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From Latin status (“‘manner of standing, attitude, position, carriage, manner, dress, apparel; and other senses’”) < stare (“‘to stand’”).
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Noun
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state (plural states)
- 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.
- 20C, Albert Einstein, as quoted by Virgil Henshaw in Albert Einstein: Philosopher Scientist (1949)
- A political division of a federation retaining a degree of autonomy, for example one of the fifty United States. See also Province.
- A condition.
- A state of being.
- A state of emergency.
- Pomp, ceremony, or dignity.
- The President's body will lie in state at the Capitol.
- (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.
- (computing) The set of all parameters relevant to a computation.
- The state here includes a set containing all names seen so far.
- (computing) The values of all parameters at some point in a computation.
- A debugger can show the state of a program at any breakpoint.
- (anthropology) A society larger than a tribe. A society large enough to form a state in the sense of a government.
- (sciences) The physical property of matter as solid, liquid, gas or plasma
Derived terms
- buffer state
- head of state
- state of affairs
- state of emergency
- statehood
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Verb
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Infinitive to state |
Third person singular states |
Simple past stated |
Past participle stated |
Present participle stating |
to state (third-person singular simple present states, present participle stating, simple past and past participle stated)
- (transitive) To declare to be a fact.
- He stated that he was willing to help.
- (transitive) To make known.
- State your intentions.
Translations
to declare to be a fact
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External links
- state in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- state in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
Italian
Verb
state
- second person plural indicative present tense of stare
- second person plural imperative of stare
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