west-northwest
西北
Definitions
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- : a point on the compass midway between west and northwest.
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- : coming from this point: a west-northwest wind.
- : directed toward this point: a west-northwest course.
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- : toward this point: sailing west-northwest.Abbreviation: WNW
Examples
There is, however, a separate wing of AQAP designed to inspire their followers to conduct attacks against the West.
The need for an Ebola vaccine in West Africa has never been greater.
With Ebola still raging in West Africa, the race to find a vaccine is heating up.
I meet Otis J. the night he arrives at “The Castle,” a West Harlem halfway house for newly-released convicts.
Still, at least Macklemore sounds like a white guy from the Pacific Northwest.
The volcanic eruptions of the mountains on the west broke down its barriers, and let its waters flow.
When the women came, he was preparing to go to the west side for his daily visit with Mrs. Pruitt.
The cantonment was split into two sections by an irregular ravine, or nullah, running east and west.
But you are mistaken in thinking the force west consists of the entire Merrill Horse.
Now, the whole Northwest groaned beneath a cast-iron prohibition law at that time, and for some years thereafter.