PITTSBURGH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Pittsburgh mean? 

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

1. a city in southwestern Pennsylvania where the confluence of the Allegheny River and Monongahela River forms the Ohio River; long an important urban industrial area; site of Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PITTSBURGH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A city in southwestern Pennsylvania where the confluence of the Allegheny River and Monongahela River forms the Ohio River; long an important urban industrial area; site of Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

city; metropolis; urban center (a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts)

Meronyms (parts of "Pittsburgh"):

Carnegie Mellon University (an engineering university in Pittsburgh)

University of Pittsburgh (a university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)

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

Keystone State; PA; Pa.; Pennsylvania (a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies)

 Context examples 

A team led by Dr. Alejandro Hoberman at the University of Pittsburgh investigated whether a shortened course of antibiotics would work as well in young children as the standard 10-day treatment and reduce the risk of antibacterial resistance.

(No benefit to shortening ear infection treatment, NIH)

A team from the University of Chicago and the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine investigated whether a common but harmless type of virus that people are frequently exposed to, called reoviruses, can prompt sensitivity to dietary proteins.

(Virus linked to food sensitivity, NIH)

The group headquarters in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and has research sites at nearly 200 major medical centers, university hospitals, large oncology practice groups, and health maintenance organizations in the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico, and Australia.

(National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project, NCI Thesaurus)

Scientists at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), the University of Pittsburgh and the Salk Institute for Biological Studies report that the swim and tumble behavior bacteria use to move toward food or away from poisons changes when the bacteria encounter obstacles.

(Bacteria change behavior to tackle tiny obstacle course, National Science Foundation)