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AL
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A state in the southeastern United States on the Gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War
Synonyms:
AL; Ala.; Alabama; Camellia State; Heart of Dixie
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("AL" is a kind of...):
South (the region of the United States lying to the south of the Mason-Dixon line)
Instance hypernyms:
American state (one of the 50 states of the United States)
Meronyms (parts of "AL"):
Tallapoosa; Tallapoosa River (river that rises in northwestern Georgia and flows southwest through central Alabama to join the Coosa River near Montgomery and form the Alabama River)
Mobile Bay (a bay of the Gulf of Mexico; fed by the Mobile River)
Mobile; Mobile River (a river in southwestern Alabama; flows into Mobile Bay)
Coosa; Coosa River (river that rises in northwestern Georgia and flows southwest through eastern Alabama to join the Tallapoosa River near Montgomery and form the Alabama River)
Alabama; Alabama River (a river in Alabama formed by the confluence of the Coosa and Tallapoosa Rivers near Montgomery; flows southwestward to become a tributary of the Mobile River)
Tuskegee (a town in eastern Alabama)
Tuscaloosa (a university town in west central Alabama)
Selma (a town in central Alabama on the Alabama river; in 1965 it was the center of a drive to register Black voters)
Mobile (a port in southwestern Alabama on Mobile Bay)
Huntsville (a city in northern Alabama; center for space research)
Gadsden (an industrial town in north central Alabama)
Decatur (a town in northern Alabama on the Tennessee River)
Birmingham; Pittsburgh of the South (the largest city in Alabama; located in northeastern Alabama)
capital of Alabama; Montgomery (the state capital of Alabama on the Mobile River)
Tombigbee; Tombigbee River (a river that rises in northeastern Mississippi and flows southward through western Alabama to join the Alabama River and form the Mobile River)
Domain member region:
battle of Chickamauga; Chickamauga (a Confederate victory in the American Civil War (1863); Confederate forces under Braxton Bragg defeated Union forces)
Holonyms ("AL" 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)
Gulf States (a region of the United States comprising states bordering the Gulf of Mexico; Alabama and Florida and Louisiana and Mississippi and Texas)
Deep South (the southeastern region of the United States: South Carolina and Georgia and Alabama and Mississippi and Louisiana; prior to the American Civil War all these states produced cotton and permitted slavery)
Holonyms ("AL" 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 silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite
Synonyms:
Al; aluminium; aluminum; atomic number 13
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Al" 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.)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Al"):
alum; potash alum; potassium alum (a white crystalline double sulfate of aluminum: the potassium double sulfate of aluminum)
alum; ammonia alum; ammonium alum (a white crystalline double sulfate of aluminum: the ammonium double sulfate of aluminum)
Holonyms ("Al" is a substance of...):
aluminium foil; aluminum foil; tin foil (foil made of aluminum)
bauxite (a clay-like mineral; the chief ore of aluminum; composed of aluminum oxides and aluminum hydroxides; used as an abrasive and catalyst)
Duralumin (an aluminum-based alloy)
Context examples:
This neoplasm tends to grow rapidly and may metastasize outside the central nervous system. (From Donnet et al., J Neurooncol 1999 Mar;42(1):79-83)
(Meningeal Sarcoma, NCI Thesaurus)
Prolonged implantation leads to prostatic carcinoma (Leav et al 1988, 1989).
(NBL, Rat Strain, NCI Thesaurus)
An inbred strain of miniature swine developed by Sachs et al at the NIH in 1976 from a cross between a Hormel pig and a Vita Vet miniature pig.
(NIH Minipig, NCI Thesaurus)
These tumors are slow growing, but apparently malignant, and closely resemble similar tumors found in humans (Goodall et al 1975).
(NZR, Rat Strain, NCI Thesaurus)
Spontaneous thyroid carcinoma 33% (Lindsey et al 1968).
(OM, Rat Strain, NCI Thesaurus)
A questionnaire developed by Naranjo et al that is designed to assess the likelihood that an adverse event is due to the drug administered rather than the result of other factors.
(Naranjo Adverse Drug Reaction Probability Scale, NCI Thesaurus)
Intensive transport of monosaccharides into the cells (Salganik et al 1994).
(OXYS, Rat Strain, NCI Thesaurus)
A measure proposed by Wolchok et al. (Clin Cancer Res 2009;15:7412-7420) to determine the extent of an antitumor response to a particular immunotherapeutic agent.
(Modified Overall Immune Related Response Criterion, NCI Thesaurus)
Survival 58% at 2 years of age with thyroid carcinoma in 25% (Lindsey et al 1968).
(BUF, Rat Strain, NCI Thesaurus)
A standardized rating scale developed by Barley et al in 1988 to measure health status and detect changes in quality of life in asthmatic patients.
(Airway Questionnaire 20, NCI Thesaurus)
