north
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[edit] Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA: /nɔː(ɹ)θ/, SAMPA: /nO:(r)T/
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Audio (UK) (file) - Rhymes: -ɔː(r)θ
- (US) IPA: /noːɻθ/, SAMPA: /no:r\`T/
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Audio (US) (file) - (NY) IPA: /nɔəθ/, SAMPA: /nO@T/
[edit] Etymology
Middle English, from Old English norþ, cognate with various Germanic counterparts such as Dutch noord(en), all from a Proto-Germanic root *nurþan, and cognate with Greek νέρτερος (nerteros, “infernal, lower”) possibly all ultimately from a Proto-Indo-European root *ner- "left, below", as north is to the left when one faces the rising sun
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north (uncountable)
- One of the four major compass points, specifically 0°, directed toward the North Pole, and conventionally upwards on a map.
- Minnesota is in the north of the USA.
- The up or positive direction.
- Stock prices are heading north.
- Above or higher
- The price you're offering had better be north of the highest price this company has ever traded for. - Tom Aldredge in the movie Barbarians at the Gate
- (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).
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compass point
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north pole of a magnet
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north (not comparable)
- Of or pertaining to the north; northern.
- He lived in north Germany.
- She entered through the north gate.
- Toward the north; northward.
- 1987, Ana María Brull Vázquez, Rosa E. Casas, Cuba, page 23:
- The most dangerous ones are those that develop during October and November and that follow a north path affecting the western part of the island.
- 1987, Ana María Brull Vázquez, Rosa E. Casas, Cuba, page 23:
- (meteorology) Of wind, from the north.
- The north wind was cold.
- Pertaining to the part of a corridor used by northbound traffic.
- north highway 1
- 2001, Joseph R Miller, Pipe Tobacco and Wool:
- Traffic was doing the speed limit on North I-45 one minute and had come to a stand-still the next.
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- (of the north): boreal
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of or pertaining to the north
toward the north
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meterology: of wind, from the north
part of a corridor used by northbound traffic
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[edit] Adverb
north (not comparable)
- Toward the north; northward.
- Switzerland is north of Italy.
- We headed north.
- (Can we verify(+) this sense?) (meteorology) Of wind, from the north.
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towards the north
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of wind: from the north
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