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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD HORSE LATITUDES

Referring either to the high mortality of horses on board ship in these latitudes or to dead horse (nautical slang: advance pay), which sailors expected to work off by this stage of a voyage.
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PRONUNCIATION OF HORSE LATITUDES

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HORSE LATITUDES

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Horse latitudes is a noun.
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WHAT DOES HORSE LATITUDES MEAN IN ENGLISH?

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Horse latitudes

Horse latitudes or subtropical highs are subtropical latitudes between 30 and 35 degrees both north and south. This region, under a ridge of high pressure called the subtropical high, is an area which receives little precipitation and has variable winds mixed with calm. The horse latitudes are associated with the subtropical anticyclone and the large-scale descent of air from high-altitude currents moving toward the poles. After reaching the earth's surface, this air spreads toward the equator as part of the prevailing trade winds or toward the poles as part of the westerlies. The belt in the Northern Hemisphere is sometimes called the "calms of Cancer" and that in the Southern Hemisphere the "calms of Capricorn". The consistently warm, dry conditions of the horse latitudes also contribute to the existence of temperate deserts, such as the Sahara Desert in Africa, the southwestern United States and northern Mexico, and parts of the Middle East in the Northern Hemisphere; and the Atacama Desert, the Kalahari Desert, and the Australian Desert in the Southern Hemisphere.

Definition of horse latitudes in the English dictionary

The definition of horse latitudes in the dictionary is the latitudes near 30°N or 30°S at sea, characterized by baffling winds, calms, and high barometric pressure.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HORSE LATITUDES

horse around
horse artillery
horse bean
horse brass
horse breeder
horse chestnut
horse gentian
Horse Guards
horse laugh
horse mackerel
horse manure
horse marine
horse mushroom
horse nettle
horse opera
horse pistol
horse race
horse racing
horse rider
horse riding

WORDS THAT END LIKE HORSE LATITUDES

Alcides
Andes
besides
Comrades
Cyclades
Everglades
Guides
Hades
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incudes
Landes
Lourdes
Mendes
palisades
Rhodes
shades
spades
strides
two solitudes
vicissitudes

Synonyms and antonyms of horse latitudes in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «horse latitudes» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF HORSE LATITUDES

Find out the translation of horse latitudes to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of horse latitudes from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «horse latitudes» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

马纬度
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

latitudes de caballo
570 millions of speakers

English

horse latitudes
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

घोड़े अक्षांशों
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

خطوط العرض الحصان
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

конские широты
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

latitudes de cavalo
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ঘোড়া অক্ষাংশ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

horse latitudes
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Latitud kuda
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Rossbreiten
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

馬の緯度
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

말 위도
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Latitude jaran
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

vĩ độ ngựa
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

குதிரை மறைவு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

घोडा अक्षांश
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

At enlemleri
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

latitudini cavallo
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

szerokościach geograficznych koni
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

кінські широти
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

latitudini de cai
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

γεωγραφικά πλάτη αλόγου
15 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Afrikaans

perdebreedtes
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

häst latituder
10 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Norwegian

hest breddegrader
5 millions of speakers

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «HORSE LATITUDES»

The term «horse latitudes» is normally little used and occupies the 126.309 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HORSE LATITUDES»

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Horse Latitudes
Meet Chester Sprockett, former golden boy high school football star, now facing the prospect of middle-age alone, unemployed and stuck in a quagmire of personal and literary impotence as he pursues his lifelong ambition to write the great ...
Quentin R. Bufogle, 2008
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Horse Latitudes
Readers follow in the search for a beautiful but amoral woman by a husband who is determined to redeem her. In a series of dazzling flashes from the Southern California underworld, an extraordinary carnival of characters appears.
Robert Ferrigno, 2003
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Horse Latitudes
Paul Muldoon's new collection opens with a sonnet sequence, 'Horse Latitudes', written as the U.S. embarked on its foray into Iraq.
Paul Muldoon, 2010
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Looking for the Horse Latitudes
Looking for the Horse Latitudes is a poetry collection from poet and translator Miguel Gonzalez-Gerth.
Miguel Gonzalez-Gerth, 2007
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Horse Latitudes
Whenever you find yourself becalmed in the Horse Latitudes, It simply doesn't pay to cop an attitude. Just trim your sails and sluggishly drift While giving yourself over to introspection And the homeopathic healing of psychological rifts And the ...
Robert Dunn, 2003
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Horse Latitudes
Sometimes the Horse Latitudes were carpeted for miles with a floating rictus of palominos and Arab stallions, buoyedup bythe immense floating kelp beds and their own churning internal gases.The HorseLatitudes were nota placeyou visited , ...
Richard Kadrey, 2007
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Meteorology Today
As a consequence, this region is sometimes called the horse latitudes. From the horse latitudes, some of the surface air moves back toward the equator. It does not flow straight back, however, because the Coriolis force deflects the air, causing ...
C. Donald Ahrens, 2006
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Essentials of Meteorology: An Invitation to the Atmosphere
As a consequence, this region is sometimes called the horse latitudes. From the horse latitudes, some of the surface air moves back toward the equator. It does not flow straight back, however, because the Coriolis force deflects the air, causing ...
C. Donald Ahrens, 2008
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The Encyclopedia of World Climatology
John E. Oliver. HORSE LATITUDES Horse latitudes is a term used to describe north and south Subtropical High atmospheric pressure belts. The term is now used only rarely in modern studies. Marked by dry sinking air, these Subtropical High ...
John E. Oliver, 2005
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Horse Latitudes
Escaping the wreckage of his old life, Ethan flees to Central America where he meets a woman whose sister he promises to rescue from a country on the brink of revolution.
Morris Collins, 2013

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HORSE LATITUDES»

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Altork: Down in the horse latitudes
They are named the horse latitudes because, much like in the doldrums, the sailors would find themselves unable to propel their boat, and they ... «Randolph Leader, Jul 15»
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Life in the horse latitudes
I recently realized just how fickle I have become. I could blame this on encroaching old age and, all things considered, I might just get away with ... «Carroll County Times, Jul 15»
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Always Nostalgic: John Rayburn
He wrote such best-selling books as “Low Man on a Totem Pole,” “Life in a Putty Knife Factory,” “Lost in the Horse Latitudes” and “Rhubarb,” the ... «Valley morning Star, Jul 15»
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What We Do, Explained by Others
What will trigger rapid moves in either direction and out of the current financial horse latitudes is anybody's guess. There's a big vote in Greece ... «Town Hall, Jul 15»
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H is for Horse
At the pub, my friend offered 'Horse Latitudes' by The Doors. Which, obviously, prompted a Jim Morrison impersonation, ably aided by the most ... «Hindu Business Line, Jul 15»
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by: AUSTRALIAN POETRY: AIDAN COLEMAN
... source of consciousness is dissipated and ecological themes are foregrounded with millennial foreboding, as in Horse Latitudes: ''The gyre. «The Australian, Jul 15»
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Doors guitarist Robby Krieger, coming to Bethlehem, still rocks the …
Some tracks are being recorded at Krieger's new studio Horse Latitudes. The studio's name is inspired by the little-known Doors song of the ... «Allentown Morning Call, Jun 15»
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Dashboard Confessional's Chris Carrabba Reviews the Emo Revival
When I heard the stringy guitar I was expecting something like early Promise Ring circa Horse Latitudes, Texas Is The Reason, or Recess ... «Noisey, Jun 15»
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Catching up on Iowa's TV times
Football and when football is on TV always are kind of big deals, but become really big deals, at least to me, during the horse latitudes. «The Gazette: Eastern Iowa Breaking News and Headlines, Jun 15»
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Playing it safe
Meanwhile, to stretch one last metaphor to the breaking point, the studio execs sit there, reeling in their self-created horse latitudes, gathering ... «Arkansas Online, Jun 15»

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