interstate
adj/ˈɪntɚˌsteɪt/US
Etymology
From inter- + state, originally as an adjective only; the noun is by (ellipsis) from interstate highway. The noun also serves adjectivally as a (noun adjunct) in such collocations as interstate construction and interstate rest stops.
Definitions
Of, or relating to two or more states.
- interstate commerce
- interstate reciprocity
- The difference between intrastate and interstate prison transfers, Justice Blackmun said, "is a matter of degree, not of kind," while confinement in a mental hospital is qualitatively different than an ordinary prison sentence.
Crossing states (usually provincial state, but also e.g. multinational sense).
- The truck driver drove interstate to unload.
A freeway that is part of the Interstate Highway System.
- The speed-limit increase would not apply to Delaware, where the interstates are all near populated areas.
- There was no reason to pull off the interstate and drive twenty miles down a bumpy local road, just to stay in a dilapidated no-tell motel.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for interstate. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA