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单词 polewards
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polewardsadv.

Brit. /ˈpəʊlwədz/, U.S. /ˈpoʊlwərdz/
Forms: see pole n.2 and -wards suffix.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: pole n.2, -wards suffix.
Etymology: < pole n.2 + -wards suffix. With use as adverb compare German polwärts (early 18th cent. as †polwerts ; rare), and slightly earlier poleward adv.
1. from the polewards: from the direction of the North or South Pole. Obsolete. rare.
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1644 K. Digby Two Treat. i. xx. 176 The ayre which cometh from the polewardes, is heauyer then the ayre of the torride zone.
2. = poleward adv. Also with of.
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1852 W. Whewell Astron. & Gen. Physics 65 The waters at the equator, and near the equator, would produce steam of greater elasticity..than that which occupies the regions further polewards.
1895 Anatomischer Anzeiger 11 74 The divergent limbs which travel polewards along the spindle are in reality the original halves of a chromosome.
1925 Jrnl. Genetics 15 252 The constituent chromosomes of the bivalents are pulled polewards into loops.
1932 Jrnl. Ecol. 20 227 Polewards of this line the sinking of water gives rise to the movement of the under layers.
2002 New Scientist 26 Oct. 89/4 These waves transport heat polewards.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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