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OHIO

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region

Synonyms:

Buckeye State; OH; Ohio

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

American state (one of the 50 states of the United States)

Meronyms (parts of "Ohio"):

Akron (a city in northeastern Ohio; the heart of the United States rubber industry)

Athens (a town in southeast Ohio)

Cleveland (the largest city in Ohio; located in northeastern Ohio on Lake Erie; a major Great Lakes port)

Cincinnati (a city in southern Ohio on the Ohio river)

capital of Ohio; Columbus (the state capital of Ohio; located in the center of the state; site of Ohio State University)

Dayton (a city in southwest Ohio; manufacturing center)

Mansfield (a town in north central Ohio)

Toledo (an industrial city in northwestern Ohio on Lake Erie)

Youngstown (a city in northeast Ohio)

Wabash; Wabash River (a tributary of the Ohio River that rises in western Ohio and flows southwestward across Indiana)

Holonyms ("Ohio" 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 2

Meaning:

A river that is formed in western Pennsylvania and flows westward to become a tributary of the Mississippi River

Synonyms:

Ohio; Ohio River

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Instance hypernyms:

river (a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek))

Holonyms ("Ohio" 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)

Credits

 Context examples: 

We knew we had one big problem with increasing rates of ice discharge by some large outlet glaciers, said Michael Bevis, lead author of the paper and a professor of geodynamics at Ohio State University.

(Study: Greenland's Ice Melting Faster than Previously Thought, VOA)

The goal of the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center is to improve the prevention, diagnosis, and therapy of cancer through discovery, evaluation, and dissemination; to stimulate and support innovative, coordinated interdisciplinary clinical research on cancer diagnosis, treatment, prevention, and control; to develop clinical applications of discovery and make these available to northern Ohio residents as quickly as possible through the integrated efforts of the major health systems in the region; to develop cancer prevention and control activities that build on the expertise of the Center and result in a reduction of cancer morbidity and mortality in the northern Ohio region and throughout the nation.

(Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, NCI Thesaurus)

A research team led by Drs. Jerod S. Denton of Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Peter M. Piermarini of Ohio State University, and Corey Hopkins of the University of Nebraska Medical Center set out to develop a new class of insecticides that target the mosquito kidney.

(Novel insecticide blocks mosquitoes’ ability to urinate, NIH)

In contrast, weak La Niñas led to April outbreaks throughout the South, particularly in Oklahoma and Kansas, while strong La Niñas led to April outbreaks along the Ohio Valley and in the Southeast and Upper Midwest.

(Ocean temperatures may hold key to predicting tornado outbreaks, NOAA)

By probing the effect that vitamin D-3 has on the cells that make up the lining of blood vessels, scientists at Ohio State University in Columbus have identified for the first time the role that the sunshine vitamin plays in preserving cardiovascular health.

(Vitamin D-3 Could 'Reverse' Damage to Heart, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Part of the Shingopana skeleton was excavated in 2002 by scientists affiliated with the Rukwa Rift Basin Project, an international effort led by Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine researchers Patrick O'Connor and Nancy Stevens.

(Paleontologists discover new species of sauropod dinosaur in Tanzania, National Science Foundation)

Astronomers at the Ohio State University, Columbus, revealed the discovery of an exoplanet, named KELT-9b and according to the university's astronomy professor Scott Gaudi, it is the hottest gas giant planet that has ever been discovered.

(Astronomers reveal discovery of the hottest gas giant exoplanet known yet, Wikinews)

Cohort members initially resided in 11 geographically dispersed states representing the Northeast (Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland), Northcentral (Ohio, Michigan), the West (California) and the South (Texas, Florida); although the majority of participants still reside in the original 11 states, members of the cohort currently live in all 50 states.

(Nurses' Health Study, NCI Thesaurus)

Even when the East excited me most, even when I was most keenly aware of its superiority to the bored, sprawling, swollen towns beyond the Ohio, with their interminable inquisitions which spared only the children and the very old—even then it had always for me a quality of distortion.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)