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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.

Derived terms

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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)
The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Help:How to check translations.
Translations to be checked
  • 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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