TEXAS Definition & Meaning

texas

[ tek-suhs ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

U.S. Nautical.

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

Texas

[ tek-suhs ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

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

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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 .

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

One of the Confederate states during the Civil War .

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

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Other �y��vlog Forms

�ձ��a�� �ձ��·��·�� [tek, -see-, uh, n], adjective noun

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of texas¹

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

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Ted Cruz, an arch-conservative senator from Texas, said on his podcast on Friday that Trump's tariffs "could hurt jobs and could hurt America" - particularly if other nations retaliate, as China has already done.

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Less than a year later, as a college freshman in Texas, Zhong was hired by Google for a software engineering position that typically requires an advanced degree.

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Zhong was granted admission to the University of Texas in Austin and the University of Maryland.

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Texas Senator Ted Cruz told Fox Business on Thursday that long-term high tariffs weren’t good economic policy.

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But the crowded roster didn’t deter Barker, a 6-foot-4 forward who starred at Texas A&M.

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