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    TEXAS

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     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    The second largest state; located in southwestern United States on the Gulf of Mexicoplay

    Synonyms:

    Lone-Star State; Tex.; Texas; TX

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting spatial position

    Instance hypernyms:

    American state (one of the 50 states of the United States)

    Meronyms (parts of "Texas"):

    Lufkin (a town in eastern Texas)

    McAllen (a town in southern Texas on the Rio Grande)

    Midland (a town in west central Texas)

    Odessa (a city in western Texas)

    Paris (a town in northeastern Texas)

    Plano (a city in northeastern Texas (suburb of Dallas))

    San Angelo (a town in west central Texas; formerly a notorious frontier town)

    San Antonio (a city of south central Texas; site of the Alamo; site of several military bases and a popular haven for vacationers)

    Sherman (a town in northeastern Texas near the Oklahoma border)

    Texarkana (a town in northeast Texas adjacent to Texarkana, Arkansas)

    Tyler (a town in northeast Texas)

    Victoria (a town in southeast Texas to the southeast of San Antonio)

    Waco (a city in east central Texas)

    Wichita Falls (a city in north central Texas near the Oklahoma border)

    Chihuahuan Desert (a desert in western Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and northern Mexico)

    Brazos; Brazos River (a river that rises in Mexico and flows across Texas into the Gulf of Mexico)

    Canadian; Canadian River (a river rising in northeastern New Mexico and flowing eastward across the Texas panhandle to become a tributary of the Arkansas River in Oklahoma)

    Colorado; Colorado River (a river in Texas; flows southeast into the Gulf of Mexico)

    Galveston Bay (an arm of the Gulf of Mexico in Texas to the south of Houston)

    Guadalupe Mountains (a mountain range in southern New Mexico and western Texas; the southern extension of the Sacramento Mountains)

    Llano Estacado (a large semiarid plateau forming the southern part of the Great Plains)

    Pecos; Pecos River (a tributary of the Rio Grande that flows southeastward from New Mexico through western Texas)

    Red; Red River (a tributary of the Mississippi River that flows eastward from Texas along the southern boundary of Oklahoma and through Louisiana)

    Sabine; Sabine River (a river in eastern Texas that flows south into the Gulf of Mexico)

    Trinity River (a river in eastern Texas that is formed near Dallas and flows generally southeastward to Galveston Bay)

    Chisholm Trail (a former cattle trail from San Antonio in Texas to Abilene in Kansas; not used after the 1880s)

    Big Bend (a triangular area in southwestern Texas on the Mexican border; formed by a bend in the Rio Grande)

    Big Bend National Park (a large national park in Texas featuring mountains and desert and canyons and wildlife)

    Guadalupe Mountains National Park (a national park in Texas that has the highest point in Texas; includes desert wilderness and the ancient Apache hunting grounds)

    Abilene (a city in central Texas)

    Amarillo (a city in the northern panhandle of Texas)

    Arlington (a city in northern Texas between Dallas and Fort Worth)

    Austin; capital of Texas (state capital of Texas on the Colorado River; site of the University of Texas)

    Beaumont (a city of southeastern Texas near Houston)

    Brownsville (a city in southern Texas on the Rio Grande near its mouth into the Gulf of Mexico; has a channel that accommodates oceangoing ships)

    Bryan (a town of east central Texas)

    Corpus Christi (a city in southern Texas on an arm of the Gulf of Mexico)

    Dallas (a large commercial and industrial city in northeastern Texas located in the heart of the northern Texas oil fields)

    Del Rio (a town in southwest Texas on the Rio Grande to the west of San Antonio)

    El Paso (a city in western Texas on the Mexican border; located on the northern bank of the Rio Grande across from the Mexican city of Juarez)

    Fort Worth (a city in northeastern Texas (just to the west of Dallas); a major industrial center)

    Galveston (a town in southeast Texas on Galveston Island)

    Galveston Island (an island at the entrance of Galveston Bay)

    Garland (a city in northeastern Texas (suburb of Dallas))

    Houston (the largest city in Texas; located in southeastern Texas near the Gulf of Mexico; site of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration)

    Laredo (a city in southern Texas on the Rio Grande)

    Lubbock (a city in northwest Texas to the south of Amarillo)

    Holonyms ("Texas" is a part of...):

    Southwest; southwestern United States (the southwestern region of the United States generally including New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, California, and sometimes Utah and Colorado)

    America; the States; U.S.; U.S.A.; United States; United States of America; US; USA (North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776)

    Gulf States (a region of the United States comprising states bordering the Gulf of Mexico; Alabama and Florida and Louisiana and Mississippi and Texas)

    Holonyms ("Texas" is a member of...):

    Confederacy; Confederate States; Confederate States of America; Dixie; Dixieland; South (the southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861)

    Derivation:

    Texan (of or relating to or characteristic of Texas or its residents)

    Credits

     Context examples: 

    But new research, led by The University of Texas at Austin and the University of South Florida (USF), found that the East Antarctic Ice Sheet may not be as stable as it seems.

    (Massive East Antarctic Ice Sheet has history of instability, National Science Foundatio)

    Biomedical engineers at The University of Texas at Austin may have found a way for people to get better shuteye.

    (Bathing 90 minutes before bedtime can improve sleep quality, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

    Scientists from The University of Texas at Dallas and Hanyang University in South Korea developed high-tech yarns that generate electricity when they are stretched or twisted.

    (Energy-Harvesting Yarns Generate Electricity, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

    According to the Texas A&M team, the solution to the problem involves exposing MXenes to a family of compounds best represented by a natural dietary supplement such as vitamin C. With these findings, shelf-stable MXenes become possible and engineering-grade MXene-based materials can become a practical reality.

    (Vitamin C is key to protection of new nanomaterial, National Science Foundation)

    We found the galaxy in a new ALMA survey specifically designed to identify dusty star-forming galaxies in the early universe, said Caitlin Casey of the University of Texas at Austin and lead author of the study.

    (ALMA spots most distant dusty galaxy hidden in plain sight, National Science Foundation)

    Of these, one, the Lone Star, instantly attracted my attention, since, although it was reported as having cleared from London, the name is that which is given to one of the states of the Union. Texas, I think.

    (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

    The Christmas Lights, as researchers called them, circled the globe and descended so close to the Martian equator that, if the lights had occurred on Earth, they would have been over places like Florida and Texas.

    (Auroras on Mars, NASA)

    Now, a new study led by researchers at The University of Texas at Austin has confirmed it by finding hard evidence in the hundreds of feet of rocks that filled the impact crater within the first 24 hours after impact.

    (Rocks at asteroid impact site record first day of dinosaur extinction, National Science Foundation)

    Your cognitive capacity is significantly reduced when your smartphone is within reach, even if it is off, according to findings from a new study from the McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin.

    (Presence of Smartphone Reduces Brain Power, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

    He is such a nice fellow, an American from Texas, and he looks so young and so fresh that it seems almost impossible that he has been to so many places and has had such adventures.

    (Dracula, by Bram Stoker)


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