| 单词 | texas |
| 释义 | texas[ tek-suhs ] / ˈtɛk səs / noun U.S. Nautical.a deckhouse on a texas deck for the accommodation of officers. texas deck. Origin of texas1855–60; after Texas, from the fact that the officers' accommodation was the most spacious on the Mississippi steamboats, on which cabins were named after states Words nearby texasTewkesbury, Tewksbury, Tex., Texan, Texarkana, texas, Texas City, texas deck, Texas fever, Texas hedge, Texas hold 'em Definition for texas (2 of 2)Texas [ tek-suhs ] / ˈtɛk səs / nouna state in the S United States. 267,339 sq. mi. (692,410 sq. km). Capital: Austin. Abbreviation: Tex., TX (for use with zip code). OTHER WORDS FROM TexasTexan, Tex·i·an [tek-see-uhn], /ˈtɛk si ən/, adjective, nounWORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH TexasTexan , Tucson, TuscanDictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for texasBritish Dictionary definitions for texasTexas / (ˈtɛksəs) / nouna state of the southwestern US, on the Gulf of Mexico: the second largest state; part of Mexico from 1821 to 1836, when it was declared an independent republic; joined the US in 1845; consists chiefly of a plain, with a wide flat coastal belt rising up to the semiarid Sacramento and Davis Mountains of the southwest; a major producer of cotton, rice, and livestock; the chief US producer of oil and gas; a leading world supplier of sulphur. Capital: Austin. Pop: 22 118 509 (2003 est). Area: 678 927 sq km (262 134 sq miles)Abbreviation: Tex, (with zip code) TX Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Cultural definitions for texasTexas State in the southwestern United States bordered by Oklahoma to the north, Arkansas and Louisiana to the east, the Gulf of Mexico and Mexico to the south, and New Mexico to the west. Its capital is Austin, and its largest city is Houston. notes for TexasOne of the border states with Mexico; Mexican aliens often cross the border into Texas. notes for TexasOne of the Confederate states during the Civil War. notes for TexasLong the largest state, it became second largest with the admission of Alaska as the forty-ninth state in 1959. The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved. |
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