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English

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Etymology

From Latin status (“‘manner of standing, attitude, position, carriage, manner, dress, apparel; and other senses’”) < stare (“‘to stand’”).

Pronunciation

Noun

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Wikipedia state (plural states)

  1. Any sovereign polity. A government.
    • 20C, Albert Einstein, as quoted by Virgil Henshaw in Albert Einstein: Philosopher Scientist (1949)
      Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.
  2. A political division of a federation retaining a degree of autonomy, for example one of the fifty United States. See also Province.
  3. A condition.
    A state of being.
    A state of emergency.
  4. Pomp, ceremony, or dignity.
    The President's body will lie in state at the Capitol.
  5. (computing) The stable condition of a processor during a particular clock cycle.
    In the fetch state, the address of the next instruction is placed on the address bus.
  6. (computing) The set of all parameters relevant to a computation.
    The state here includes a set containing all names seen so far.
  7. (computing) The values of all parameters at some point in a computation.
    A debugger can show the state of a program at any breakpoint.
  8. (anthropology) A society larger than a tribe. A society large enough to form a state in the sense of a government.
  9. (sciences) The physical property of matter as solid, liquid, gas or plasma
  10. (mathematics, stochastic processes) an element of the range of the random variables that define a random process.

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Verb

to state (third-person singular simple present states, present participle stating, simple past and past participle stated)

  1. (transitive) To declare to be a fact.
    He stated that he was willing to help.
  2. (transitive) To make known.
    State your intentions.

Translations

declare to be a fact
  • Catalan: declarar ca(ca)
  • Chinese:
    Mandarin: 表示 cmn(cmn) (biǎoshì), 聲明 cmn(cmn), 声明 cmn(cmn) (shēngmíng), 規定 cmn(cmn), 规定 cmn(cmn) (guīdìng)
  • Dutch: verklaren nl(nl)
  • Finnish: sanoa fi(fi), todeta fi(fi), ilmoittaa fi(fi)
  • French: déclarer fr(fr)
  • German: erklären de(de)
  • Greek: δηλώνω el(el) (dilóno), ανακοινώνω el(el) (anakoinóno), διακηρύσσω el(el) (diakirýsso)
  • Hebrew: הצהיר he(he) (hits'hír)
  • Hungarian: kijelent hu(hu), megállapít hu(hu)
  • Italian: dichiarare it(it)
  • Japanese: 述べる ja(ja) (noberu)
  • Portuguese: atestar pt(pt)
  • Russian: утверждать (utv'erždát') (impf.), заявлять (zajavl'át’) (impf.), заявить (zajavít’) (impf.)
  • Serbian: izjaviti sr(sr), izneti sr(sr)
  • Spanish: declarar es(es)
  • Swahili: hali sw(sw)
make known
  • Catalan: declarar ca(ca)
  • Chinese:
    Mandarin: 表示 cmn(cmn) (biǎoshì), 陳述 cmn(cmn), 陈述 cmn(cmn) (chénshù), 聲明 cmn(cmn), 声明 cmn(cmn) (shēngmíng)
  • Dutch: bekendmaken nl(nl)
  • Finnish: ilmoittaa fi(fi)
  • Greek: διατυπώνω el(el) (diatypóno), εκθέτω el(el) (ekthéto)
  • Hungarian: közöl hu(hu)
  • Italian: dichiarare it(it), esporre it(it)
  • Japanese: 述べる ja(ja) (noberu)
  • Portuguese: declarar pt(pt)
  • Russian: объявлять (objavl'át’) (impf.), объявить (objavít’) (impf.)
  • Swahili: hali sw(sw)
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  • Arabic: قرر (qárara)

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Verb

state

  1. second person plural indicative present tense of stare
  2. second person plural imperative of stare

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