Cedar Rapids
- proper noun
- /ˈsiːdər ˈræpɪdz/
- PHOTO (BLACK & WHITE): Brush and other woody materials are ground prior to composting by Bluestem Solid Waste Agency in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
- Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Examples
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He wrote one aboard a train bound for Cedar Rapids, Iowa; he seems to have called it Michigan, but the content makes it almost certainly Iowa.
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"A guy walking down my street, he had the forms, so I filled them out," said Shawn Rippey, 40, of Cedar Rapids.
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"Obama," said Heather Cline, 21, a Cedar Rapids day care assistant also taking a bus to work.
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A detailed report on operations at the facility and end product uses will be given by Baker at the BioCycle Midwest Conference in Cedar Rapids on October 25, 26, and 27, 1999.
Academic text (1999) -
"There are things I don't like about both of them," said Jeremy Hunt, 31, of Cedar Rapids, as he pushed a wheelbarrow around a construction zone at the University of Iowa in Iowa City.
Blog text (34) -
The composting program in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, adjusts to an increase in feedstock by changing its processing equipment, pile dimensions, and bagging system.
Academic text (1999) -
The city of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, had constructed a $1 million composting site and began processing materials in October 1990 to prepare for a 1991 ban on landfilling yard trimmings.
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On Feb. 8, 1991, Cara Clausen, who was then single, gave birth to a baby girl in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
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It's the levees that failed in Cedar Rapids and New Orleans.
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Also, Tuesday, the president will visit Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where he is scheduled to meet with a family that would benefit from the tax-cut extension.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Cedar + rapid
The phrase is clearly compositional in that it combines 'cedar' and 'rapids', so a learner who knows both words can infer it refers to a geographic place characterized by rapids and cedars. However, the conventionalized status as the proper name of a specific city (and the fact that learners may not deduce it is a city rather than a natural feature) is not fully predictable from the parts, so it is only partially transparent.
Etymology
Cedar Rapids comes from the nearby Cedar trees and the fast water called rapids on the Cedar River, where early settlers saw many cedar trees and rushing water. That's why the name refers to the 'river' and now names the 'city'.