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texas
1[ tek-suhs ]
Texas
2[ tek-suhs ]
noun
- a state in the southern United States. 267,339 sq. mi. (692,410 sq. km). : Austin. : TX (for use with zip code), Tex.
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) AbbreviationTexwith zip codeTX
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
Other Words From
- Texan Tex·i·an [tek, -see-, uh, n], adjective noun
Word History and Origins
Example Sentences
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.
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.
A Texas grocery store lost power and let people leave without paying.
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.
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.
This is not making the 228,000 residents of Irving, Texas feel very relaxed.
The energy economy has always been a fixture of Texas life, and that has not changed.
This “Sixth Migration” of massive human migration to Texas is the larger story of the book, and it is a significant story.
Texas has also started to become an engine of economic growth.
Even the legendary 1980s televisions show Dallas is back on the air, selling its twenty-first century brand of Texas bravado.
Ten thousand of the best troops in Mexico entered Texas and were shortly to be followed by ten thousand more.
From Canada on the north, to Texas on the south, the hot winds had laid the land seemingly bare.
But here at Fort Walsh we're among a class of people that are a heap different from Texas cow-punchers.
It was a brilliant blue job with red wheels, and it carried a Texas license.
Tyler approved the annexation of Texas to the Union near the end of his Presidential administration.
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