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NORTH CAROLINA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A state in southeastern United States; one of the original 13 colonies
Synonyms:
N.C.; NC; North Carolina; Old North State; Tar Heel State
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
American state (one of the 50 states of the United States)
Meronyms (parts of "North Carolina"):
Pee Dee; Pee Dee River (a river that flows through central North Carolina and northeastern South Carolina to the Atlantic Ocean)
Cape Fear River (a river in North Carolina that flows southeast to the Atlantic Ocean at Cape Fear)
Blue Ridge; Blue Ridge Mountains (a range of the Appalachians extending from southern Pennsylvania to northern Georgia)
Winston-Salem (a city of north central North Carolina)
Wilmington (a town in southeastern North Carolina on the Cape Fear River)
Greenville (a city in eastern North Carolina; tobacco market)
Greensboro (a city of north central North Carolina)
Goldsboro (a town that is a major tobacco center in eastern North Carolina)
Fayetteville (a town in south central North Carolina)
Durham (a city of north central North Carolina; site of Duke University)
Charlotte; Queen City (the largest city in North Carolina; located in south central North Carolina)
Chapel Hill (a town in central North Carolina; site of the University of North Carolina)
Asheville (a town in western North Carolina in the Blue Ridge Mountains to the west of Charlotte)
capital of North Carolina; Raleigh (capital of the state of North Carolina; located in the east central part of the North Carolina)
Hatteras Island (a barrier island running parallel to the North Carolina shore)
Cape Hatteras (a promontory on Hatteras Island off the Atlantic coast of North Carolina)
Cape Fear (a cape in southeastern North Carolina extending into the Atlantic Ocean)
Great Smoky Mountains National Park (a national park in Tennessee and North Carolina that includes the highest mountain in the eastern United States)
Holonyms ("North Carolina" 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)
South (the region of the United States lying to the south of the Mason-Dixon line)
Carolina; Carolinas (the area of the states of North Carolina and South Carolina)
Holonyms ("North Carolina" 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:
One of the British colonies that formed the United States
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
Colony (one of the 13 British colonies that formed the original states of the United States)
Context examples:
Co-leaders of the study are Patrick F. Sullivan, MD, FRANZCP, Yeargen Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry and Genetics and Director of the Center for Psychiatric Genomics at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine; and Naomi Wray, PhD, Professorial Research Fellow at the University of Queensland in Australia.
(Forty-Four Genomic Variants Linked to Major Depression, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
A study by the University of Chicago and the University of North Carolina, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, shows how these behaviors often inevitably evolve in species that form pair-bonds.
(For species that mate for life, bonding behaviors provide advantages, National Science Foundation)
In the study, scientists led by Scott Parnell, Ph.D., at the Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, administered a variety of CBs alone and in combination with alcohol in varying amounts to mice on day eight of pregnancy, which is similar to the third and fourth weeks of pregnancy in humans.
(Using both marijuana and alcohol during early pregnancy may increase the likelihood of disrupting fetal development, National Institutes of Health)
"The more extra-axial CSF present at six months, the more severe the autism symptoms when the kids were diagnosed at 24 months of age," said first author Dr. Mark Shen, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of North Carolina.
(Scientists say excess cerebrospinal fluid may serve as early sign of autism, Wikinews)
