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The compass point halfway between north and east, specifically 45°, abbreviated as NE.
adjective
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Towards the northeast; northeastward.
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In the northeast; northeastern.
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From the northeast, northeasterly.
Examples of northeast in a Sentence
It extends from south-west to northeast about 230 m.
On the Swahili coast the south-east monsoon begins in April and the northeast monsoon in November.
Zizania aquatica (Tuscarora or Indian rice) is a reed-like grass growing over large areas on banks of streams and lakes in North America and northeast Asia.
On the northeast side of the square are the public markets.
But in the northeast, in Khorasan, meanwhile a storm had arisen, against which his resources and his wisdom were alike of no avail.
The only true glacier is on the northeast side, at the bottom of a large chasm which runs into the heart of the mountain.
Nicaragua comes within the zone of the wet northeast trade-winds, which sweep inland from the Atlantic. The rainfall is heavy along the west side of the lacustrine basin, with an annual mean at Rivas of 102 in., but this figure is sometimes greatly exceeded on the east coast, where rain is common even in the dry season.
To the northeast of the town is the Solfatura, a half extinct volcano crater, in which sulphurous gases are exhaled.
As the Mahommedan power consolidated itself in Bengal, repeated expeditions were sent out against these river pirates of the northeast.
Persias great aim was to recover in the north-west, as in the northeast of her empire, the geographical limits obtained for her by the Safawid kings; and this was no easy matter when she had to contend with a strong European power whose territorial limits touched her own.
The mean annual temperature diminishes very regularly from south-west to northeast, the west coast being warmer than the east, so that the mean temperature at the mouth of the Mersey is as high as that at the mouth of the Thames.
Where the strata are not uniformly porous, they may resist the passage of water from the direction of the sea or they may assist it; and round the whole coast of England, in the Magnesian limestone to the northeast, in the Chalk and Greensand to the east and south, and in the New Red Sandstone to the west, the number of wells which have been abandoned as sources of potable supply, owing to the percolation of sea water, is very great.
Beyond the Middelbank the Danziger Tiefe, an isolated depression, lies to the south-east, while to the northeast the Gotland basin, the largest and deepest of all, extends north-eastwards to the Gulf of Finland.
The remainder consists of a region of heaths and plateaus to the northeast of the Gave de Pau, and of hills divided by numberless fertile valleys to the west of that river.
It will be enough to say here that the mountainous region belongs to the great orographical flange which runs from south-west to northeast along the north-western margin of the great plateau of Central Asia.
Then it turns northeast via Mer y to Bokhara and Samarkand, the total distance being 94 0 m.
In the middle of Hungary a line of hills rises above the plain, striking from the Platten See towards the northeast, where it merges into the inner girdle of the Carpathian chain.
The rest of the county, comprising all its south-east portions between the Middle Oolite belt and the sea, all its northeast portions between the chalk belt and the sea, and a narrow tract up the course of the Ancholme river, consists of alluvial deposits or of reclaimed marsh.
After the desert region is past the Niger receives the waters of the river Sokoto, a considerable stream flowing from the northeast.
Of these chains, to which Spanish geographers give the name Carpetano-Vetonica, the most easterly is the Sierra de Guadarrama, the general trend of which is from south-west to northeast.
In the northeast the ridges are more numerous and higher than in the southwest, where White Oak Ridge and Taylor's Mountain are among the highest, although Missionary and Chickamauga Ridges are better known, because of their association with battles of the Civil War.
During this period the Pamir and West Nuristan blocks of northeast Afghanistan were also accreted onto Eurasia.
The most recent such episode has given the archipelago a tilt toward the northeast.
Bath & Northeast Somerset Attractions Bath offers the finest Georgian architecture in the country.
My main interests are in studying many aspects of the common dolphin population in the Northeast Atlantic, and reproductive biology in small cetaceans.
The Dogger Bank lies in the North Sea about 100 km (60 miles) off England's northeast coast.
North Northumberland Dunes Northumberland North Northumberland Dunes represents embryonic shifting dunes in northeast England.
Houghton Le Spring Houghton le Spring sits at the foot of the magnesium limestone escarpment northeast of Durham.
The British Isles represent the northern extremity of the range in the northeast Atlantic, which extends south to Morocco.
Mortlach Moss Aberdeenshire This small base-rich basin fen, lying upon igneous rock, is representative of Alkaline fens in northeast Scotland.
It joins historic Sherwood Forest in the Northeast and curves round to Attenborough in the southwest.
The once extensive 3ft 0in gage ironstone system at Eastwell in northeast Leicestershire also had a snowplow.
A flock of about a dozen jackdaws foraged around the green mown grass of the Holmbush roundabout, northeast Shoreham.
Rural medieval pottery kilns in northeast England are rare.
The Cove at Stanton marks the minor southern midsummer setting as viewed from the northeast circle.
Kufah lies 10 miles northeast of Najaf, a major Shiite religious center.
Most rain, however, falls during the northeast monsoon (November to March ).
The best time to visit is between November and March during the northeast monsoon when it is dry with very little wind.
Other buildings included a mortuary at the northeast of the site.
Lausanne is located some 60 km northeast of Geneva.
Location Hogganfield Park Cumbernauld Road Robroyston Glasgow G33 The park lies 5km northeast of Glasgow city center.
We are looking for an experienced Clinical Nurse Advisor to cover the northeast.
The total cost of both surveys is £ 65k and they are being funded by One northeast, through the TyneWear Partnership.
The aim was to build three game hides in the far northeast of Namibia, near to the border with Botswana.
Leaving the Auvergne region behind, the tour continues as we cross the Rhone Valley and head northeast toward the French Alps.
As well as Korea, the drought has hit much of Northeast Asia including northern China and Mongolia.
Part of the complex northeast ridge of Scafell Pike, it looms large in the mountain panorama south of Borrowdale.
This is situated in the northeast quadrant of the city close to the eastern section of the city wall.
It swings northeast, along the Almond valley, giving views of the magnificent canal viaduct ahead.
In the northeast and along the western corridor are low lightly wooded mountain ranges of mainly volcanic origin.