UT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does UT mean? 

• UT (noun)
  The noun UT has 3 senses:

1. the local time at the 0 meridian passing through Greenwich, England; it is the same everywhere

2. a state in the western United States; settled in 1847 by Mormons led by Brigham Young

3. the syllable naming the first (tonic) note of any major scale in solmization

  Familiarity information: UT used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The local time at the 0 meridian passing through Greenwich, England; it is the same everywhere

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

GMT; Greenwich Mean Time; Greenwich Time; universal time; UT; UT1

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

time (the continuum of experience in which events pass from the future through the present to the past)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "UT"):

coordinated universal time; UTC (Greenwich Mean Time updated with leap seconds)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A state in the western United States; settled in 1847 by Mormons led by Brigham Young

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Beehive State; Mormon State; UT; Ut.; Utah

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (parts of "UT"):

Green; Green River (a river that rises in western Wyoming and flows southward through Utah to become a tributary of the Colorado River)

Great Salt Lake (a shallow body of salt water in northwestern Utah)

Colorado Plateau (a large plateau to the south and west of the Rocky Mountains; abuts mountains on the north and east and ends in an escarpment overlooking lowlands to the south and west; the Grand Canyon is carved out of the southwestern corner)

Colorado; Colorado River (an important river in the southwestern United States; rises in the Rocky Mountains of northern Colorado and flows southwest through Utah into Arizona (where it flows through the Grand Canyon) and then southward through the southern tip of Nevada, then forming the border between California and Arizona and finally into Mexico where it empties into the Gulf of California; the main source of water in the southwestern United States)

capital of Utah; Salt Lake City (the capital and largest city of Utah; located near the Great Salt Lake in north central Utah; world capital of the Mormon Church)

Provo (a city in north central Utah settled by Mormons)

Ogden (a town in northern Utah settled by Mormons)

Zion National Park (a national park in Utah having huge canyons and gorges carved by mountain rivers)

Capitol Reef National Park (a national park in Utah having colorful rock formations and desert plants and wildlife)

Canyonlands National Park (a national park in Utah having rock formations and ancient cliff dwellings; canyons of the Green River and the Colorado River)

Bryce Canyon National Park (a national park in Utah having multicolored rock erosions)

Arches National Park (a national park in Utah including mountains and the Colorado River gorge and huge rock formations caused by erosion)

Mormon Tabernacle; Tabernacle (the Mormon temple)

Lake Powell (the second largest reservoir in the United States; located in southern Utah and north central Arizona and formed by the Glen Canyon Dam on the Colorado River)

Holonyms ("UT" 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 3

Meaning:

The syllable naming the first (tonic) note of any major scale in solmization

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

do; doh; ut

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

solfa syllable (one of the names for notes of a musical scale in solmization)

 Context examples 

Scientists at the Children's Medical Center Research Institute at UT Southwestern (CRI) have discovered that lactate provides a fuel for growing tumors, challenging a nearly century-old observation known as the Warburg effect.

(Study Challenges Long-Standing Concept in Cancer Metabolism, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

It is part of UT Medicine San Antonio, the clinical practice of the School of Medicine at the UT Health Science Center.

(Cancer Therapy and Research Center, NCI Thesaurus)

The research team, led by drug delivery pioneer Nicholas Peppas, conducted the study over four years at UT's Institute for Biomaterials, Drug Delivery & Regenerative Medicine.

(Novel nanogels hold promise for improved drug delivery to cancer patients, National Science Foundation)

Mice on a reduced calorie plan that ate only during their normal feeding/active cycle were the only ones among five groups to lose weight, despite consuming the same amount as another group fed during their rest time in daylight, according to the study at UT Southwestern Medical Center.

(Eating at 'Wrong Time' Affects Body Weight, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The UT researchers reviewed 5,322 studies.

(Bathing 90 minutes before bedtime can improve sleep quality, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The UT Southwestern study expands a growing body of evidence showing that patients with some chronic illnesses who are mildly obese can have better outcomes compared with people of normal weight — a finding called the obesity paradox.

(Mildly Obese Fare Better after Major Heart Attack, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The finding — a collaboration between UT Southwestern's Peter O'Donnell Jr. Brain Institute and two other medical centers — gives scientists a new target besides the brain to develop therapies for people with excessive sleepiness.

(Muscle, Not Brain, May Hold Answers to Some Sleep Disorders, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

This is the first randomized and controlled trial ... to assess effects of exercise on brain structure, function and amyloid burden in older adults who have memory problems, thus, high risks of Alzheimer's disease, said lead author Rong Zhang, a neurology professor at UT Southwestern Medical Center.

(Aerobic Exercise Slows Cognitive Decline in Adults at Risk of Alzheimer's, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)