| Learning / English Dictionary |
MARYLAND
| Pronunciation (US): |  | (GB): | |
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies
Synonyms:
Free State; Maryland; MD; Md.; Old Line State
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
American state (one of the 50 states of the United States)
Meronyms (parts of "Maryland"):
Aberdeen (a town in northeastern Maryland)
Annapolis; capital of Maryland (state capital of Maryland; site of the United States Naval Academy)
Baltimore (the largest city in Maryland; a major seaport and industrial center)
Fort George G. Meade; Fort George Gordon Meade; Fort Meade (a United States Army base in Maryland; headquarters of the National Security Agency)
Frederick (a town in northern Maryland to the west of Baltimore)
Hagerstown (a town in northern Maryland)
Chesapeake Bay (a large inlet of the North Atlantic between Virginia and Maryland; fed by Susquehanna River)
Potomac; Potomac River (a river in the east central United States; rises in West Virginia in the Appalachian Mountains and flows eastward, forming the boundary between Maryland and Virginia, to the Chesapeake Bay)
Susquehanna; Susquehanna River (a river in the northeastern United States that rises in New York and flows southward through Pennsylvania and Maryland into Chesapeake Bay)
Holonyms ("Maryland" 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)
Mid-Atlantic states (a region of the eastern United States comprising New York and New Jersey and Pennsylvania and Delaware and Maryland)
South (the region of the United States lying to the south of the Mason-Dixon line)
Sense 2
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:
Researchers from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, examined high-resolution compositional data from more than 100 gully sites throughout Mars.
(Mars Gullies Likely Not Formed by Liquid Water, NASA)
MAVEN has made the first direct detection of the permanent presence of metal ions in the ionosphere of a planet other than Earth, said Joseph Grebowsky of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
(Mars Has Metal in Its Atmosphere, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Curiosity has not determined the source of the organic molecules, said Jen Eigenbrode of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, who is lead author of one of the two new Science papers.
(NASA Finds Ancient Organic Material, Mysterious Methane on Mars, NASA)
The team, led by the University of Maryland's Eleonora Troja made the discovery when they re-examined data from the gamma-ray burst and compared it with the first direct observation of a merger between two neutron stars made in August 2017 by LIGO, NSF's Laser-Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory.
(Astronomers find a golden glow from a distant stellar collision, National Science Foundation)
According to Amy Simon of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, recent NASA Hubble Space Telescope observations confirm the Great Red Spot now is approximately 10,250 miles across, less than half the size of some historical measurements.
(Jupiter's great red spot is shrinking, NASA)
Based in part on these findings in children, as well as other preliminary work, a team at NIH’s Clinical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, set out to test a modified transplant procedure in adults with sickle cell disease.
(Stem cell transplant reverses sickle cell disease in adults, NIH)
With the support from a NASA Exobiology grant and NASA’s Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute, or SSERVI, researchers at the Southwest Research Institute, or SwRI, and University of Maryland have created high-resolution impact simulations that show significant portions of a large planetesimal’s core could penetrate all the way down to merge with Earth’s core—or ricochet back into space and escape the planet entirely.
(NASA-funded Simulations Show How Massive Collisions Delivered Metal to Early Earth, NASA)
Now, new analysis of the object — formally named 1I/2017 U1, with a common name of 'Oumuamua — by an international team of astronomers and co-led by University of Maryland associate research scientist Matthew Knight has been published in the journal Nature Astronomy.
('Oumuamua interstellar object was not an alien spacecraft, National Science Foundation)
Now, scientists from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland have found evidence that Mercury’s inner core is indeed solid and that it is very nearly the same size as Earth’s inner core.
(A Closer Look at Mercury’s Spin and Gravity Reveals the Planet’s Inner Solid Core, NASA)
Ahuna Mons is a volcanic dome unlike any seen elsewhere in the solar system, according to a new analysis led by Ottaviano Ruesch of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, and the Universities Space Research Association.
(Ceres' Geological Activity, Ice Revealed in New Research, NASA)
