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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A room in a hospital equipped for the performance of surgical operations
Example:
great care is taken to keep the operating rooms aseptic
Synonyms:
operating room; operating theater; operating theatre; OR; surgery
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("OR" is a kind of...):
hospital room (a room in a hospital for the care of patients)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A state in northwestern United States on the Pacific
Synonyms:
Beaver State; OR; Ore.; Oregon
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
American state (one of the 50 states of the United States)
Meronyms (parts of "OR"):
Pacific Northwest (a region of the northwestern United States usually including Washington and Oregon and sometimes southwestern British Columbia)
Crater Lake National Park (a national park in Oregon having the deepest lake in the United States in the crater of an extinct volcano)
Bend (a town in central Oregon at the eastern foot of the Cascade Range)
Eugene (a city in western Oregon on the Willamette River; site of a university)
Klamath Falls (a town in southern Oregon near the California border)
Medford (a town in southwestern Oregon; a summer resort)
Portland (freshwater port and largest city in Oregon; located in northwestern Oregon on the Willamette River which divides the city into east and west sections; renowned for its beautiful natural setting among the mountains)
capital of Oregon; Salem (capital of the state of Oregon in the northwestern part of the state on the Willamette River)
Klamath; Klamath River (a river flowing southwest from Oregon through northern California to the Pacific Ocean)
Snake; Snake River (a tributary of the Columbia River that rises in Wyoming and flows westward; discovered in 1805 by the Lewis and Clark Expedition)
Willamette; Willamette River (a river in western Oregon that flows north into the Columbia River near Portland)
Holonyms ("OR" 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:
No such thing came into my mind, or near it.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Because snow and ice reflect more light than vegetation or water, the spring is brighter than the summer or autumn, when there is much less snow and ice.
(Earthshine, NASA)
The technique has proved so successful that Hersam and his team now hold two dozen pending or issued patents.
(Materials for the next generation of electronics and photovoltaics, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Issue associated with the using a device after the marked or known shelf life.
(Medical Device Shelf Life Exceeded, Food and Drug Administration)
What will he be doing, in fact, but what very many of our first families have done, or ought to do?
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
Issue associated with the lack of periodic preventive maintenance or performance assurance checks.
(Medical Device Service Failure, Food and Drug Administration)
“I would not have you go back to Friar’s Oak with long faces, or maybe they would not let you come to me again.”
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A character or string that represents a medical history event group.
(Medical History Group Identifier, NCI Thesaurus)
A character or string that represents a medical history event reference.
(Medical History Reference Identifier, NCI Thesaurus)
Yet do not suppose, because I complain a little or because I can conceive a consolation for my toils which I may never know, that I am wavering in my resolutions.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
