texas

[ tek-suhs ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

U.S. Nautical.

a deckhouse on a texas deck for the accommodation of officers.
texas deck.

Texas

[ tek-suhs ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

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

Texas

/ ˈ��ɛ��ə�� /

noun

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

Texas

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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Trump filed the lawsuit in Texas last October, alleging CBS deceptively edited a “60 Minutes” interview with then-Vice President Kamala Harris in an effort to prop up her election chances.

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His updated lawsuit attempted to steer the case away from 1st Amendment issues and instead claim “60 Minutes” was a fraudulent product that harmed viewers in Texas.

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“Climate change puts us all at risk, and we all need this vital information to help prepare,” said Katharine Hayhoe, a climate scientist at Texas Tech University who was an author of four previous versions of the report, including three times as a lead author.

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He spent two seasons as a reserve at Texas Southern before transferring to Florida A&M a year ago.

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“I’d expect non-expansion states like Florida, Texas and Georgia to fight for this proposal, because they haven’t expanded Medicaid and they wouldn’t be affected,” Alker says.

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Texarkana Texas City

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