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NEVADA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A state in the western United States
Synonyms:
Battle Born State; Nev.; Nevada; NV; Sagebrush State; Silver State
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
American state (one of the 50 states of the United States)
Meronyms (parts of "Nevada"):
Hoover Dam (a large dam built in 1933 on the Colorado River in Nevada)
Lake Mead (the largest reservoir in the United States; located in southeastern Nevada and northwestern Arizona and formed by the Hoover Dam on the Colorado River; the center of a recreational area)
capital of Nevada; Carson City (capital of the state of Nevada; located in western Nevada)
Las Vegas (largest city in Nevada; located in southeastern Nevada; originally settled by Mormons but is now famous for entertainment and gambling and general excess)
Reno (a city in western Nevada at the foot of the Sierra Nevada Mountains; known for gambling casinos and easy divorce and remarriage)
Black Rock Desert (a desert in northwestern Nevada)
Death Valley (a desert area that is part of the Mojave Desert in eastern California and southwestern Nevada; contains the lowest point in North America)
Lake Tahoe (a lake on the border between Nevada and California to the west of Carson City; a popular resort area)
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)
Holonyms ("Nevada" is a part of...):
Southwest; southwestern United States (the southwestern region of the United States generally including New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, California, and sometimes Utah and Colorado)
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:
Loss of water from the rocks of California's Sierra Nevada caused the mountain range to rise nearly an inch (24 millimeters) in height during the drought years from October 2011 to October 2015.
(Sierras Lost Water Weight, Grew Taller During Drought, NASA)
The observations were carried out using the CARMENES instrument (Calar Alto High-Resolution Search for M dwarfs with Exoearths with Near-infrared and optical Échelle Spectrographs) at the Calar Alto Observatory in Almería, as well as at smaller, complementary facilities, such as the Sierra Nevada Observatory in Granada and the Joan Oró Telescope at the Observatori Astronomic del Montsec, which pertains to the Institut d’Estudis Espacials de Catalunya (IEEC).
(Researchers find two new planets with masses similar to Earth’s near a small neighbouring star, University of Granada)
Trees growing atop granite in the southern Sierra Nevada Mountains rely on nutrients from windborne dust more than on nutrients from the underlying bedrock.
(Study reveals surprising role of dust in mountain ecosystems, National Science Foundation)
Thursday night, "Alien Stock" was held in downtown Las Vegas, Nevada with involvement of original poster Matty Roberts.
(Millions don't turn up to 'storm' US airbase for extraterrestrial evidence, Wikinews)
The archaeological and historical research conducted on this project has shown that there were acequias de careo operating in Sierra Nevada as early as the 11th Century.
(Researchers demonstrate that Sierra Nevada is home to the oldest underground water recharge system in Europe, University of Granada)
A University of Wyoming researcher and his team have discovered that weathering of subsurface rock in the southern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California is due more to rocks expanding than to chemical decomposition, as previously thought.
(Study explores how rock expands near soil surface in Sierra Nevada, National Science Foundation)
The birds the model predicted would require the most extra water today, compared to 100 years ago, were the species that declined the most in the Mojave Desert, straddling the border between California and Nevada, over the past century.
(Collapse of desert bird populations likely due to heat stress from climate change, National Science Foundation)
Friday September 22 2019, was when, according to earlier event plans, millions of people were to storm Area 51, a classified facility within the United States Air Force's Nevada Test and Training Range, and the world was to finally learn of its secrets.
(Millions don't turn up to 'storm' US airbase for extraterrestrial evidence, Wikinews)
These calculations show that the practices of sowing and harvesting water on Sierra Nevada date back about 1,300 years.
(Researchers demonstrate that Sierra Nevada is home to the oldest underground water recharge system in Europe, University of Granada)
A multidisciplinary group of scientists from the Geological and Mining Institute of Spain (IGME) and the Universities of Granada, Cologne, and Lisbon has demonstrated that the traditional careo underground aquifer recharge system used in Sierra Nevada is the oldest in Europe.
(Researchers demonstrate that Sierra Nevada is home to the oldest underground water recharge system in Europe, University of Granada)
