What (who) is state - definition
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State
·noun Estate, possession.
II. State ·noun A person of high rank.
III. State ·adj Stately.
IV. State ·noun The principal persons in a government.
V. State ·noun Appearance of grandeur or dignity; pomp.
VI. State ·adj Belonging to the state, or body politic; public.
VII. State ·noun Rank; condition; quality; as, the state of honor.
VIII. State ·noun A statement; also, a document containing a statement.
IX. State ·noun A form of government which is not monarchial, as a republic.
X. State ·noun The circumstances or condition of a being or thing at any given time.
XI. State ·noun The bodies that constitute the legislature of a country; as, the States-general of Holland.
XII. State ·noun Condition of prosperity or grandeur; wealthy or prosperous circumstances; social importance.
XIV. State ·noun A chair with a canopy above it, often standing on a dais; a seat of dignity; also, the canopy itself.
XV. State ·noun A political body, or body politic; the whole body of people who are united one government, whatever may be the form of the government; a nation.
XVI. State ·noun Highest and stationary condition, as that of maturity between growth and decline, or as that of crisis between the increase and the abating of a disease; height; acme.
XVII. State ·vt To express the particulars of; to set down in detail or in gross; to represent fully in words; to Narrate; to Recite; as, to state the facts of a case, one's opinion, ·etc.
XVIII. State ·noun Any body of men united by profession, or constituting a community of a particular character; as, the civil and ecclesiastical states, or the lords spiritual and temporal and the commons, in Great Britain. ·cf. Estate, ·noun, 6.
XIX. State ·noun In the United States, one of the commonwealth, or bodies politic, the people of which make up the body of the nation, and which, under the national constitution, stands in certain specified relations with the national government, and are invested, as commonwealth, with full power in their several spheres over all matters not expressly inhibited.
state
(states, stating, stated)
Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English.
1.
You can refer to countries as states, particularly when you are discussing politics.
Some weeks ago I recommended to EU member states that we should have discussions with the Americans.
N-COUNT
2.
Some large countries such as the USA are divided into smaller areas called states.
Leaders of the Southern states are meeting in Louisville.
N-COUNT
3.
The USA is sometimes referred to as the States. (INFORMAL)
N-PROPER: the N
4.
You can refer to the government of a country as the state.
The state does not collect enough revenue to cover its expenditure...
N-SING: the N
5.
State industries or organizations are financed and organized by the government rather than private companies.
...reform of the state social-security system.
see state school
ADJ: ADJ n
6.
A state occasion is a formal one involving the head of a country.
The president of Czechoslovakia is in Washington on a state visit.
ADJ: ADJ n
7.
When you talk about the state of someone or something, you are referring to the condition they are in or what they are like at a particular time.
For the first few months after Daniel died, I was in a state of clinical depression...
Look at the state of my car!
N-COUNT: usu sing, with supp
8.
If you state something, you say or write it in a formal or definite way.
Clearly state your address and telephone number...
The police report stated that he was arrested for allegedly assaulting his wife...
'Our relationship is totally platonic,' she stated...
Buyers who do not apply within the stated period can lose their deposits.
VERB: V n, V that, V with quote, V-ed
9.
10.
If you say that someone is not in a fit state to do something, you mean that they are too upset or ill to do it.
When you left our place, you weren't in a fit state to drive.
PHRASE: V inflects, PHR to-inf
11.
If you are in a state or if you get into a state, you are very upset or nervous about something.
I was in a terrible state because nobody could understand why I had this illness...
PHRASE: v-link PHR
12.
If the dead body of an important person lies in state, it is publicly displayed for a few days before it is buried.
PHRASE: V inflects
state
I
n.
government
1) to establish, found, set up a state
2) to govern, rule a state
3) a buffer; client; garrison; independent; police; puppet; secular; sovereign; welfare state
4) a member state (the member states of the UN)
condition
5) a comatose; good; moribund; nervous; poor; transitional; unconscious; unspoiled; weakened state
6) one's financial; mental state
7) a gaseous; liquid; solid state
8) in a state (in a good state of repair; in a poor state of health; in a highly nervous state)
9) (misc.) the state of the art ('the level of development')
nervous condition
10) in a state (she was in quite a state)
pomp
11) to lie in state
one of the fifty American states
12) a dry state ('a state in which the sale of alcoholic beverages is prohibited')
13) (historical; US) a border; free; slave state
II
v.
1) to state clearly; emphatically
2) (B) we stated our views to them
3) (L; to) they stateed (to the reporters) that a summit conference would take place soon
4) (Q) she did not state how she expected to win the election
Pronunciation examples for state
1. states of awe, trance states, meditative states,
The Scientifie of Maximizing Human Potential _ Steven Kotler _ Talks at Google
2. prayer states, contemplative states, states of awe,
The Scientifie of Maximizing Human Potential _ Steven Kotler _ Talks at Google
3. psychedelic states, flow states--
The Scientifie of Maximizing Human Potential _ Steven Kotler _ Talks at Google
4. It's state by state.
The Dirt Cure _ Maya Shetreat-Klein _ Talks at Google
5. "Red State Blue State."
Colin Quinn _ Red State, Blue State _ Talks at Google
Examples of use of state
1. The paper has a fetching title: "Rich state, poor state, red state, blue state: What‘s the matter with Connecticut?" Dr.
2. Where state ownership retreated, state control advanced.
3. Britain‘s first atom plants were state built, state owned and state run.
4. I think it ought to be a state–to–state matter –– state function.
5. Soon after Bartels‘s paper came another by four academics, subtitled: Rich State, Poor State, Red State, Blue State, What‘s The Matter With Connecticut?.