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interstate
in
All the Bright Places, by Niven
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- I didn't feel like coming to school, so I hit the interstate and didn't look back.†
p. 34.1standard 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.
- I, Theodore Finch, being of unsound mind, hereby swear not to drive faster than thirty miles per hour through town, fifty on the interstate.†
p. 125.4 *
- He misses the turnoff, goes right over the grassy center to the other side, and climbs back onto the interstate, heading in the opposite direction.†
p. 134.2
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)