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UTAH
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A state in the western United States; settled in 1847 by Mormons led by Brigham Young
Synonyms:
Beehive State; Mormon State; UT; Ut.; Utah
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
American state (one of the 50 states of the United States)
Meronyms (parts of "Utah"):
Lake Powell (the second largest reservoir in the United States; located in southern Utah and north central Arizona and formed by the Glen Canyon Dam on the Colorado River)
Mormon Tabernacle; Tabernacle (the Mormon temple)
Arches National Park (a national park in Utah including mountains and the Colorado River gorge and huge rock formations caused by erosion)
Bryce Canyon National Park (a national park in Utah having multicolored rock erosions)
Canyonlands National Park (a national park in Utah having rock formations and ancient cliff dwellings; canyons of the Green River and the Colorado River)
Capitol Reef National Park (a national park in Utah having colorful rock formations and desert plants and wildlife)
Zion National Park (a national park in Utah having huge canyons and gorges carved by mountain rivers)
Ogden (a town in northern Utah settled by Mormons)
Provo (a city in north central Utah settled by Mormons)
capital of Utah; Salt Lake City (the capital and largest city of Utah; located near the Great Salt Lake in north central Utah; world capital of the Mormon Church)
Colorado; Colorado River (an important river in the southwestern United States; rises in the Rocky Mountains of northern Colorado and flows southwest through Utah into Arizona (where it flows through the Grand Canyon) and then southward through the southern tip of Nevada, then forming the border between California and Arizona and finally into Mexico where it empties into the Gulf of California; the main source of water in the southwestern United States)
Colorado Plateau (a large plateau to the south and west of the Rocky Mountains; abuts mountains on the north and east and ends in an escarpment overlooking lowlands to the south and west; the Grand Canyon is carved out of the southwestern corner)
Great Salt Lake (a shallow body of salt water in northwestern Utah)
Green; Green River (a river that rises in western Wyoming and flows southward through Utah to become a tributary of the Colorado River)
Holonyms ("Utah" is a part of...):
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)
Context examples:
The team, developed a new technique that uses both local and distant earthquake data from the University of Utah Seismograph Stations and the EarthScope array of seismometers.
(Yellowstone magma discovery, NSF)
For example, Moore's team found that a helicopter flying close to an arch in Utah's Bryce Canyon caused the arch to vibrate with an amplitude one hundred times greater than normal.
(Song of the red rock arches, National Science Foundation)
Two independent teams of scientists from the University of Utah and the University of Massachusetts Medical School have discovered that a gene crucial for learning, called Arc, can send its genetic material from one neuron to another by employing a strategy commonly used by viruses.
(Memory gene goes viral, National Institutes of Health)
Seismic sources as close as Lake Powell (on the border of Utah and Arizona) and as far away as Oklahoma caused vibrations in the bridge.
(Song of the red rock arches, National Science Foundation)
