texas

[ tek-suhs ]

/ ˈtɛk səs /

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noun U.S. Nautical.

a deckhouse on a texas deck for the accommodation of officers.

texas deck.

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Origin of texas

1855–60; 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 texas

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Other definitions for texas (2 of 2)

Texas

[ tek-suhs ]

/ ˈtɛk səs /

noun

a state in the southern United States. 267,339 sq. mi. (692,410 sq. km). Capital: Austin. Abbreviations: TX (for use with zip code), Tex.

OTHER WORDS FROM Texas

Texan, Tex·i·an

[tek-see-uhn], /ˈtɛk si ən/, adjective, noun

WORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH Texas

Texan , Tucson, Tuscan

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How to use texas in a sentence

In the wake of the Texas blackout, it’s sobering to note how many of these artworks, even the ones that don’t move, required electricity.
In the galleries: A focus on the intersection of art and movement|Mark Jenkins|February 26, 2021|Washington Post
The Texas example shows how ratepayers can be left holding the bag when that calculus doesn’t, or can’t, account for increasingly erratic extreme weather events.
Who should pay to fix the electric grid?|Tim McDonnell|February 26, 2021|Quartz
A Texas grocery store lost power and let people leave without paying.
Texas is in desperate need of plumbers. Two brothers-in-law drove more than 20 hours straight to help.|Lateshia Beachum|February 26, 2021|Washington Post
She said she thinks Texas is the only other state that builds in “additional protections” for motorists via a soft-rate cap that can be exceeded only under certain conditions.
Maryland reveals potential toll rates for proposed HOT lanes on Beltway, I-270|Katherine Shaver|February 26, 2021|Washington Post

The severe weather and power outages affected many households and lenders in Texas, causing a drop of more than 40 percent in both purchase and refinance applications in the state.
Mortgage rates surge higher for second week in a row|Kathy Orton|February 25, 2021|Washington Post
This is not making the 228,000 residents of Irving, Texas feel very relaxed.
26 Earthquakes Later, Fracking’s Smoking Gun Is in Texas|James Joiner|January 7, 2015|DAILY BEAST
The energy economy has always been a fixture of Texas life, and that has not changed.
Will Texas Stay Texan?|David Fontana|December 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST
This “Sixth Migration” of massive human migration to Texas is the larger story of the book, and it is a significant story.
Will Texas Stay Texan?|David Fontana|December 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Texas has also started to become an engine of economic growth.
Will Texas Stay Texan?|David Fontana|December 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Even the legendary 1980s televisions show Dallas is back on the air, selling its twenty-first century brand of Texas bravado.
Will Texas Stay Texan?|David Fontana|December 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Ten thousand of the best troops in Mexico entered Texas and were shortly to be followed by ten thousand more.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXIX. January, 1844. Vol. LV.|Various
From Canada on the north, to Texas on the south, the hot winds had laid the land seemingly bare.
The Homesteader|Oscar Micheaux
But here at Fort Walsh we're among a class of people that are a heap different from Texas cow-punchers.
Raw Gold|Bertrand W. Sinclair
It was a brilliant blue job with red wheels, and it carried a Texas license.
Hooded Detective, Volume III No. 2, January, 1942|Various
Tyler approved the annexation of Texas to the Union near the end of his Presidential administration.
Hallowed Heritage: The Life of Virginia|Dorothy M. Torpey

British Dictionary definitions for texas

Texas

/ (ˈtɛksəs) /

noun

a 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

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Cultural definitions for texas

Texas

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 Texas

One of the border states with Mexico; Mexican aliens often cross the border into Texas.

notes for Texas

One of the Confederate states during the Civil War.

notes for Texas

Long the largest state, it became second largest with the admission of Alaska as the forty-ninth state in 1959.