ARKANSAS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Arkansas mean? 

• ARKANSAS (noun)
  The noun ARKANSAS has 2 senses:

1. a state in south central United States; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War

2. a river that rises in the Rocky Mountains in Colorado and flows southeast through Kansas and Oklahoma and through Arkansas to become a tributary of the Mississippi River

  Familiarity information: ARKANSAS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ARKANSAS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A state in south central United States; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

AR; Ark.; Arkansas; Land of Opportunity

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (parts of "Arkansas"):

Texarkana (a town in southwest Arkansas on the Texas border adjacent to Texarkana, Texas)

White; White River (a tributary of the Mississippi River that flows southeastward through northern Arkansas and southern Missouri)

Saint Francis; Saint Francis River; St. Francis; St. Francis River (a tributary of the Mississippi River that rises in Missouri and flows southeastward through Arkansas)

Ozark Mountains; Ozark Plateau; Ozarks (an area of low mountains in northwestern Arkansas and southeastern Missouri and northeastern Oklahoma)

Ouachita; Ouachita River (a river that rises in western Arkansas and flows southeast into eastern Louisiana to become a tributary of the Red River)

Arkansas; Arkansas River (a river that rises in the Rocky Mountains in Colorado and flows southeast through Kansas and Oklahoma and through Arkansas to become a tributary of the Mississippi River)

Hot Springs National Park (a national park in Arkansas featuring ancient hot springs; bathing is said to have therapeutic effects)

Pine Bluff (a town in southeast central Arkansas on the Arkansas River)

capital of Arkansas; Little Rock (the state capital and largest city of Arkansas in the central part of Arkansas on the Arkansas River)

Jonesboro (a town in northeast Arkansas)

Hot Springs (a town in west central Arkansas; a health resort noted for thermal springs)

Fort Smith (a town in western Arkansas on the Arkansas River at the Oklahoma border)

Fayetteville (a university town in northwestern Arkansas in the Ozarks)

Holonyms ("Arkansas" 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)

Holonyms ("Arkansas" is a member of...):

Confederacy; Confederate States; Confederate States of America; Dixie; Dixieland; South (the southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A river that rises in the Rocky Mountains in Colorado and flows southeast through Kansas and Oklahoma and through Arkansas to become a tributary of the Mississippi River

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

Arkansas; Arkansas River

Instance hypernyms:

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

Holonyms ("Arkansas" is a part of...):

AR; Ark.; Arkansas; Land of Opportunity (a state in south central United States; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War)

Centennial State; CO; Colo.; Colorado (a state in west central United States in the Rocky Mountains)

Kan.; Kansas; KS; Sunflower State (a state in midwestern United States)

OK; Okla.; Oklahoma; Sooner State (a state in south central United States)

 Context examples 

"There is a dynamic and complex relationship among land cover types that are constantly changing," said lead author J. Tyler Fox of the University of Arkansas.

(Land cover change in Botswana savannas: Don't blame the elephants, National Science Foundation)

Plants and animals exploit fundamentally different approaches to transporting fluids, chemicals, and macromolecules, yet there are surprising similarities in their vascular network structures, said researchers from Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Arkansas State University-Jonesboro.

(Human Heart Cells Grown on Spinach Leaves, VOA News)

A new study by chemists at the University of Arkansas shows that X-ray crystallography, the standard method for determining the structure of proteins, may provide inaccurate information about a critical set of proteins — those found in cell membranes — which in turn could be leading to poor and inefficient drug design.

(Study shows limitations of method for determining protein structure, National Science Foundation)

Moradi and his team have addressed the problem of relying on X-ray crystallography by using a supercomputer at the Arkansas High Performance Computing Center to run continuous, microsecond-level computations simulating the molecular dynamics of membrane proteins.

(Study shows limitations of method for determining protein structure, National Science Foundation)