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MO
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A midwestern state in central United States; a border state during the American Civil War, Missouri was admitted to the Confederacy without actually seceding from the Union
Synonyms:
Missouri; MO; Mo.; Show Me State
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
American state (one of the 50 states of the United States)
Meronyms (parts of "MO"):
White; White River (a tributary of the Mississippi River that flows southeastward through northern Arkansas and southern Missouri)
Saint Francis; Saint Francis River; St. Francis; St. Francis River (a tributary of the Mississippi River that rises in Missouri and flows southeastward through Arkansas)
Osage; Osage River (a river in Missouri that is a tributary of the Missouri River)
Cape Girardeau (a town in southeast Missouri)
Columbia (a university town in central Missouri)
Hannibal (a town in northeast Missouri on the Mississippi River; boyhood home of Mark Twain)
Independence (a city in western Missouri; the beginning of the Santa Fe Trail)
capital of Missouri; Jefferson City (capital of the state of Missouri; located in central Missouri on the Missouri river)
Kansas City (a city in western Missouri situated at the confluence of the Kansas River and the Missouri River; adjacent to Kansas City, Kansas)
Poplar Bluff (a town in southeast Missouri)
Saint Joseph; St. Joseph (a town in northwest Missouri on the Missouri River; in the 19th century it became the eastern terminus of the pony express)
Gateway to the West; Saint Louis; St. Louis (the largest city in Missouri; a busy river port on the Mississippi River near its confluence with the Missouri River; was an important staging area for wagon trains westward in the 19th century)
Sedalia (a town in east central Missouri)
Springfield (a city of southwestern Missouri)
Holonyms ("MO" is a part of...):
middle west; Midwest; midwestern United States (the north central region of the United States (sometimes called the heartland or the breadbasket of America))
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)
Holonyms ("MO" 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)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A polyvalent metallic element that resembles chromium and tungsten in its properties; used to strengthen and harden steel
Synonyms:
atomic number 42; Mo; molybdenum
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Mo" is a kind of...):
metal; metallic element (any of several chemical elements that are usually shiny solids that conduct heat or electricity and can be formed into sheets etc.)
Holonyms ("Mo" is a substance of...):
molybdenite (a mineral resembling graphite that is valued as the chief source of molybdenum and its compounds)
Sense 3
Meaning:
An indefinitely short time
Example:
in just a bit
Synonyms:
bit; minute; mo; moment; second
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("mo" is a kind of...):
time (an indefinite period (usually marked by specific attributes or activities))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mo"):
blink of an eye; flash; heartbeat; instant; jiffy; New York minute; split second; trice; twinkling; wink (a very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat))
Domain region:
Britain (a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; 'Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom)
