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texas

1

[ tek-suhs ]

noun

U.S. Nautical.
  1. a deckhouse on a texas deck for the accommodation of officers.


Texas

2

[ tek-suhs ]

noun

  1. a state in the southern United States. 267,339 sq. mi. (692,410 sq. km). : Austin. : TX (for use with zip code), Tex.

Texas

/ ˈɛə /

noun

  1. a state of the southwestern US, on the Gulf of Mexico: the second largest state; part of Mexico from 1821 to 1836, when it was declared an independent republic; joined the US in 1845; consists chiefly of a plain, with a wide flat coastal belt rising up to the semiarid Sacramento and Davis Mountains of the southwest; a major producer of cotton, rice, and livestock; the chief US producer of oil and gas; a leading world supplier of sulphur. Capital: Austin. Pop: 22 118 509 (2003 est). Area: 678 927 sq km (262 134 sq miles) AbbreviationTexwith zip codeTX
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Texas

  1. State in the southwestern United States bordered by Oklahoma to the north, Arkansas and Louisiana to the east, the Gulf of Mexico and Mexico to the south, and New Mexico to the west. Its capital is Austin , and its largest city is Houston .
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Notes

One of the border states with Mexico; Mexican aliens often cross the border into Texas.
One of the Confederate states during the Civil War .
Long the largest state, it became second largest with the admission of Alaska as the forty-ninth state in 1959.
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Other Word Forms

  • ձa ձ·· [tek, -see-, uh, n], adjective noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of texas1

1855–60; after Texas, from the fact that the officers' accommodation was the most spacious on the Mississippi steamboats, on which cabins were named after states
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Example Sentences

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His earned-run average rose a few points but remained at an NL-low 1.06, second to only Texas Rangers right-hander Tyler Mahle.

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Measles has been confirmed in a Los Angeles County resident who recently returned from Texas, a state that is in the midst of an outbreak of the highly infectious disease, health officials said Friday.

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The outbreak in Texas is one of the worst seen in the U.S. in years, and it has claimed the lives of two school-aged children who were unvaccinated and had no underlying medical conditions, according to a report published Thursday in the U.S.

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The measles outbreak in west Texas didn’t happen just by chance.

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The largest began in a close-knit community with low vaccination rates in Texas’ Gaines County, adjacent to New Mexico.

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