OHIO

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Ohio mean? 

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

1. a midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region

2. a river that is formed in western Pennsylvania and flows westward to become a tributary of the Mississippi River

  Familiarity information: OHIO used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OHIO (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Buckeye State; OH; Ohio

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (parts of "Ohio"):

Akron (a city in northeastern Ohio; the heart of the United States rubber industry)

Athens (a town in southeast Ohio)

Cleveland (the largest city in Ohio; located in northeastern Ohio on Lake Erie; a major Great Lakes port)

Cincinnati (a city in southern Ohio on the Ohio river)

capital of Ohio; Columbus (the state capital of Ohio; located in the center of the state; site of Ohio State University)

Dayton (a city in southwest Ohio; manufacturing center)

Mansfield (a town in north central Ohio)

Toledo (an industrial city in northwestern Ohio on Lake Erie)

Youngstown (a city in northeast Ohio)

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

Holonyms ("Ohio" 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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A river that is formed in western Pennsylvania and flows westward to become a tributary of the Mississippi River

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

Ohio; Ohio River

Instance hypernyms:

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

Holonyms ("Ohio" 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)

 Context examples 

Researchers at Ohio University have found the oldest definitive fossil evidence of modern, venomous snakes in Africa.

(Researchers find oldest fossil evidence of modern African venomous snakes, NSF)

A team from Ohio State University set out to improve the ability of the heart to contract by using protein engineering.

(Engineered protein restores heart function, NIH)

An experiment by researchers of Ohio State University focused on movie characters with guns.

(Better Not to Show Kids Movies with Guns, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The study involved 775 participants recruited from an Ohio children's hospital who were measured for the elasticity or distensibility of their brachial artery (BrachD), located in the upper arm.

(Too Much Salt? Unhealthy Blood Vessels Changes, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Scientists from James Cook University and Ohio University discovered the oldest known examples of "fungus gardens" in 25 million-year-old fossil termite nests in East Africa.

(Researchers discover oldest evidence of 'farming' by insects, NSF)

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)

A team of researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology and The Ohio State University has developed a material called magnetic shape memory polymer that uses magnetic fields to transform into a variety of shapes.

(Tiny magnetic particles enable new material to bend, twist and grab, National Science Foundation)

Researchers from the University of Colorado at Boulder (CU Boulder) in Colorado and the College of Wooster in Ohio reported a new mechanism by which warm ocean currents erode the ice shelves along the coast of Antarctica, contributing to the planet's rising oceans.

(Scientists describe how 'upside-down rivers' of warm water break Antarctica's ice shelf, Wikinews)

A dinosaur that wore its heart on its tail is providing new clues to how ecosystems evolved on the African continent during the Cretaceous Period some 100 million years ago, according to researchers at Ohio University.

(New dinosaur with heart-shaped tail offers clues to evolution of Africa's ecosystems, National Science Foundation)