state
verb
- to convey (a piece of information, to some other entity)
noun
- A condition; a set of circumstances applying at any given time.
- High social standing or circumstance
- A polity
- (mathematics, stochastic processes) An element of the range of the random variables that define a random process
- (grammar, semantics) The lexical aspect (aktionsart) of verbs or predicates that do not change over time
- abstract term that denotes the presence of stable values of a set of variables of an object
- first-level administrative division in several countries
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /steɪt/
adj
Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- Proto-Italic *status Latin statuslbor. Old French estatbor. Middle English stat English state From Middle English stat (as a noun); adopted c. 1200 from both Old French estat and Latin stātus (“manner of standing, attitude, position, carriage, manner, dress, apparel; and other senses”), from stāre (“to stand”). Doublet of estate and status. The sense of "polity" develops in the 14th century. Compare French être, Greek στέω (stéo), Italian stare, Portuguese estar, Romanian sta, and Spanish estar. The verb is first attested around the beginning of the 16th century. Related to English stand.
- Stately.
“The ſhepheardes ſwayne you cannot well ken, / But it be by his pride, from other men: / They looken bigge as Bulles, that bene bate, / And bearen the cragge ſo ſtiffe and ſo ſtate, / As Cocke on his dunghill, crowing cranck.”
name
Etymology: Capitalization of state.
- State University, as the shortened form of a public university name.
“State begins fouling and UCLA misses a couple of front-end free throws on one-and-ones.”
“The Pack’s average seed in the mountain of NCAA tourney predictions out there is 10, and even the most optimistic takes on State’s situation have the team as an eight-seed.”
noun
Etymology: Capitalization of state.
- A political entity that regulates society and the population within a definite territory.
- The current governing political entity in which the speaker lives.
verb
Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- Proto-Italic *status Latin statuslbor. Old French estatbor. Middle English stat English state From Middle English stat (as a noun); adopted c. 1200 from both Old French estat and Latin stātus (“manner of standing, attitude, position, carriage, manner, dress, apparel; and other senses”), from stāre (“to stand”). Doublet of estate and status. The sense of "polity" develops in the 14th century. Compare French être, Greek στέω (stéo), Italian stare, Portuguese estar, Romanian sta, and Spanish estar. The verb is first attested around the beginning of the 16th century. Related to English stand.
- To declare to be a fact.
“He stated that he was willing to help.”
“Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations. It is easily earned repetition to state that Josephine St. Auban's was a presence not to be concealed.”
- To make known.
“State your intentions.”