Houston

[ hyoo-stuhn ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

Sam(uel), 1793–1863, U.S. soldier and political leader: president of the Republic of Texas 1836–38 and 1841–44.
a city in SE Texas: a port on a ship canal, about 50 miles (80 km) from the Gulf of Mexico.

Houston

/ ˈhjuːstən /

an inland port in SE Texas, linked by the Houston Ship Canal to the Gulf of Mexico and the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway: capital of the Republic of Texas (1837–39; 1842–45); site of the Manned Spacecraft Center (1964). Pop: 2 009 690 (2003 est)

Houston

A center of the oil industry and the headquarters of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration .

“Officers had to go stop an elderly lady from being assaulted,” Sgt. Houston said.

Houston has the largest medical center in the world, and the largest export port in the entire country.

A tense commute to work in Houston will start to resemble a tense commute in Boston or New York City.

Reconcile is a rapper from Houston, a city with a rich hip-hop legacy.

But Reconcile is from a slightly different arm of Houston hip-hop—more focused on spiritual triumph over the trap.

General Houston had attacked them with three hundred of our people, but had not been able to break their ranks.

Our army, under the command of General Houston, was in front of Harrisburg, to which place the congress had retreated.

We were interrupted at this moment by a message from General Houston, to whom we immediately hastened.

Do you remember that glorious face, so strong and tender, on the wall of our little Houston Street hallroom?

Tilly blushed and shrugged her shoulders; but she asked no more questions about Fort Sam Houston for at least five minutes.

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