the direction corresponding to the northwestward compass point
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the compass point midway between north and west; at 315 degrees
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a location in the northwestern part of a country, region, or city
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to, toward, or in the northwest
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situated in or oriented toward the northwest
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coming from the northwest
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Northwest \North`west"\, n. [AS. nor[eth]west.] 1. The point in the horizon between the north and west, and equally distant from each; the northwest part or region.
2. The northwestern part of the contiguous forty-eight states of the United States, especially the states of Washington and Oregon. [U.S.] [PJC]
Northwest \North`west"\, a. 1. Pertaining to, or in the direction of, the point between the north and west; being in the northwest; toward the northwest, or coming from the northwest; as, the northwest coast.
2. Coming from the northwest; as, a northwest wind.
{Northwest passage}, a passage or communication by sea between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans along the north coast of America, long sought for by navigators.
Northwest \North`west"\, adv. Toward the northwest.
The song, performed in 1964 by the Liverpool band Gerry and the Pacemakers, is about the northwest port city and the River Mersey that flows through it.
More than one-third of the Hondurans were from Puerto Cortes, a Caribbean port 135 miles northwest of Tegucigalpa, said Information Minister Nahum Valladares.
Tension rose in early August after the assassination by unidentified gunmen of Pakistani Shiite leader Arif Hussain al-Hussaini in the northwest frontier city of Peshawar.
Thirty-seven passengers were aboard the Houston-to-Dallas train when the accident occurred near Waller, about 40 miles northwest of Houston, Southern Pacific Railroad spokesman Jim Johnson said.
Medellin, a city of 2 million people in northwest Colombia, is the the headquarters for Colombia's biggest drug traffickers.
Pereira dos Santos said "an incident" occurred after the plane, a Boeing 737-300, made a scheduled stop in Belo Horizonte, 288 miles northwest of Rio.
Last month, the EPA and the Colorado Department of Health announced plans to test wells used by 150 homes north and northwest of the arsenal for DIMP.
In the balloting Labor's Mike Carr polled 75 percent of the vote in Bootle, a town 155 miles northwest of London that encompasses Liverpool's docks.
The suspects were displayed at Amal headquarters in Zefta, six miles northwest of Nabatiyeh in south Lebanon.
Out West, a high wind watch was posted this morning for the northwest Chinook zone of Wyoming and the southeast portion of the state.
Students at the Normal University and other schools in northwest Beijing's university district said the campuses had little of the holiday atmosphere of past National Days.
In Oradea in northwest Romania, unidentified assailants smashed windows and broke down the doors of a synagogue on the night of Feb. 15-16, said Teodor Blumenfeld, general secretary of the Federation of Romanian Jewish Communities.
In northwest Kansas, a twister ripped roofs off farm buildings, downed power and telephone lines, and turned a truck over onto a car near Cedar Bluffs in Decatur County, authorities said.
Police and demonstrators clashed in Pabna, 75 miles northwest of Dhaka, the paper said, but it did not specify how many of the injured were protesters and how many were police.
Church officials say they need $190,000 to preserve the church, which overlooks the thatched roofs and farmlands of Great Brington, 66 miles northwest of London.
The accident occurred at a plant operated by Txane Ltd. on the outskirts of Market Harborough, about 80 miles northwest of London, police said.
The second discovery was in the northwest Cayuga field in Henderson County, Texas.
The main fire, which began Sunday morning along Highway 49 about 30 miles northwest of Nevada City, was apparently caused by an illegal burn of debris, said U.S. Forest Service spokeswoman Ann Dow.
Wind gusts up to 55 mph were recorded in northwest Utah.
The huge Reelfoot Lake in northwest Tennessee was created by that tremor and the ground shook as far away as Washington, D.C.
Sympathetic neighbors visited Quals following the cross-burning early Thursday in the predominantly white Los Angeles suburb about 35 miles northwest of downtown.
Strong northwest winds also blew through the Southeast.
It was moving northwest at 17 mph, up from 12 mph Wednesday.
But it is possible that sentimental factors also came into play as Brennan and his team weighed the pros and cons of 50 potential sites before settling on Hoffman Estates, a suburb about 30 miles northwest of Chicago.
Stoye Milburn, 53, a painter from Kentucky, was towed in his yacht by a coast guard cutter to Puerto Sandino, 44 miles northwest of Managua.
The quake, which occurred northwest of Bristol at 10:26 a.m., measured 3.2 on the Richter scale, said Jill Hart, with the Center for Earthquake Research and Information at Memphis State University.
At least 20,000 Palestinian residents of the Baqaa Refugee Camp, 17 miles northwest of Amman, demonstrated on Monday to protest the killings in Israel.
The wreck of the Fitzgerald lies about 17 miles northwest of Whitefish Point on Michigan's Upper Peninsula.
Details of the Saturday clash in Abud were sketchy and the army said it was investigating to find out who fired the fatal shots in the village 20 miles northwest of Jerusalem.
A half-inch of rain was reported across northwest Ohio, prompting flood warnings for the Tiffin and St. Joseph rivers.