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ILLINOIS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The Algonquian language of the Illinois and Miami
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("Illinois" is a kind of...):
Algonquian; Algonquian language; Algonquin (family of North American Indian languages spoken from Labrador to South Carolina and west to the Great Plains)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A midwestern state in north-central United States
Synonyms:
IL; Ill.; Illinois; Land of Lincoln; Prairie State
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
American state (one of the 50 states of the United States)
Meronyms (parts of "Illinois"):
Little Wabash; Little Wabash River (a river in eastern Illinois that flows southeastward to the Wabash River)
Illinois River (a river in Illinois that flows southwest to the Mississippi River)
Urbana (a university town in east central Illinois adjoining Champaign)
capital of Illinois; Springfield (capital of the state of Illinois)
Rock Island (a town in northwest Illinois on the Mississippi River; site of a Union prison during the American Civil War)
Rockford (a city in northern Illinois)
Peoria (a city in central Illinois on the Illinois River)
Moline (a town in northwest Illinois on the Mississippi River)
East Saint Louis (a town in southwest Illinois on the Mississippi across from Saint Louis)
Decatur (a city in central Illinois; Abraham Lincoln practiced law here)
Chicago; Windy City (largest city in Illinois; a bustling Great Lakes port that extends 26 miles along the southwestern shoreline of Lake Michigan)
Champaign (a university town in east central Illinois adjoining Urbana)
Carbondale (a town in southern Illinois)
Cairo (a town at the southern tip of Illinois at the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers)
Holonyms ("Illinois" is a part of...):
middle west; Midwest; midwestern United States (the north central region of the United States (sometimes called the heartland or the breadbasket of America))
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)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A member of the Algonquian people formerly of Illinois and regions to the west
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Illinois" is a kind of...):
Algonquian; Algonquin (a member of any of the North American Indian groups speaking an Algonquian language and originally living in the subarctic regions of eastern Canada; many Algonquian tribes migrated south into the woodlands from the Mississippi River to the Atlantic coast)
Context examples:
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists in Peoria, Illinois, helped mass produce the antibiotic during World War II to treat Allied soldiers and later civilians.
(Soil Bacterium Tapped for Penicillin Guard Duty, U.S. Department of Agriculture)
New research by engineers at the University of Illinois combines atomic-scale experiments with computer modeling to determine how much energy it takes to bend multilayer graphene — a question that has eluded scientists since graphene was first isolated.
(Graphene: The more you bend it, the softer it gets, National Science Foundation)
Teams led by Taher Saif and Rashid Bashir at the University of Illinois worked together to develop the first self-propelled biohybrid swimming and walking biobots powered by beating cardiac muscle cells derived from rats.
(Researchers build microscopic biohybrid robots propelled by muscles, nerves, National Science Foundation)
"These ants are fascinating as their mandibles are very unusual," said University of Illinois animal biology and entomology professor Andrew Suarez, who led the research with Fredrick J. Larabee, a postdoctoral researcher at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.
(Dracula Ant Found to Be Fastest Creature on Earth, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Researchers at the Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, and University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, created a remote controlled, next-generation tissue implant that allows neuroscientists to inject drugs and shine lights on neurons deep inside the brains of mice.
(Futuristic brain probe allows for wireless control of neurons, NIH)
