Word Finder - north

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One of the four major compass points, specifically 0°, directed toward the North Pole, and conventionally upwards on a map, abbreviated as N.

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Minnesota is in the north of the USA.

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The up or positive direction.

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Stock prices are heading north.

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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).

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To turn or move toward the north.

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Of or pertaining to the north; northern.

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He lived in north Germany.

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Toward the north; northward.

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Of wind, from the north.

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The north wind was cold.

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Pertaining to the part of a corridor used by northbound traffic.

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north highway 1

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More or greater than.

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The wedding ended up costing north of $50,000.

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Toward the north; northward; northerly.

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Switzerland is north of Italy.

Jenn looked north and began walking.

Dean was several miles north of Ridgway, fifteen miles from Ouray.

One north, one south, Brady answered.

Jackson was thrilled at the thought of spending a decade or so at his favorite home, claiming North America to be fresh and new.

Yes, there is a light on North Street.

As inconvenient as it would be, Betsy and I would continue to travel north each weekend, flying at Howie's expense.

There was a Smith and a Jones, each with local addresses that sounded fake, and Zeke Ambrowski of Raleigh, North Carolina.

I want to check the fence line before I turn the buffalo into the north pasture.

I can't remember the name of it, but I think I would have remembered North Street.

Of course, it wasn't native to North America, but neither were her goats.

You will be glad to hear that my mother, and little sister and brother are coming north to spend this summer with me.

The north wind had already begun to cool the pond, though it took many weeks of steady blowing to accomplish it, it is so deep.

A "plump" of ducks rose at the same time and took the route to the north in the wake of their noisier cousins.

Still, goats and sheep had been in North America for hundreds of years.

White tailed deer, as well as an abundance of smaller wildlife already frequented the ranch, so his North American Safari had its foundation.

With her large, warm brown eyes, plumped lips, and fingers stopped just north of his belt, Darian began to believe her about not needing her magic.

One stronghold was in the north, in which they stood, and one in the south near the entrance to the desert.

I was in the North, enjoying the last beautiful days of the summer of 1896, when I heard the news of my father's death.

The illustrative strings and the orange stick representing the poles seemed so real that even to this day the mere mention of temperate zone suggests a series of twine circles; and I believe that if any one should set about it he could convince me that white bears actually climb the North Pole.

He has two neighbours, who live still farther north; one is King Winter, a cross and churlish old monarch, who is hard and cruel, and delights in making the poor suffer and weep; but the other neighbour is Santa Claus, a fine, good-natured, jolly old soul, who loves to do good, and who brings presents to the poor, and to nice little children at Christmas.

One real runaway slave, among the rest, whom I helped to forward toward the north star.

Bordeaux said it was north of Ashley, or was it north of the desert?

It was with much anticipation we drove north on another Friday afternoon.

Betsy and I reluctantly agreed, also agreeing to travel north the following weekend.

Neither spoke, and the chauffeur took them north, instead of south towards home.

The Dexter Creek Road departed from the highway a few miles north of town and climbed sharply up the eastern escarpment of the valley.

The last time I said anything, all my men in North America disappeared.

Kris was next in size, standing on a mural of North America.

By highway, the journey was fifty miles—ten miles north to Ridgway, then westerly to Placerville and then back toward the southeast, all necessary to circumnavigate fourteen-thousand foot Mount Sneffles and its towering neighbors.

The late afternoon was delightful as he wound his way through the city streets north of town.

Although Hunter had been born in North Carolina—on 16 acres of red mud, as he described it—he'd moved to Norfolk in high school and never left.

When you've finished we'll stuff it all in the suitcase and you can haul it back up north to her.

Alex planned to make it a safari of North American wildlife.

The sun peered over the ocean to the north while blooming apple trees sprinkled their flowers into piles in a cool sea breeze.

The grant finally came into the possession of Thomas, Lord Fairfax, and in 1746 a stone was erected at the source of the north branch of the Potomac to mark the western limit of the grant.

This depression runs nearly from north to south, from the Gulf of Asinara to the Gulf of Cagliari.

There are three jetties, north, east and south.

He showed extraordinary energy, resource and military talent in stemming the advance of the royalists, who now followed up their victories by advancing into the association; he defeated them at Gainsborough on the 28th of July, and managed a masterly retreat before overwhelming numbers to Lincoln, while the victory on the 11th of October at Winceby finally secured the association, and maintained the wedge which prevented the junction of the royalists in the north with the king in the south.

The Via Flaminia was the earliest and most important road to the north; and it was soon extended (in 187 B.C.) by the Via Aemilia running through Bononia as far as Placentia, in an almost absolutely straight line between the plain of the P0 and the foot of the Apennines.

Now, mere geographical considerations, taken from the situation and configuration of the islands of the so-called Indian or Malay Archipelago, would indicate that they extended in an unbroken series from the shores of the Strait of Malacca to the southern coast of New Guinea, which confronts that of north Australia in Torres Strait, or even farther to the eastward.

The differences between the Neotropical avifauna and that of North America are fundamental and prove the independence or superior value of the Neotropical region as one of the principal realms.

The HoLARCTIC Region, comprising North America and the extratropical mass of land of the Old World, may from an ornithological point of view be characterized by the Colymbi, Alcidae, Gallidae or Alectoropodous Galli, and the Oscines, which have here reached their highest development; while Ratitae, Tinami, Psittaci, and non-Oscine Passeres (with the exception of Tyrannidae extending into North America and Conurus carolinensis) are absent.

The close affinity of North America with the Palaearctic avifauna becomes at once apparent if we exclude those groups of birds which we have good reason to believe have their original home in the Neotropical region, notably numerous Tyrannidae, humming-birds and the turkey-buzzards.

He walked up and down the river bank, leading his horse behind him; but he kept his eyes turned always toward the dim, dark spot which he knew was the old North Church.

Fifteen new nations formed as the Soviet Union dissolved; Czechoslovakia split into the Czech Republic and Slovakia, and Sudan into North Sudan and South Sudan.

The storm is swallowing up the levies, and we sent folks north.

Skidding, half on his feet, half on his seat, he had negotiated a hundred yards further when a glowing flash brightened the sky to the north.

Brady looked from the injured man to the streaks of red in the sky, which were answered by two more streaks to the north.

Someone sent them south instead of north.

Tony will go north.