Sever vs North - What's the difference?
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To cut free.
* Bible, Matthew xiii. 49
To suffer disjunction; to be parted or separated.
To make a separation or distinction; to distinguish.
(legal) To disunite; to disconnect; to terminate.
One of the four major compass points, specifically 0°, directed toward the North Pole, and conventionally upwards on a map.
The up or positive direction.
Above or higher
(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).
Of or pertaining to the north; northern.
Toward the north; northward.
* 1987 , Ana María Brull Vázquez, Rosa E. Casas, Cuba , page 23:
(meteorology) Of wind, from the north.
Pertaining to the part of a corridor used by northbound traffic.
* 2001 , Joseph R Miller, Pipe Tobacco and Wool :
(colloquial) More or greater than.
Toward the north; northward.
(obsolete) To turn or move toward the north.
* 1769 , Henry Wilson, William Hume, Surveying improved (page 239)
As proper nouns the difference between sever and north
is that sever is while north is (us) the union during the american civil war.sever
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Verb
(en verb)- After he graduated, he severed all links to his family.
- to sever the head from the body
- The angels shall come forth, and sever the wicked from among the just.
- (Shakespeare)
- The Lord shall sever between the cattle of Israel and the cattle of Egypt. — Ex. ix. 4.
- They claimed the right of severing in their challenge. — Macaulay.
- to sever an estate in joint tenancy
- (Blackstone)
Synonyms
* becut * cut offDerived terms
* severable * severallyExternal links
* * *Anagrams
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English
(wikipedia north)Noun
(-)- Minnesota is in the north of the USA.
- Stock prices are heading north .
- The price you're offering had better be north of the highest price this company has ever traded for.'' - Tom Aldredge in the movie ''
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 northAntonyms
* (l)Coordinate terms
* (compass point) (l), (l), (l)Adjective
(-)- He lived in north Germany .
- She entered through the north gate.
- 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.
- The north wind was cold.
- north highway 1
- Traffic was doing the speed limit on North I-45 one minute and had come to a stand-still the next.
- The wedding ended up costing north of $50,000.
Synonyms
* (of the north) (l)Antonyms
* (l)Adverb
(-)- Switzerland is north of Italy.
- We headed north .
Antonyms
* (l)Verb
(en verb)- When at B you had northed 3.71