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English

Wikipedia has an article on: State (disambiguation)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

Wikipedia has an article on: State

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.
  11. (obsolete) A great person, a dignitary; a lord or prince.
    • 1644, John Milton, Aeropagitica:
      They who to States and Governours of the Commonwealth direct their Speech [...]; I suppose them as at the beginning of no meane endeavour, not a little alter'd and mov'd inwardly in their mindes [...].

Derived terms

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Verb

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
make known
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  • Arabic: قرر (qárara)

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Italian

Verb

state

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

Anagrams

Latin

Verb

stāte

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of stō
    1. "stand ye"
    2. "stay ye, remain ye"

Participle

state

  1. vocative masculine singular of status

 

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State commonly refers to either the present state of a system or entity, or to a governed entity or sub-entity, such as a nation or province.
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