Westward
adverb
In the direction of the west.
He kept walking westward until he reached the ocean.
Often appears as...
- move westward
- journey westward
adjective
Located towards the west.
The westward windows of the house have the best views.
Often appears as...
- westward direction
- westward view
adverb
In the direction of the west.
He kept walking westward until he reached the ocean.
Often appears as...
- move westward
- journey westward
adjective
Located towards the west.
The westward windows of the house have the best views.
Often appears as...
- westward direction
- westward view
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Directional Use
Used to describe someone's movement towards the direction where the sun sets.
The birds flew westward with the change of season.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Literal
Sometimes signifies going towards a less developed or traditional area.
The pioneers moved westward, seeking new lands.
Pro Tip 3/3Time Indication
Can imply the passage of time, as many historical migrations happened westward.
Civilization has expanded westward over millennia.
Pro Tip 1/3Directional Use
Used to describe someone's movement towards the direction where the sun sets.
The birds flew westward with the change of season.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Literal
Sometimes signifies going towards a less developed or traditional area.
The pioneers moved westward, seeking new lands.
Pro Tip 3/3Time Indication
Can imply the passage of time, as many historical migrations happened westward.
Civilization has expanded westward over millennia.
Pro Tip 1/3Directional Use
Used to describe someone's movement towards the direction where the sun sets.
The birds flew westward with the change of season.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Literal
Sometimes signifies going towards a less developed or traditional area.
The pioneers moved westward, seeking new lands.
Pro Tip 3/3Time Indication
Can imply the passage of time, as many historical migrations happened westward.
Civilization has expanded westward over millennia.
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The 5 Musketeers Eat...
of Rebecca's side and westwards and maybe she's got to kill somewhere there I'm not sure so I'm just trying to do a few loops now towards sort of triage down Zoe's Road just to make sure she hasn't popped out in any of those areas if she has well then we'll be able to pick up tracks and follow them from there but otherwise we'll just keep
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Safari Live - Day 35 PIPE...
to even follow her and we've put rusty through such a lot this evening already that I really want to push it too much further you can see look at the wall of trees that are starting to appear and so it does get really dense once we go over Zoey's Road and start hitting westwards towards Impala plane side so I'll try
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Safari Live - Day 206 PIPE...
lie down right here and enjoy my nap for the afternoon and so that's probably what's happened he was left quite far from here actually this morning there guys said to me that they left him on the northern side of Bulls of dam inside worthless hook so he came back onto the boundary and walked all the way westwards
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El Niño 101 PIPE National...
warm water that normally travels westward is now moving toward the east moisture then rises into the air and the effects of El Nino are felt throughout the Americas in the ocean warm water pushes colder water downward blocking the important upwelling of nutrient-rich waters from the bottom this causes some
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Safari Live - Day 129 PIPE...
out somewhere there I'm gonna use a bit of light just to help because of how far it is the infrared it's going to stay there we go hello boy well done Craig you spotted him there and he's still moving westwards he's not actually coming south yet so the situation where they're going
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Al Gore: Alarming new...
from the Americas, extending westward, and on either side of the Indian subcontinent, where there is a radical depletion of oxygen in the oceans. The biggest single cause of global warming, along with deforestation, which is 20 percent of it, is the burning of fossil fuels.
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The Aztecs: From Empire...
their their city-state so while the aztec are building an empire spain is trying to do the same thing in the early 1500s spain gets very excited about the americas and begins colonizing caribbean islands then they turn their attention westward
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How North America got...
which grows over the next few hundred million years as island chains collide with it and add land mass. We're now at 400 million years ago. Off today's east coast, the massive African plate inches westward, closing the ancient Iapetus Ocean.
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How do ocean currents...
and air moving back down is deflected westward. The mirror image happens in the southern hemisphere, so that the major streams of wind form loop-like patterns around the ocean basins. This is called the Coriolis Effect.
Video examples
How Magellan circumnaviga...
But because of Portugal's control over eastern sea routes, Spain's only viable option was to sail west. So when a Portuguese defector named Ferdinand Magellan claimed that a westward route to the Spice Islands existed,
Video examples
The 5 Musketeers Eat...
of Rebecca's side and westwards and maybe she's got to kill somewhere there I'm not sure so I'm just trying to do a few loops now towards sort of triage down Zoe's Road just to make sure she hasn't popped out in any of those areas if she has well then we'll be able to pick up tracks and follow them from there but otherwise we'll just keep
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 35 PIPE...
to even follow her and we've put rusty through such a lot this evening already that I really want to push it too much further you can see look at the wall of trees that are starting to appear and so it does get really dense once we go over Zoey's Road and start hitting westwards towards Impala plane side so I'll try
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 206 PIPE...
lie down right here and enjoy my nap for the afternoon and so that's probably what's happened he was left quite far from here actually this morning there guys said to me that they left him on the northern side of Bulls of dam inside worthless hook so he came back onto the boundary and walked all the way westwards
Video examples
El Niño 101 PIPE National...
warm water that normally travels westward is now moving toward the east moisture then rises into the air and the effects of El Nino are felt throughout the Americas in the ocean warm water pushes colder water downward blocking the important upwelling of nutrient-rich waters from the bottom this causes some
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 129 PIPE...
out somewhere there I'm gonna use a bit of light just to help because of how far it is the infrared it's going to stay there we go hello boy well done Craig you spotted him there and he's still moving westwards he's not actually coming south yet so the situation where they're going
Video examples
Al Gore: Alarming new...
from the Americas, extending westward, and on either side of the Indian subcontinent, where there is a radical depletion of oxygen in the oceans. The biggest single cause of global warming, along with deforestation, which is 20 percent of it, is the burning of fossil fuels.
Video examples
The Aztecs: From Empire...
their their city-state so while the aztec are building an empire spain is trying to do the same thing in the early 1500s spain gets very excited about the americas and begins colonizing caribbean islands then they turn their attention westward
Video examples
How North America got...
which grows over the next few hundred million years as island chains collide with it and add land mass. We're now at 400 million years ago. Off today's east coast, the massive African plate inches westward, closing the ancient Iapetus Ocean.
Video examples
How do ocean currents...
and air moving back down is deflected westward. The mirror image happens in the southern hemisphere, so that the major streams of wind form loop-like patterns around the ocean basins. This is called the Coriolis Effect.
Video examples
How Magellan circumnaviga...
But because of Portugal's control over eastern sea routes, Spain's only viable option was to sail west. So when a Portuguese defector named Ferdinand Magellan claimed that a westward route to the Spice Islands existed,
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Quote examples
Mike Leach
American Coach
When the Egyptians were building the pyramids or the Romans were building roads, or you had the westward push with the railroads, I don't think that the guys on the ground were spending a lot of time thinking, 'Hey, hundreds or thousands of years from now they will look back at the brick I have just laid down here and say that I changed the world!
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Cynthia Ozick
American Novelist
Early in the 1990s, I flew alone in a dandelion-yellow, single-engine, 180-horsepower Piper Cherokee from Westchester County Airport in New York westward to the Rocky Mountains, landing and refuelling a good many times in middle-sized cities and towns along the way.
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Charles Sturt
Australian Explorer
Yet, upon the whole, the space I traversed is unlikely to become the haunt of civilized man, or will only become so in isolated spots, as a chain of connection to a more fertile country; if such a country exist to the westward.
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Russ Carnahan
American Politician
After the Great Depression and after public urging, a nationwide public competition was held to determine a design for a memorial that would honor President Thomas Jefferson's bold vision for westward expansion for America.
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John Moody
American Businessman
The States which form the northern border of the United States westward from the Great Lakes to the Pacific coast include an area several times larger than France and could contain ten Englands and still have room to spare.
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Tommy Lee Jones
American Actor
There's an undeniable tradition of sexism in this country that ties into the move westward by people of European descent and different ways of looking at Manifest Destiny on the west side of the Mississippi River.
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Sarah Zettel
American Author
All of this got me thinking about the history of the westward expansion, and got me to wondering how the exploration of the Solar System would be changed if there were an indigenous presence out there.
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Albert Bushnell Hart
American Historian
The old charters of Massachusetts, Virginia, and the Carolinas had given title to strips of territory extending from the Atlantic westward to the Pacific.
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Frank Waters
American Writer
The whole westward expansion myth is seen as romantic. But it's a joke, a blot on American history.
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Henry Wells
American Businessman
Westward, ever westward.
Quote examples
Mike Leach
American Coach
When the Egyptians were building the pyramids or the Romans were building roads, or you had the westward push with the railroads, I don't think that the guys on the ground were spending a lot of time thinking, 'Hey, hundreds or thousands of years from now they will look back at the brick I have just laid down here and say that I changed the world!
Quote examples
Cynthia Ozick
American Novelist
Early in the 1990s, I flew alone in a dandelion-yellow, single-engine, 180-horsepower Piper Cherokee from Westchester County Airport in New York westward to the Rocky Mountains, landing and refuelling a good many times in middle-sized cities and towns along the way.
Quote examples
Charles Sturt
Australian Explorer
Yet, upon the whole, the space I traversed is unlikely to become the haunt of civilized man, or will only become so in isolated spots, as a chain of connection to a more fertile country; if such a country exist to the westward.
Quote examples
Russ Carnahan
American Politician
After the Great Depression and after public urging, a nationwide public competition was held to determine a design for a memorial that would honor President Thomas Jefferson's bold vision for westward expansion for America.
Quote examples
John Moody
American Businessman
The States which form the northern border of the United States westward from the Great Lakes to the Pacific coast include an area several times larger than France and could contain ten Englands and still have room to spare.
Quote examples
Tommy Lee Jones
American Actor
There's an undeniable tradition of sexism in this country that ties into the move westward by people of European descent and different ways of looking at Manifest Destiny on the west side of the Mississippi River.
Quote examples
Sarah Zettel
American Author
All of this got me thinking about the history of the westward expansion, and got me to wondering how the exploration of the Solar System would be changed if there were an indigenous presence out there.
Quote examples
Albert Bushnell Hart
American Historian
The old charters of Massachusetts, Virginia, and the Carolinas had given title to strips of territory extending from the Atlantic westward to the Pacific.
Quote examples
Frank Waters
American Writer
The whole westward expansion myth is seen as romantic. But it's a joke, a blot on American history.
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Henry Wells
American Businessman
Westward, ever westward.
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