INDIANA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Indiana mean? 

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

1. a state in midwestern United States

2. United States pop artist (born 1928)

  Familiarity information: INDIANA used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INDIANA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A state in midwestern United States

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Hoosier State; IN; Ind.; Indiana

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (parts of "Indiana"):

Bloomington (a university town in south central Indiana)

Evansville (a city in southwestern Indiana on the Ohio River)

Fort Wayne (a city in northeastern Indiana)

Gary (a city in northwest Indiana on Lake Michigan; steel production)

capital of Indiana; Indianapolis (the capital and largest city of Indiana; a major commercial center in the country's heartland; site of an annual 500-mile automobile race)

Lafayette (a university town in west central Indiana on the Wabash River)

Muncie (a town in east central Indiana)

South Bend (a city in northern Indiana)

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

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

Corn Belt (the midwestern states in the U.S. where corn is grown; Iowa and Illinois are excellent for raising corn and corn-fed livestock)

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:

United States pop artist (born 1928)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Indiana; Robert Indiana

Hypernyms ("Indiana" is a kind of...):

artist; creative person (a person whose creative work shows sensitivity and imagination)

 Context examples 

A team led by Dr. Stuart J. Warden of Indiana University explored whether any bone benefits of physical activity during youth persist with aging.

(Physical Activity Brings Lasting Bone Benefits, NIH, US)

Lixin Wang of Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, senior author of the research, said, When plants use a lot of water, there will be less water for people.

(Previously unknown mechanism causes increased forest water use, National Science Foundation)

Dr. Anantha Shekhar and colleagues at Indiana University and Lund University set out to further investigate the role of orexin in panic attacks.

(The Mechanism of Panic Attacks, NIH, US)

The Indiana University Cancer Center's mission is to advance the understanding, prevention, and treatment of cancer with patient-centered care, acceleration of promising science, and collaborative educational programs.

(Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Cancer Center, NCI Thesaurus)

That's the theory put forth by NASA-funded scientists at Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana.

(Does Mars Have Rings? Not Right Now, But Maybe One Day, NASA)

Sheridan Ackiss of Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, and collaborators used the orbiter's mineral-mapping spectrometer to investigate surface composition in an oddly textured region of southern Mars called Sisyphi Montes.

(Clues about Volcanoes Under Ice on Ancient Mars, NASA)

A census division of the United States consisting of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, and Wisconsin.

(East North Central States Census Division, NCI Thesaurus)

A census region of the United States consisting of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota.

(Midwestern United States Census Region, NCI Thesaurus)

We recently identified a molecule called Alda-1 that activates the defective enzyme, and (...) we determined how this activation is achieved, said Thomas D. Hurley, Ph.D., professor and associate chairman of biochemistry and molecular biology at Indiana University School of Medicine.

(Alcohol Could be Toxic and Cause DNA Damage for Some People, NIH, US)

The researchers, from the University of California, San Francisco; the University of California, Santa Cruz; Indiana University; Washington University School of Medicine; and Harvard Medical School, published their findings in a recent issue of the journal Cell.

(Human Body Microbes Make Antibiotics, Study Finds, NCCAM)