north

north

north (uncountable)

1. 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.

2. The up or positive direction.

   Stock prices are heading north.

3. Above or higher

   The price youre offering had better be north of the highest price this company has ever traded for. - Tom Aldredge in the movie Barbarians at the Gate

4. (physics) The positive or north pole of a magnet, which seeks the magnetic pole near Earths geographic North Pole (which, for its magnetic properties, is a south pole).

north (not comparable)

1. Of or pertaining to the north; northern.

   He lived in north Germany.

   She entered through the north gate.

2. 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.

3. (meteorology) Of wind, from the north.

   The north wind was cold.

4. 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.

north (not comparable)

1. Toward the north; northward.

   Switzerland is north of Italy.

   We headed north.

2. (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) (meteorology) Of wind, from the north.

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

	settentrione
	compass point

nordico

settentrionale

bòrea

del nord

sopra

tramontana

verso nord

Altri significati:

meterology: of wind, from the north

(physics) The positive or north pole of a magnet, which seeks Earth's magnetic North Pole (which, for its magnetic properties, is a south pole).

Of or pertaining to the north; northern.

The up or positive direction.

part of a corridor used by northbound traffic

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

Above or higher

(meteorology) Of wind, from the north.

toward the north

Toward the north; northward.

(Should we delete <sup>(+)</sup> this sense?) (meteorology) Of wind, from the north.

towards the north

up or positive direction

north pole of a magnet

of or pertaining to the north

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