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GEORGIA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A republic in Asia Minor on the Black Sea separated from Russia by the Caucasus mountains; formerly an Asian soviet but became independent in 1991
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
Asian country; Asian nation (any one of the nations occupying the Asian continent)
Meronyms (parts of "Georgia"):
capital of Georgia; Tbilisi; Tiflis (the capital and largest city of Georgia on the Kura river)
Abkhaz; Abkhazia (an autonomous province of Georgia on the Black Sea; a strong independence movement has resulted in much instability)
Adzhar; Adzharia (an autonomous province of Georgia on the Black Sea)
Meronyms (members of "Georgia"):
Georgian (a native or inhabitant of Georgia in Asia)
Holonyms ("Georgia" is a part of...):
Transcaucasia (a geographical region to the south of the Caucasus Mountains and to the north of Turkey that comprises Georgia and Armenia and Azerbaijan)
Holonyms ("Georgia" is a member of...):
CIS; Commonwealth of Independent States (an alliance made up of states that had been Soviet Socialist Republics in the Soviet Union prior to its dissolution in Dec 1991)
Derivation:
Georgian (of or relating to or characteristic of the Asian republic of Georgia or its people or language)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A state in southeastern United States; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War
Synonyms:
Empire State of the South; GA; Ga.; Georgia; Peach State
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
American state (one of the 50 states of the United States)
Meronyms (parts of "Georgia"):
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)
Okefenokee Swamp (a large swampy area of northeast Florida and southeast Georgia)
Flint; Flint River (a river in western Georgia that flows generally south to join the Chattahoochee River at the Florida border where they form the Apalachicola River)
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)
Chattahoochee; Chattahoochee River (a river rising in northern Georgia and flowing southwest and south to join the Flint River at the Florida border where they form the Apalachicola River)
Vidalia (a town in central Georgia; the origin of Vidalia onions)
Valdosta (a town in southern Georgia near the Florida border)
Savannah (a port in eastern Georgia near the mouth of the Savannah river)
Oxford (a university town in northern Mississippi; home of William Faulkner)
Macon (a city in central Georgia to the southeast of Atlanta)
Augusta (a city in eastern Georgia north-northwest of Savannah; noted for golf tournaments)
Athens (a university town in northeast Georgia)
Atlanta; capital of Georgia (state capital and largest city of Georgia; chief commercial center of the southeastern United States; was plundered and burned by Sherman's army during the American Civil War)
Albany (a town in southwest Georgia; processing center for peanuts and pecans)
Domain member region:
Kennesaw Mountain (battle of the American Civil War (1864); Union forces under William Tecumseh Sherman were repulsed by Confederate troops under Joseph Eggleston Johnston)
Holonyms ("Georgia" 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)
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 ("Georgia" 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)
Derivation:
Georgian (of or relating to or characteristic of the American state of Georgia or its inhabitants)
Sense 3
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:
The beauty of our sensor is that it can be seamlessly integrated onto existing medical stents or flow diverters that clinicians are already using to treat aneurysms, said Woon-Hong Yeo, a biomedical engineer at Georgia Tech.
(Stretchable wireless sensor could monitor healing of cerebral aneurysms, National Science Foundation)
We saw that microbial communities respond quite rapidly — within four or five years — to even modest levels of warming, said Kostas Konstantinidis, the paper’s corresponding author and a scientist at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
(Rising tundra temperatures lead to changes in microbial communities, National Science Foundation)
Under laboratory conditions mimicking those on pre-life Earth, a small selection of amino acids linked up spontaneously into neat segments in a way that surprised researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology and their colleagues.
(Pre-life building blocks spontaneously align in evolutionary experiment, National Science Foundation)
Researchers took samples of dental enamel from the ancient fossil which was discovered in Dmanisi, Georgia, and used mass spectrometry to sequence the ancient protein and retrieved genetic information previously unobtainable using DNA testing.
(‘Game-changing’ research could solve evolution mysteries, University of Cambridge)
A team of researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology and The Ohio State University has developed a material called magnetic shape memory polymer that uses magnetic fields to transform into a variety of shapes.
(Tiny magnetic particles enable new material to bend, twist and grab, National Science Foundation)
The night-to-night variability in the older study participants had a major impact on their performance in tests aimed at evaluating episodic memory, said Audrey Duarte, principal investigator in the Memory and Aging Lab at the Georgia Tech School of Psychology.
(Study ties poor sleep to reduced memory performance in older adults, National Science Foundation)
In a new study of African buffalo, University of Georgia (UGA) ecologist Vanessa Ezenwa has found that de-worming drastically improves an animal's chances of surviving bovine tuberculosis—but with the consequence of increasing the spread of TB in the population.
(Treatment for parasitic worms helps animals survive infectious diseases--and spread them, NSF)
Researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology (GT) and University of South Carolina Beaufort, both in the United States, reported warming seas appear to decrease the efficacy of the chemical compounds that corals release into the water to defend themselves from bacteria and encroaching seaweed, but these losses may be mitigated if there are large numbers of hungry fish around.
(Voracious fish defend coral reefs against warming, Wikinews)
The Georgia Tech team measured the brain patterns of more than 100 people while they lay in an MRI machine.
(Daydreaming Is Good: It Means You're Smart, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
The possibility that intermediate mass black holes exist but are currently hidden from our view is both tantalizing and frustrating, according to Deidre Shoemaker of Georgia Tech, a co-author of the paper.
(Observing 'black hole symphony' using gravitational wave astronomy, National Science Foundation)
