky, the thunderbird flew away to the northland.”
      “After years of exaggerating the snow-vocabulary of arctic peoples, suddenly journalists everywhere are obsessed with the allegedly gaping holes in northland lexicons.”
      “The soldiers of the northland cried to him for help as often as they did to his father, Woden.”
northernization
  1. The process of northernizing.
northerliness
  1. The quality of being northerly.
northern
  1. (fishing) The northern pike.
northerly
  1. A wind blowing from the north.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The northerly brought shivers to my skin as it blew through the valley.”
northernisms
  1. plural of northernism
northerners
  1. plural of northerner
  2. Examples:
    1. “Lacking the fitness and finesse of England's vanquishers, the Edinburgh side soon found the northerners fighting their way back into the game.”
      “As it happened the group was fairly evenly divided between northerners and southerners.”
      “Perfectly timed for the coming cold comes a dose of relief for us northerners.”
northlands
  1. plural of northland
northerlies
  1. plural of northerly
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Between March and September, strong northerlies blow the whole length of the waterway.”
      “With a forecast for light northerlies we head back to Mt. Buffalo.”
      “They loom as dark shadows in the consciousness of residents of these states on summer days when strong northerlies, extreme heat, and low humidity follow a long dry period.”
northnesses
  1. plural of northness
northerns
  1. plural of northern
  2. Examples:
    1. “As is the case with northerns, the female muskie, trailed by her attendant males, may broadcast eggs over several hundred yards.”
      “We all grew up fishing in Wisconsin for bluegills, bass, walleye, northerns and muskie.”
      “Champions Eastern Province set the ball rolling with an absorbing encounter against Northerns in the A section of the men's interprovincial hockey tournament on Monday.”
northings
  1. plural of northing
northers
  1. plural of norther
  2. Examples:
    1. “Old hunters like bitter northers, too, as long as those fronts lose their punch or get swept westward by high pressure somewhere around Dallas.”
      “Birders and hunters higher up the flyway catch only fleeting glimpses of some species, especially when early, bitter northers expedite the migratory process.”
      Northers ones, like the Paulins Kill, flows through mountains.”
northies
  1. plural of northie
norths
  1. plural of north
  2. Examples:
    1. Norths and Easts were forced to endure their second washout in three weeks and will be keen to get some game time in coming weeks.”
      Norths had the opportunity in the bottom of the innings to take the game from Brothers, but conceded their fifth one run loss of the season.”
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