Meaning of "west-southwest" in the English dictionary

PRONUNCIATION OF WEST-SOUTHWEST

west-southwest

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF WEST-SOUTHWEST

West-Southwest can act as a noun, an adjective and an adverb.

A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

The adverb is an invariable part of the sentence that can change, explain or simplify a verb or another adverb.

WHAT DOES WEST-SOUTHWEST MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Points of the compass

The points of the compass are points on a compass, specifically on the compass rose, marking divisions of the four cardinal directions: North, South, East, West. The number of points may be only the 4 cardinal points, or the 8 principal points adding the intercardinal directions northeast, southeast, southwest, and northwest. In meteorological usage further intermediate points are added to give the sixteen points of a wind compass. Finally, at the most complete in European tradition, are found the full thirty-two points of the mariner's compass. In ancient China 24 points of the compass were used. The mariner's practice of boxing the compass is the action of naming all thirty-two points of the compass in order clockwise. The names of intermediate points are formed by the initials of the cardinal directions and their intermediate ordinal directions, and are very handy to refer to a heading in a general or colloquial fashion, without having to resort to computing or recalling degrees. For most applications, the minor points have been superseded by degrees measured clockwise from North.

Definition of west-southwest in the English dictionary

The definition of west-southwest in the dictionary is the point on the compass or the direction midway between southwest and west, 247° 30′ clockwise from north. Other definition of west-southwest is in, from, or towards this direction.

TRANSLATION OF WEST-SOUTHWEST

Find out the translation of west-southwest to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of west-southwest from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «west-southwest» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 西南西
• Translator English - Spanish: al oeste - suroeste
• English: west-southwest
• Translator English - Hindi: पश्चिम दक्षिण पश्चिम
• Translator English - Arabic: الغرب والجنوب الغربي
• Translator English - Russian: запад - юго-западу
• Translator English - Portuguese: oeste-sudoeste
• Translator English - Bengali: পশ্চিম-দক্ষিণ-পশ্চিমে
• Translator English - French: ouest - sud-ouest
• Translator English - Malay: Barat-barat daya
• Translator English - German: west-südwestlich
• Translator English - Japanese: 西南西
• Translator English - Korean: 서쪽 남서
• Translator English - Javanese: Kulon-kulon
• Translator English - Vietnamese: phía tây - tây nam
• Translator English - Tamil: மேற்கு-தென்மேற்கு
• Translator English - Marathi: पश्चिम-नैऋत्य
• Translator English - Turkish: batı-güneybatı
• Translator English - Italian: ovest -sud-ovest
• Translator English - Polish: zachód - południowy zachód
• Translator English - Ukrainian: захід- північний захід
• Translator English - Romanian: vest - sud-vest
• Translator English - Greek: δυτικά - νοτιοδυτικά
• Translator English - Afrikaans: suidwes
• Translator English - Swedish: väst - sydväst
• Translator English - Norwegian: vest

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WEST-SOUTHWEST»

Discover the use of west-southwest in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to west-southwest and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

House Documents

United States House of Representatives. w"? . ',p-leymézu No. 2-Continued. Tracts ol'— Township and range. Parts of section. Township 4 north, range 14 west .................... .. Northwest quarts? of session 18. Township 1 northI range 15 west .

United States House of Representatives, 1857

Official Report of the United States Expedition to Explore ...

10.07,' east. 10.08, east by south. 10.09, southeast. 10.10, southwest, banks of bends perpendicular--of points, usually low and rounded; river seventy yards wide, six and a half feet deep; same bottom; current five knots. 10.12, west- southwest.

William Francis Lynch, Matthew Fontaine Maury, 1852

House Documents

Northeast quflrter of southeast quarter . . . . . . . . ' 5 4 south. . l 2 east . . . .| 6 north. . . 33 west. Southwest uarter . ... 1 south. . . 29 west. Southwest quarter of southeast quarter ........ .. 31 1 north. . . 14 east .. . 1 south. . . 29 west. Lots 2and3 .

USA House of Representatives, 1872

Message of the President of the United States Communicated ...

President. No. 2—C0ntinued. Tracts ofTownship and range. Parts of section. Township 4 north, range 14 west. ...- ....-.. .-.. ..-. .... Northwest quarter of section 18 . Township 1 north, range 15 west --------- -. .----. ..--.. Southwest quarter of section 6.

United States. President, 1857

The North American Journals of Prince Maximilian of Wied: ...

48°30' 28 July " 43°12' west southwest east long. 45°40' 29 July " 44°3' west east southwest long. 43°30' 30 July " 45°17' west southwest long. 38°?- 35' 31 July " 46°41' west southwest long. 33°15' 1 August " 47°36' west southwest west by ...

Prince Alexander Philipp Maximilian of Wied, Stephen S. Witte, Marsha V. Gallagher, 2014

Publications

... and the southwest monsoon is established, the general mean direction and force of the wind being as follows : Persian Gulf, northwest, 2 to 3 ; Arabian Sea, southwest, 5 to 6 ; Arabian Coast, west-southwest to southwest, 3 to 5 ; Gulf of Aden ...

United States. Hydrographic Office, 1920

Survey of Current Business

Far West, Southwest and Southeast lead As illustrated in the upper left-hand part of chart 1 and as shown in table 2, the Far West, Southwest, and Southeast regions increased substantially more than the national average, New England, the ...

‎1949

Circular

50 Mt 70 Granitic saprolite from northwest side of Route 14, about 4.0 miles by road west- southwest of La Grange, and 1. 4 miles by road west- southwest of railroad crossing, Troup County, Ga. In 1951, this locality was obliterated by a grader ...

‎1953

Statistical Atlas of the United States

CENTER OF NEGRO POPULATION: 1790 AND 1880 TO 1910. CENSUS YEAR. North latitude. West longitude. Approximate location by important towns. Movement in miles. 1790. . . . . . . . . . 37 4 8 77 51 21 25 miles west-southwest of ...

‎2000

A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents

In Township 31 North, Range 3 West. Southwest quarter of southwest quarter of section 4 ; south half of southeast quarter and southeast quarter of southwest quarter of section 5 ; north half of northeast quarter, east half of northwest quarter,  ...

United States. President, James Daniel Richardson, 1908