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SOUTHWEST
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A location in the southwestern part of a country, region, or city
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("southwest" is a kind of...):
location (a point or extent in space)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The southwestern region of the United States generally including New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, California, and sometimes Utah and Colorado
Synonyms:
Southwest; southwestern United States
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
geographic area; geographic region; geographical area; geographical region (a demarcated area of the Earth)
Meronyms (parts of "Southwest"):
Arizona; AZ; Grand Canyon State (a state in southwestern United States; site of the Grand Canyon)
CA; Calif.; California; Golden State (a state in the western United States on the Pacific; the 3rd largest state; known for earthquakes)
Battle Born State; Nev.; Nevada; NV; Sagebrush State; Silver State (a state in the western United States)
Land of Enchantment; N.M.; New Mexico; NM (a state in southwestern United States on the Mexican border)
Lone-Star State; Tex.; Texas; TX (the second largest state; located in southwestern United States on the Gulf of Mexico)
Domain member region:
arroyo (a stream or brook)
Holonyms ("Southwest" is a part of...):
West; western United States (the region of the United States lying to the west of the Mississippi River)
Sense 3
Meaning:
The compass point midway between south and west; at 225 degrees
Synonyms:
sou'-west; southwest; southwestward; SW
Classified under:
Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas
Hypernyms ("southwest" is a kind of...):
compass point; point (any of 32 horizontal directions indicated on the card of a compass)
Sense 4
Meaning:
The direction corresponding to the southwestward compass point
Classified under:
Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas
Hypernyms ("southwest" is a kind of...):
direction (the spatial relation between something and the course along which it points or moves)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Situated in or oriented toward the southwest
Synonyms:
southwest; southwesterly; southwestern
Classified under:
Similar:
south (situated in or facing or moving toward or coming from the south)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Coming from the southwest
Example:
the winds are southwesterly
Synonyms:
southwest; southwesterly
Classified under:
Similar:
south (situated in or facing or moving toward or coming from the south)
III. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
To, toward, or in the southwest
Synonyms:
sou'west; south-west; southwest
Classified under:
Context examples:
The four compass directions: northeast, southeast, southwest, and northwest, located halfway between the cardinal directions.
(Ordinal Direction, NCI Thesaurus)
A group of islands in the South Pacific Ocean, southwest of Wallis and Fortuna and east of Vanuatu.
(Fiji, NCI Thesaurus)
Denotes a person from any of the countries of southwest Asia and northeastern Africa; this region includes those countries east of Egypt and south of Turkey and extending to Iran in the east.
(Middle Eastern or North African, NCI Thesaurus)
The Icelandic Sagas tell of Erik the Red: exiled for murder in the late 10th century he fled to southwest Greenland, establishing its first Norse settlement.
(Lost Norse of Greenland fuelled the medieval ivory trade, ancient walrus DNA suggests, University of Cambridge)
"Secular variation has been on the wish list of planetary scientists for decades," said Scott Bolton, Juno principal investigator from the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio.
(NASA's Juno Finds Changes in Jupiter's Magnetic Field, NASA)
Earth has dust storms, too, in desert regions such as North Africa, the Middle East and the southwest United States.
(Martian Dust Storm Grows Global: Curiosity Captures Photos of Thickening Haze, NASA)
"The combination of creativity and analytical thinking has once again paid off big time for NASA," said Scott Bolton, Juno principal investigator from the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio.
(NASA's Juno Navigators Enable Jupiter Cyclone Discovery, NASA)
The scientists at the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado, modeled collisions of other bodies with Ceres since the dwarf planet formed, and predicted the number of large craters that should have been present on its surface.
(The Case of the Missing Ceres Craters, NASA)
In a study, scientists from the University of California, Davis; USDA Forest Service Pacific Southwest Research Station; and University of Washington have found a way to resolve the conflict that has sprung up between protecting forests from increasingly frequent wildfires and droughts and preserving sufficient habitat for the endangered spotted owl, Strix occidentalis.
(Researchers find preserving spotted owl habitat may not require a tradeoff with wildfire risk after all, Wikinews)
There were several additions of a later date, but above all, three crosses of red ink—two on the north part of the island, one in the southwest—and beside this last, in the same red ink, and in a small, neat hand, very different from the captain's tottery characters, these words: Bulk of treasure here.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
