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Eleanor & Park
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- She figured she could walk as far as the interstate; then she'd stick out her thumb for station wagons and minivans.†
p. 290.6standard prefix: When a word begins with the prefix, "inter-", the prefix often means between. In this case, interstate means between different states. Interstate is often used as an abbreviation for interstate highway, a highway that runs between states. It has also come to mean freeway in a place like Hawaii where no major highway connects to another state.
- Then he got on the interstate heading west instead of east, and it took twenty minutes to turn around again.†
p. 298.4 *
- They got off the interstate again somewhere in Iowa to get gas and a map.†
p. 298.9
Definitions:
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(1)
(interstate as in: interstate commerce) freeway, or highway that runs between states
or:
relating to the mutual relations between states -- especially of the United StatesNote that interstate is often contrasted with intrastate. An intrastate highway is used to move from one location in a state to another, rather than to move between states. Similarly, interstate commerce is business between states; whereas intrastate commerce affects a state without affecting other states. Under the U.S. Constitution, the interstate/intrastate distinction is important when determining when the federal government has authority to override state government. - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)