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BOSTON
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
State capital and largest city of Massachusetts; a major center for banking and financial services
Synonyms:
Bean Town; Beantown; Boston; capital of Massachusetts; Hub of the Universe
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
state capital (the capital city of a political subdivision of a country)
Meronyms (parts of "Boston"):
Charlestown Navy Yard (the navy yard in Boston where the frigate 'Constitution' is anchored)
Boston Harbor (the seaport at Boston)
Beacon Hill (a fashionable section of Boston; site of the Massachusetts capital building)
Charlestown (a former town and present-day neighborhood of Boston; settled in 1629)
Domain member region:
battle of Bunker Hill; Bunker Hill (the first important battle of the American War of Independence (1775) which was fought at Breed's Hill; the British defeated the colonial forces)
Holonyms ("Boston" is a part of...):
Bay State; MA; Mass.; Massachusetts; Old Colony (a state in New England; one of the original 13 colonies)
Context examples:
The Boston Globe reports the Duke of Richmond is believed to have been the original owner of the parchment which the researchers dated to the 1780s.
(Parchment Copy of Declaration of Independence Found in Small British Town, VOA)
For a sonnet on Stevenson he managed to wring two dollars out of a Boston editor who was running a magazine with a Matthew Arnold taste and a penny- dreadful purse.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Using state-of-the-art tools and cell-specific dyes in mice, Matthias Nahrendorf, M.D., Ph.D., professor at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, and his colleagues were able to distinguish whether immune cells traveling to brain tissue damaged by stroke or meningitis, came from bone marrow in the skull or the tibia, a large legbone.
(Researchers unearth secret tunnels between the skull and the brain, National Institutes of Health)
Scientists with the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging (HNRCA)—jointly run by the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and Tufts University in Boston, Massachusetts—conducted the study to clarify the role of whole grains in helping regulate weight, blood sugar levels, and calorie (energy) use, among other benefits.
(Whole Grains Deliver on Health Benefits, U.S. Department of Agriculture)
The Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center is a cancer research consortium that integrates and builds on the collective talent and resources of seven Harvard-affiliated institutions: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston Children's Hospital, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Harvard, School of Public Health, and Massachusetts General Hospital.
(Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center, NCI Thesaurus)
Many previous studies have shown the link between insufficient sleep and higher risk of obesity, diabetes, and other metabolic disorders, said study author Tianyi Huang, Sc.D., epidemiologist of the Channing Division of Network Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston.
(Study links irregular sleep patterns to metabolic disorders, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Blood samples from infants who died of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) had high levels of serotonin, a chemical that carries signals along and between nerves, according to a study led by Robin L. Haynes, Ph.D., of Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School.
(Blood of SIDS infants contains high levels of serotonin, National Institutes of Health)
Three billion miles away on the farthest known major planet in our solar system, an ominous, dark storm – once big enough to stretch across the Atlantic Ocean from Boston to Portugal – is shrinking out of existence as seen in pictures of Neptune taken by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope.
(Hubble Sees Neptune's Mysterious Shrinking Storm, NASA)
In their study, the researchers investigated the health outcomes of mothers and children (ranging from 2- to 9-years-old) in the Boston Birth Cohort, a predominately low-income, minority population with a high prevalence of maternal and child obesity.
(Proper maternal folate level may reduce child obesity risk, NIH)
The Safe Passage Study provides important new information about the role of dual exposures to prenatal smoking and drinking as risk factors for SIDS, said co-first author Hannah C. Kinney, M.D., of the Department of Pathology at Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard School of Medicine.
(Combined prenatal smoking and drinking greatly increases SIDS risk, National Institutes of Health)
