Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Involving, existing between, or connecting two or more states.
- noun One of a national system of expressways connecting major population centers in the United States.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Existing or taking place between different states, or persons in different states; especially, carried on between the States of the American Union, or by persons in one State with persons in another.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Pertaining to the mutual relations of States; existing between, or including, different States.
- noun An interstate highway, part of the United States Interstate Highway system.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective US of, or relating to two or more
states - adjective US crossing
states (usually provincial state, but also e.g.multinational sense). - noun US A
freeway that is part of the Interstate Highway System
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun one of the system of highways linking major cities in the 48 contiguous states of the United States
- adjective involving and relating to the mutual relations of states especially of the United States
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Examples
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It's not a large zoo, compared with the Atlanta Zoo, and the interstate is annoyingly near (almost directly on top of the elephants).
Airborne Toxic Event + People in Airplanes greygirlbeast 2009
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I like to suck the cocks of fat, butch truck drivers in interstate rest area bathrooms.
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The were looking to push and test states who refused to comply with the recent Supreme Court decision, Irene Morgan v. Commonwealth of Virginia (1946), which said racial discrimination could no longer happen in interstate travel.
Taj James: Movement Building and Deep Change: A Call to Mobilize Strong and Weak Ties Taj James 2010
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The were looking to push and test states who refused to comply with the recent Supreme Court decision, Irene Morgan v. Commonwealth of Virginia (1946), which said racial discrimination could no longer happen in interstate travel.
Taj James: Movement Building and Deep Change: A Call to Mobilize Strong and Weak Ties Taj James 2010
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ÂThe were looking to push and test states who refused to comply with Âthe recent Supreme Court decision, Irene Morgan v. Commonwealth of Virginia (1946), which said racial discrimination could no longer happen in interstate travel.
Taj James: Movement Building and Deep Change: A Call to Mobilize Strong and Weak Ties Taj James 2010
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Firearms are certainly products used in interstate commerce.
Matthew Yglesias » Constitutional Objections to Health Reform 2010
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On the other hand, when it gets to the point that five or more prominent jurists will agree that an individual is engaged in interstate commerce when he plants a seed, and waters the soil in which the seed is planted, with the intent of consuming the resulting plant, well, there is no point in talking about constitutional limits to state power.
Matthew Yglesias » Constitutional Objections to Health Reform 2010
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The were looking to push and test states who refused to comply with the recent Supreme Court decision, Irene Morgan v. Commonwealth of Virginia (1946), which said racial discrimination could no longer happen in interstate travel.
Taj James: Movement Building and Deep Change: A Call to Mobilize Strong and Weak Ties Taj James 2010
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Modern Commerce clause jurisprudence deems relevant not just the activities but persons and things involved in interstate commerce.
Matthew Yglesias » Constitutional Objections to Health Reform 2010
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ÂThe were looking to push and test states who refused to comply with Âthe recent Supreme Court decision, Irene Morgan v. Commonwealth of Virginia (1946), which said racial discrimination could no longer happen in interstate travel.
Taj James: Movement Building and Deep Change: A Call to Mobilize Strong and Weak Ties Taj James 2010
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