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CARDINAL POINTS

Definition: CARDINAL POINTS

CARDINAL POINTS

1. (a) (Geol.) The four principal points of the compass, or intersections of the horizon with the meridian and the prime vertical circle, north, south east, and west. (b) (Astrol.) The rising and setting of the sun, the zenith and nadir.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Synonyms within Context: CARDINAL POINTS

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Direction

Point of the compass, cardinal points; North East, South, West; N by E, ENE, NE by N, NE; rhumb, azimuth, line of collimation.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: CARDINAL POINTS

English words defined with "CARDINAL POINTS": compass flower, compass plantOblique sailingPoints of the compassRight sailingWave offering. (references)
Specialty definitions using "CARDINAL POINTS": cardinal heading, Cardinal Points of the Compass, compass points. (references)

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Commercial Usage: CARDINAL POINTS

DomainTitle

Books

  • Cardinal Points (Cowinner of The, 1987 Iowa Poetry Prize) (reference)

  • Cardinal Points and Other Poems (reference)

  • Cardinal points for a modern British foreign policy (reference)

  • Cardinal points sampler (reference)

  • The Cardinal points of Borges (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: CARDINAL POINTS

Language Translations for "CARDINAL POINTS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Finnish

  

pääilmansuunnat. (various references)

   

French

  

points cardinaux (cardinal directions, cardinal elements), les points cardinaux. (various references)

   

German

  

himmelsrichtungen (cardinal directions). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

σημεία του ορίζοντα. (various references)

   

Manx

  

kiare airdyn, bun-ardjyn. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ardinalcay ointspay

   

Portuguese

  

pontos cardeais. (various references)

   

Romanian

  

punctele cardinale (wind). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

puntos cardinales (cardinal directions, cardinal elements), índice cardinal. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

fyra väderstrecken. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: CARDINAL POINTS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-d-i-i-l-n-n-o-p-r-s-t"

-2 letters: nonparasitic.

-3 letters: noncapitals, piscatorial, postcranial.

-4 letters: annalistic, antipodals, antisocial, ascription, aspiration, carnations, clintonias, clostridia, cnidarians, indicators, nicotianas, noncapital, nonplastic, nonspatial, parasitoid, parodistic, patricians, patricidal, pictorials, placations, planations, plications, poincianas, prolactins, radiations, sinoatrial, sporicidal, trainloads.

-5 letters: actinians, actinoids, adaptions, adnations, antiarins, antinodal, antipodal, antisolar, cantorial, cantraips, caparison, cardinals, carnation, cartloads, cilantros, cisplatin, clintonia, cnidarian, coastland.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Bibliography


  

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