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As a noun first

is ridge (of roof).

As a proper noun north is

(us) the union during the american civil war.

first

English

(wikipedia first)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) (m), (m), (m), (m), from (etyl) (m), .

Alternative forms

* firste (archaic) * fyrst (obsolete) * fyrste (obsolete)

Adjective

(-)
  • Preceding all others of a series or kind; the ordinal of one; earliest.
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=2 , passage=Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. He was dressed out in broad gaiters and bright tweeds, like an English tourist, and his face might have belonged to Dagon, idol of the Philistines.}}
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Yesterday’s fuel , passage=The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania. The first barrels of crude fetched $18 (around $450 at today’s prices).}}
  • Most eminent or exalted; most excellent; chief; highest.
  • * 1784 : William Jones, The Description and Use of a New Portable Orrery, &c. , PREFACE
    • THE favourable reception the Orrery has met with from Per?ons of the fir?t di?tinction, and from Gentlemen and Ladies in general, has induced me to add to it ?everal new improvements in order to give it a degree of Perfection; and di?tingui?h it from others; which by Piracy, or Imitation, may be introduced to the Public.
    Alternative forms
    * ; (in names of monarchs and popes) I

    Adverb

    (-)
  • Before anything else; firstly.
  • * , chapter=8
    • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=That concertina was a wonder in its way. The handles that was on it first was wore out long ago, and he'd made new ones of braided rope yarn. And the bellows was patched in more places than a cranberry picker's overalls.}}
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-29, volume=407, issue=8842, page=29, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Unspontaneous combustion , passage=Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia.}}

    Noun

  • (uncountable) The person or thing in the first position.
  • * 1699 , , Heads designed for an essay on conversations
    • Study gives strength to the mind; conversation, grace: the first apt to give stiffness, the other suppleness: one gives substance and form to the statue, the other polishes it.
  • (uncountable) The first gear of an engine.
  • (countable) Something that has never happened before; a new occurrence.
  • (countable, baseball) first base
  • (countable, British, colloquial) A first-class honours degree.
  • (countable, colloquial) A first-edition copy of some publication.
  • A fraction of an integer ending in one.

    • Derived terms

    * feet first * firstborn * first-class * first gear * first imperative (Latin grammar) * first of all * first place * first things first * first up

    See also

    * primary

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) (m), (m), (m), from (etyl) (m), (m), . See also (l).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) Time; time granted; respite.

    • Statistics

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    Anagrams

    * * 100 English basic words English locatives English sequence adverbs English ordinal numbers 1000 English basic words

    north

    English

    (wikipedia north)

    Noun

    (-)
  • One of the four major compass points, specifically 0°, directed toward the North Pole, and conventionally upwards on a map.
    • Minnesota is in the north of the USA.
  • The up or positive direction.
    • Stock prices are heading north .
  • Above or higher
    • The price you're offering had better be north of the highest price this company has ever traded for.'' - Tom Aldredge in the movie ''
  • (physics) The positive or north pole of a magnet, which seeks the magnetic pole near Earth's geographic North Pole (which, for its magnetic properties, is a south pole).

    • Derived terms

    * grid north * magnetic north * north by east * north by west * northbound * northeast * northerly * northern * northerner * northing * north-northeast * north-northwest * north of the border * northward * northwardly * northwards * northwest * true north

    Related terms

    * Norse

    Antonyms

    * (l)

    Coordinate terms

    * (compass point) (l), (l), (l)

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Of or pertaining to the north; northern.
    • He lived in north Germany .
    She entered through the north gate.
  • Toward the north; northward.
  • * 1987 , Ana María Brull Vázquez, Rosa E. Casas, Cuba , page 23:
    • The most dangerous ones are those that develop during October and November and that follow a north path affecting the western part of the island.
  • (meteorology) Of wind, from the north.
    • The north wind was cold.
  • Pertaining to the part of a corridor used by northbound traffic.
    • north highway 1
  • * 2001 , Joseph R Miller, Pipe Tobacco and Wool :
    • Traffic was doing the speed limit on North I-45 one minute and had come to a stand-still the next.
  • (colloquial) More or greater than.
    • The wedding ended up costing north of $50,000.

    Synonyms

    * (of the north) (l)

    Antonyms

    * (l)

    Adverb

    (-)
  • Toward the north; northward.
    • Switzerland is north of Italy.
    We headed north .

    Antonyms

    * (l)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To turn or move toward the north.
  • * 1769 , Henry Wilson, William Hume, Surveying improved (page 239)
    • When at B you had northed 3.71

    Anagrams

    * 1000 English basic words