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The direction of the cardinal compass point halfway between south and east, specifically 135°, abbreviated as SE.
adjective
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Southeastern, southeasternmost; occupying a position that is relatively southeast of another.
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Towards the southeast; southeastwards.
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From the southeast, southeasterly.
Examples of southeast in a Sentence
The extensive forest of Eu lies to the southeast of the town.
From May until October the prevailing wind is southeast, from November to January it is north, and from February to April it is east.
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The South Equatorial Current is produced by the southeast trades, and is more vigorous than its northern counterpart.
It is mountainous in the south and southeast, while in the north, west and south-west it is flat and in some places marshy.
The Roman town lay immediately to the southeast of the modern; its north-western wall is marked by the modern Corso Umberto I.
All these princes held territory in the southeast of France, and had a close connexion with Italy.
In the south are flat, fertile and thickly wooded plains, which give place to jungle at the foot of the hills of Dar Nuba, the district forming the southeast part of Kordofan.
He started to enter the first room, on the northwest corner, but Cynthia tugged him further down the hall until they reached Edith Shipton's room on the southeast corner.
On the southeast Kara Bay penetrates deeply into the mainland, and to the west of this the short Kara river enters the sea.
The steepest incline outside loo fathoms is to the southeast of the Crimea and at Amastra; the incline to the greater depths is also steep off the Caucasus and between Trebizond and Batum.
Three or four days' journey east and southeast of Besha are the encampments of the Bani Kahtan, one of the most ancient tribes of Arabia; their pastures extend into the adjoining district of Nejd, where they breed camels in large numbers, as well as a few horses.
Traces of a large Roman camp may still be seen to the southeast of Wiveliscombe (Wellescombe, Wilscombe, Wiviscombe), which is near the line of a Roman road, and hoards of Roman coins have been discovered in the neighbourhood.
Farther to the north two lesser ranges running parallel to the main chain traverse the centre of the department from southeast to north-west.
It appears to have denoted the territory above Babylonia stretching from Anshan in the southeast north-westwards, across the Tigris-Euphrates district, indefinitely towards Asia Minor.
From the Maloja Pass the main watershed dips to the southeast for a short distance, and then runs eastwards and nearly over the highest summit of the Bernina group, the Piz Bernina (13,304 ft.), to the Bernina Pass.
The plain of Tur`an, southeast of El-Buttauf, is smaller, but equally fertile.
Two miles southeast of this lake, at North Elba, is the old farm of the abolitionist John Brown, which contains his grave and is much frequented by visitors.
The islands are mainly of volcanic origin, and their surface is much broken by hills, isolated volcanoes and mountain ranges, trending north and south, north-west and southeast, or north-east and south-west.
Sweden itself may be considered in four main physical divisions - the mountains and highland district, covering all Norrland and the western part of Svealand; the lowlands of central Sweden; the so-called Sma.land highlands, in the south and southeast; and the plains of Ska.ne, occupying the extreme southward projection of the peninsula.
The watershed between the Rhine and the Eem is formed by a plateau of sand and gravel hills which extend from the southeast corner on the Rhine to Zeist near Utrecht, and also northwards to Huizen on the Zuider Zee.
These ranges lie for the most part north-east and southeast, as do those in the interior, with a marked exception between Teheran and Bujnurd, and in Baluchistan, where they lie rather north-east and south-west, or, in the latter case, sometimes east and west.
The eastern rampart of this great plateau is formed by the Cordillera Oriental, which extends north-west into Peru under the name of Carabaya, and south to the frontier in broken ranges, one of which trends southeast in the vicinity of Sucre.
In the first part of its course, which may be said to end at Dorogobuzh, it flows through an undulating country of Carboniferous formation; in the second it passes west to Orsha, south through the fertile plain of Chernigov and Kiev, and then southeast across the rocky steppe of the Ukraine to Ekaterinoslay.
The chief sierras, or ranges, are those of Maria, in the north; Estancias and Oria, north of the Almanzora river; Filabres, in the middle of the province; Cabrera and Gata, along the southeast coast; Alhamilla, east of the city of Almeria; Gador in the south-west; and, in the west, some outlying ridges of the Sierra Nevada.
The total output for the state in 1908 was 114,459 tons, valued at $12,134,556; of this 116,J31 tons came from the central and southeast field, and of the remainder 15,240 tons from the Webb CityProsperity camp. Zinc was originally a hindering by-product of lead mining in the south-west, and was thrown away; but it long ago became the chief product in value in this field.
Thus while the coast-lands, especially in the southeast, enjoy an ample rainfall, the winds as they advance west and north contain less and less moisture, so that over the larger part of the country drought is common and severe.
The life of all of these save the last two goes back to Territorial days; but the importance of Fort Scott, like that of Galena and Pittsburg, is due to the development of the mineral counties in the southeast.
Nearly all these border ranges rise abruptly and to great heights from the plains on the north or north-west, but have a much shorter and easier descent on the south or southeast.
Hence on beaches and in rivers, such as those of the southeast of England, flint pebbles exist in vast numbers.
The Combahee and the Edisto, in the southeast, and the Black, north of the Santee, are the principal rivers that rise within the Coastal Plain and flow direct to the ocean.
At this point it changes its direction to the southeast, and passing along the southern slopes of the Bavarian Forest enters Austria at Passau (height Boo ft.).
On a height immediately to the southeast is the ruined castle of Klopp, on the site of a fortress founded by Drusus, and higher still the celebrated chapel of St Roch (rebuilt in 1895 after a fire), where thousands of pilgrims gather on the first Sunday after the 16th of August.
Sir, this is Speck in Ohio, Southeast Sector.
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.
However, in 1938 a live coelacanth was caught off the southeast coast of Africa!
Southeast along the coast from Waikiki is the area's most famous landmark, the extinct volcanic cone of Diamond Head.
In winter, groups of Sand Tiger sharks often congregate close to the large overhang on the southeast side.
The fireplace at the southeast end is supported on a heavy molded stone corbel which shows in the passage beneath.
The Black Death hit southeast Wales hard, with certain manors almost totally depopulated.
This is internally embanked on the east and southeast and has been subsequently terraced.
The business founded by entrepreneur Colin Chapman moved from southeast England to a former airfield at Hethel, near Wymondham, in 1966.
A small area of grazed floodplain grassland with shallow ponds occurs by the River Clyde, southeast of Barons Haugh.
Turkey fought Kurdish guerrillas for 15 years in the southeast of the nation.
They hunt at dusk and at night, filling a similar niche to the clouded leopards of Southeast Asia.
At the southeast is a cinquefoiled piscina, and adjoining it on the west a single sedile with an ogee head cinquefoiled.
At the southeast angle is a trefoiled piscina with a modern bowl.
The surface of the basalt plateau is rolling, with a series of broad ridges aligned northwest to southeast.
In Bath a great cathedral priory engulfed the whole southeast quarter of the city.
Other identities appearing inside MEP include purple (13 ), with small clusters in the southwest and southeast.