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 Dictionary entry overview: What does OR mean? 

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

1. a state in northwestern United States on the Pacific

2. a room in a hospital equipped for the performance of surgical operations

  Familiarity information: OR used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A state in northwestern United States on the Pacific

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Beaver State; OR; Ore.; Oregon

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (parts of "OR"):

Pacific Northwest (a region of the northwestern United States usually including Washington and Oregon and sometimes southwestern British Columbia)

Crater Lake National Park (a national park in Oregon having the deepest lake in the United States in the crater of an extinct volcano)

Bend (a town in central Oregon at the eastern foot of the Cascade Range)

Eugene (a city in western Oregon on the Willamette River; site of a university)

Klamath Falls (a town in southern Oregon near the California border)

Medford (a town in southwestern Oregon; a summer resort)

Portland (freshwater port and largest city in Oregon; located in northwestern Oregon on the Willamette River which divides the city into east and west sections; renowned for its beautiful natural setting among the mountains)

capital of Oregon; Salem (capital of the state of Oregon in the northwestern part of the state on the Willamette River)

Klamath; Klamath River (a river flowing southwest from Oregon through northern California to the Pacific Ocean)

Snake; Snake River (a tributary of the Columbia River that rises in Wyoming and flows westward; discovered in 1805 by the Lewis and Clark Expedition)

Willamette; Willamette River (a river in western Oregon that flows north into the Columbia River near Portland)

Holonyms ("OR" 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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A room in a hospital equipped for the performance of surgical operations

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

operating room; operating theater; operating theatre; OR; surgery

Context example:

great care is taken to keep the operating rooms aseptic

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

hospital room (a room in a hospital for the care of patients)

 Context examples 

A response indicating that something happens or happened a good bit of the time.

(A Good Bit of the Time, NCI Thesaurus)

Encoded by human AKAP12 Gene, A Kinase Anchor Protein 12 is expressed in endothelial cells, but not in platelets or peripheral blood cells.

(A Kinase Anchor Protein 12, NCI Thesaurus)

"Not for a year or two. I won't go before seventeen, anyway."

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

And she had found him, or what remained of him, at the end of the trail.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

AKAP13 stimulates RHO/RAC, but not CDC42 or RAS.

(A Kinase Anchor Protein 13, NCI Thesaurus)

A response indicating that something happens or happened a little of the time.

(A Little of the Time, NCI Thesaurus)

Surely it might be a coincidence, or this American may have seen a picture of the kind and carried it in his memory.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And at such times that money passed between them the strangers took one or more of the dogs away with them.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Maybe you’ve heard or read about its potential benefits.

(Can Chocolate Really Be Good for You?, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The hero, however, went to the king, who was now, whether he liked it or not, obliged to keep his promise, and gave his daughter and the half of his kingdom.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)