Word Meanings - NORTHEAST - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The point between the north and east, at an equal distance from each; the northeast part or region.
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- NORTHERNMOST
Farthest north. - EQUAL
1. One not inferior or superior to another; one having the same or a similar age, rank, station, office, talents, strength, or other quality or condition; an equal quantity or number; as, "If equals be taken from equals the remainders are equal." - POINT
puncta, fr. pungere, punctum, to prick. See Pungent, and cf. Puncto, 1. That which pricks or pierces; the sharp end of anything, esp. the sharp end of a piercing instrument, as a needle or a pin. 2. An instrument which pricks or pierces, as a sort - DISTANCE
1. To place at a distance or remotely. I heard nothing thereof at Oxford, being then miles distanced thence. Fuller. 2. To cause to appear as if at a distance; to make seem remote. His peculiar art of distancing an object to aggrandize his space. - NORTHERN
1. Of or pertaining to the north; being in the north, or nearer to that point than to the east or west. 2. In a direction toward the north; as, to steer a northern course; coming from the north; as, a northern wind. Northern diver. See Loon. -- - NORTHMAN
One of the inhabitants of the north of Europe; esp., one of the ancient Scandinavians; a Norseman. - EQUALIZER
One who, or that which, equalizes anything. - POINT SWITCH
A switch made up of a rail from each track, both rails being tapered far back and connected to throw alongside the through rail of either track. - NORTHMOST
Lying farthest north; northernmost. Northmost part of the coast of Mozambique. De Foe. - POINTLESSLY
Without point. - NORTHEAST
Of or pertaining to the northeast; proceeding toward the northeast, or coming from that point; as, a northeast course; a northeast wind. Northeast passage, a passage or communication by sea between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans along the north - POINTAL
The pistil of a plant. 2. A kind of pencil or style used with the tablets of the Middle Ages. "A pair of tablets . . . and a pointel." Chaucer. - POINTED
1. Sharp; having a sharp point; as, a pointed rock. 2. Characterized by sharpness, directness, or pithiness of expression; terse; epigrammatic; especially, directed to a particular person or thing. His moral pleases, not his pointed wit. Pope. - EQUALIZE
1. To make equal; to cause to correspond, or be like, in amount or degree as compared; as, to equalize accounts, burdens, or taxes. One poor moment can suffice To equalize the lofty and the low. Wordsworth. No system of instruction will completely - NORTHWESTWARD; NORTHWESTWARDLY
Toward the northwest. - NORTH STAR STATE
Minnesota; -- a nickname. - NORTHWESTERN
Of, pertaining to, or being in, the northwest; in a direction toward the northwest; coming from the northwest; northwesterly; as, a northwestern course. - POINT ALPHABET
An alphabet for the blind with a system of raised points corresponding to letters. - NORTHERLINESS
The quality or state of being northerly; direction toward the north. - POINTSMAN
A man who has charge of railroad points or switches. - COVER-POINT
The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point." - UNEQUALABLE
Not capable of being equaled or paralleled. Boyle. - INEQUALITY
An expression consisting of two unequal quantities, with the sign of inequality between them; as, the inequality 2 < 3, or 4 > 1. (more info) 1. The quality of being unequal; difference, or want of equality, in any respect; lack of uniformity; - PHOTIC REGION
The uppermost zone of the sea, which receives the most light. - TROIS POINT
The third point from the outer edge on each player's home table. - POINT-DEVICE; POINT-DEVISE
Uncommonly nice and exact; precise; particular. You are rather point-devise in your accouterments. Shak. Thus he grew up, in logic point-devise, Perfect in grammar, and in rhetoric nice. Longfellow. (more info) + point point, condition + devis - REAPPOINT
To appoint again. - STANDPOINT
A fixed point or station; a basis or fundamental principle; a position from which objects or principles are viewed, and according to which they are compared and judged. - INTERPOINT
To point; to mark with stops or pauses; to punctuate. Her sighs should interpoint her words. Daniel. - PREAPPOINTMENT
Previous appointment.