NORTH CAROLINA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does North Carolina mean? 

• NORTH CAROLINA (noun)
  The noun NORTH CAROLINA has 2 senses:

1. a state in southeastern United States; one of the original 13 colonies

2. one of the British colonies that formed the United States

  Familiarity information: NORTH CAROLINA used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NORTH CAROLINA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A state in southeastern United States; one of the original 13 colonies

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

N.C.; NC; North Carolina; Old North State; Tar Heel State

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (parts of "North Carolina"):

Charlotte; Queen City (the largest city in North Carolina; located in south central North Carolina)

Pee Dee; Pee Dee River (a river that flows through central North Carolina and northeastern South Carolina to the Atlantic Ocean)

Cape Fear River (a river in North Carolina that flows southeast to the Atlantic Ocean at Cape Fear)

Blue Ridge; Blue Ridge Mountains (a range of the Appalachians extending from southern Pennsylvania to northern Georgia)

Winston-Salem (a city of north central North Carolina)

Wilmington (a town in southeastern North Carolina on the Cape Fear River)

Greenville (a city in eastern North Carolina; tobacco market)

Greensboro (a city of north central North Carolina)

Goldsboro (a town that is a major tobacco center in eastern North Carolina)

Fayetteville (a town in south central North Carolina)

Durham (a city of north central North Carolina; site of Duke University)

Great Smoky Mountains National Park (a national park in Tennessee and North Carolina that includes the highest mountain in the eastern United States)

Chapel Hill (a town in central North Carolina; site of the University of North Carolina)

Asheville (a town in western North Carolina in the Blue Ridge Mountains to the west of Charlotte)

capital of North Carolina; Raleigh (capital of the state of North Carolina; located in the east central part of the North Carolina)

Hatteras Island (a barrier island running parallel to the North Carolina shore)

Cape Hatteras (a promontory on Hatteras Island off the Atlantic coast of North Carolina)

Cape Fear (a cape in southeastern North Carolina extending into the Atlantic Ocean)

Holonyms ("North Carolina" 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)

South (the region of the United States lying to the south of the Mason-Dixon line)

Carolina; Carolinas (the area of the states of North Carolina and South Carolina)

Holonyms ("North Carolina" 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:

One of the British colonies that formed the United States

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

Colony (one of the 13 British colonies that formed the original states of the United States)

 Context examples 

In 2007, a team of the University of North Carolina School of Medicine developed a technology dubbed DREADD—Designer Receptors Exclusively Activated by Designer Drugs.

(Controlling Brain Circuits in Mice, NIH)

A team of researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill tested the approach as an early intervention in preschool-age children newly diagnosed with peanut allergy.

(Preschoolers benefit from peanut allergy therapy, NIH)

It was initially described among Native Americans belonging to the Haliwa-Saponi tribe of northeastern North Carolina.

(Hereditary Benign Intraepithelial Dyskeratosis, NCI Thesaurus)

To search for a potential pain reliever with fewer side effects than current opioids, a research team from the University of North Carolina and the University of California, San Francisco, screened more than 3 million compounds for those that may be able to turn on the Gi-mediated pathway, but not beta-arrestin.

(Designing more effective opioids, NIH)

Doctors from the Duke Center for Atrial Fibrillation in North Carolina, US, highlight that the chocolate eaters in the study were healthier and more highly educated — factors associated with better general health — which might have influenced the findings.

(Eat Chocolate for Steady Heartbea, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Scientists from the Universities of California and North Carolina, with several other universities in the United States and Canada, report a strong correlation between abnormal distribution of cerebrospinal fluid in infants and later development of autistic symptoms.

(Scientists say excess cerebrospinal fluid may serve as early sign of autism, Wikinews)

Women who experience pregnancy loss and do not go on to have children are at greater risk of cardiovascular disease, such as heart disease and stroke, compared with women who have only one or two children, according to new research from the University of Cambridge and the University of North Carolina.

(Pregnancy losses and large numbers of children linked with increased risk of cardiovascular disease, University of Cambridge)

Researchers from North Carolina State and Elon Universities have developed a technique that allows them to remotely control the movement of soft robots, lock them into position for as long as needed and later reconfigure the robots into new shapes.

(Technique uses magnets, light to control and reconfigure soft robots, National Science Foundation)

Here we got a rare chance to look at snapshots of genomes ‘before’ and ‘after’ a population decline in a single species, said Rebekah Rogers, who led the work as a postdoctoral scholar at Berkeley and is now an assistant professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

(Genetic ‘Mutational Meltdown’ Doomed Woolly Mammoths, VOA)

In a proof-of-concept study, North Carolina State University engineers designed a flexible thermoelectric energy harvester that has the potential to rival the effectiveness of existing power wearable electronic devices using body heat as the only source of energy.

(Flexible Wearable Electronics Use Body Heat for Energy, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)