HOUSTON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Houston mean? 

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

1. the largest city in Texas; located in southeastern Texas near the Gulf of Mexico; site of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration

2. United States politician and military leader who fought to gain independence for Texas from Mexico and to make it a part of the United States (1793-1863)

  Familiarity information: HOUSTON used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HOUSTON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The largest city in Texas; located in southeastern Texas near the Gulf of Mexico; site of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

city; metropolis; urban center (a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts)

port (a place (seaport or airport) where people and merchandise can enter or leave a country)

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

Lone-Star State; Tex.; Texas; TX (the second largest state; located in southwestern United States on the Gulf of Mexico)

Sense 2

Meaning:

United States politician and military leader who fought to gain independence for Texas from Mexico and to make it a part of the United States (1793-1863)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Houston; Sam Houston; Samuel Houston

Instance hypernyms:

full general; general (a general officer of the highest rank)

pol; political leader; politician; politico (a person active in party politics)

 Context examples 

A team at Houston Methodist Research Institute has been working to overcome the many hurdles to successful cancer treatment by harnessing nanotechnology to deliver drugs directly into cancerous cells.

(Injectable nanoparticles deliver cancer therapy in mice, NIH)

A new study by researchers at the University of Houston College of Optometry found that blue light emitted from digital devices could contribute to the high prevalence of reported sleep dysfunction.

(Artificial Light of Digital Devices Lessens Sleep Quality, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

There are also plans to test the technology at the MD Anderson Cancer Center and Baylor College of Medicine in Houston.

(New Invention Detects Cancer in Seconds, VOA/Elizabeth Lee)

Lindsey and Jonathan Ajo-Franklin, a geophysicist at Rice University in Houston, led the experiment with the assistance of Craig Dawe of MBARI, which owns the fiber-optic cable.

(Underwater telecom cables make superb seismic network, National Science Foundation)

Stephen Houston, professor of archaeology and anthropology at Brown University, told the BBC that the revelation of the sprawling Central American civilization was "breathtaking."

(Hidden Mayan Civilization Revealed in Guatemala Jungle, VOA)

Using ancient sediment from outcrops along the edge of the lake, Emily Beverly, a sedimentary geologist at the University of Houston, along with researchers at Baylor University, generated a water-budget model to see how Lake Victoria's levels respond to changes in evaporation, temperature, rainfall and solar energy.

(Environmental change in Africa: Will it lead to a drying Lake Victoria?, National Science Foundation)

Intracerebral hemorrhage is a damaging and often fatal form of stroke for which there are no effective medicines, said Jaroslaw Aronowski, M.D., Ph.D., professor, department of neurology, at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, and senior author of the study.

(Immune cells may heal bleeding brain after strokes, National Institutes of Health)

Global climate change could cause Africa's Lake Victoria, the world's largest tropical lake and source of the Nile River, to dry up in the next 500 years, according to new findings by a team led by University of Houston researchers.

(Environmental change in Africa: Will it lead to a drying Lake Victoria?, National Science Foundation)