KS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does KS mean? 

• KS (noun)
  The noun KS has 1 sense:

1. a state in midwestern United States

  Familiarity information: KS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• KS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A state in midwestern United States

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Kan.; Kansas; KS; Sunflower State

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (parts of "KS"):

Chisholm Trail (a former cattle trail from San Antonio in Texas to Abilene in Kansas; not used after the 1880s)

Dodge City (a town of southwestern Kansas on the Arkansas River; formerly a rowdy cow town)

Abilene (a town in central Kansas to the west of Topeka; home of Dwight D. Eisenhower)

Hays (a town in central Kansas)

Kansas City (a city of northeast Kansas on the Missouri River adjacent to Kansas City, Missouri)

Lawrence (a town in northeastern Kansas on the Kansas River; scene of raids by John Brown in 1856)

Salina (a town in central Kansas)

capital of Kansas; Topeka (the capital of the state of Kansas; located in eastern Kansas on the Kansas river)

Wichita (the largest city in Kansas; located in southern Kansas on the Arkansas 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)

Kansas; Kansas River; Kaw River (a river in northeastern Kansas; flows eastward to become a tributary of the Missouri River)

Neosho; Neosho River (a river that rises in eastern Kansas and flows eastward into Oklahoma to become a tributary of the Arkansas River)

Republican; Republican River (a tributary of the Kansas River that flows from eastern Colorado eastward through Nebraska and Kansas)

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

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)

 Context examples 

KS males may have learning or language problems.

(Klinefelter's Syndrome, NIH: National Institute of Child Health and Human Development)

Keratan sulfate (KS) is a glycosaminoglycan with the basic disaccharide unit of N-acetyllactosamine, Gal(b1-4)GlcNAc(b1-3), with sulfate esters at C-6 of GlcNAc and Gal residues.

(Glycosaminoglycan Biosynthesis Pathway - Keratan Sulfate, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)

However, treating KS does not improve survival from HIV/AIDS itself.

(Kaposi's Sarcoma, NIH: National Cancer Institute)

A genetic test can diagnose KS.

(Klinefelter's Syndrome, NIH: National Institute of Child Health and Human Development)

There are two types of KS distinguished by the protein linkage: type I for N-linked via the N-glycan core structure and type II for O-linked via the O-glycan core 2 structure.

(Glycosaminoglycan Biosynthesis Pathway - Keratan Sulfate, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)

Before the HIV/AIDS epidemic, KS usually developed slowly.

(Kaposi's Sarcoma, NIH: National Cancer Institute)

Klinefelter's syndrome (KS) is a condition that occurs in men who have an extra X chromosome.

(Klinefelter's Syndrome, NIH: National Institute of Child Health and Human Development)