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state       [steyt] Pronunciation Key, noun, adjective, verb, stat·ed, stat·ing.
–noun
1.the condition of a person or thing, as with respect to circumstances or attributes: a state of health.
2.the condition of matter with respect to structure, form, constitution, phase, or the like: water in a gaseous state.
3.status, rank, or position in life; station: He dresses in a manner befitting his state.
4.the style of living befitting a person of wealth and high rank: to travel in state.
5.a particular condition of mind or feeling: to be in an excited state.
6.an abnormally tense, nervous, or perturbed condition: He's been in a state since hearing about his brother's death.
7.a politically unified people occupying a definite territory; nation.
8.the territory, or one of the territories, of a government.
9.(sometimes initial capital letter) any of the bodies politic which together make up a federal union, as in the United States of America.
10.the body politic as organized for civil rule and government (distinguished from church).
11.the operations or activities of a central civil government: affairs of state.
12.(initial capital letter) Also called State Department. Informal. the Department of State.
13.Printing. a set of copies of an edition of a publication which differ from others of the same printing because of additions, corrections, or transpositions made during printing or at any time before publication.
14.the States, Informal. the United States (usually used outside its borders): After a year's study in Spain, he returned to the States.
–adjective
15.of or pertaining to the central civil government or authority.
16.made, maintained, or chartered by or under the authority of one of the commonwealths that make up a federal union: a state highway; a state bank.
17.characterized by, attended with, or involving ceremony: a state dinner.
18.used on or reserved for occasions of ceremony.
–verb (used with object)
19.to declare definitely or specifically: She stated her position on the case.
20.to set forth formally in speech or writing: to state a hypothesis.
21.to set forth in proper or definite form: to state a problem.
22.to say.
23.to fix or settle, as by authority.
—Idiom
24.lie in state, (of a corpse) to be exhibited publicly with honors before burial: The president's body lay in state for two days.
[Origin: 1175–1225; ME stat (n.), partly aph. var. of estat estate, partly < L status condition (see status); in defs. 7–11 < L status (rérum) state (of things) or status (reī pūblicae) state (of the republic)]

—Related forms
stat·a·ble, state·a·ble, adjective

—Synonyms 1. State, condition, situation, status are terms for existing circumstances or surroundings. State is the general word, often with no concrete implications or material relationships: the present state of affairs. Condition carries an implication of a relationship to causes and circumstances: The conditions made flying impossible. Situation suggests an arrangement of circumstances, related to one another and to the character of a person: He was master of the situation. Status carries official or legal implications; it suggests a complete picture of interrelated circumstances as having to do with rank, position, standing, a stage reached in progress, etc.: the status of negotiations. 3. standing. 17. stately, ceremonial, imposing, dignified. 19. aver, assert, asseverate, affirm. See maintain. 23. determine.
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state       (stāt)  Pronunciation Key 
n.  
  1. A condition or mode of being, as with regard to circumstances: a state of confusion.
  2. A condition of being in a stage or form, as of structure, growth, or development: the fetal state.
  3. A mental or emotional condition: in a manic state.
  4. Informal A condition of excitement or distress.
  5. Physics The condition of a physical system with regard to phase, form, composition, or structure: Ice is the solid state of water.
  6. Social position or rank.
  7. Ceremony; pomp: foreign leaders dining in state at the White House.
    1. The supreme public power within a sovereign political entity.
    2. The sphere of supreme civil power within a given polity: matters of state.
  9. A specific mode of government: the socialist state.
  10. A body politic, especially one constituting a nation: the states of Eastern Europe.
  11. One of the more or less internally autonomous territorial and political units composing a federation under a sovereign government: the 48 contiguous states of the Union.

adj.  
  1. Of or relating to a body politic or to an internally autonomous territorial or political unit constituting a federation under one government: a monarch dealing with state matters; the department that handles state security.
  2. Owned and operated by a state: state universities.

tr.v.   stat·ed, stat·ing, states
To set forth in words; declare.


[Middle English, from Old French estat, from Latin status; see stā- in Indo-European roots.]

stat'a·ble, state'a·ble adj.
Synonyms: These nouns denote the mode of being or form of existence of a person or thing: an old factory in a state of disrepair; a jogger in healthy condition; a police officer responding to a dangerous situation; the uncertain status of the peace negotiations.

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state  (n.1)
c.1225, "circumstances, temporary attributes of a person or thing, conditions," from L. status "manner of standing, position, condition," noun of action from pp. stem of stare "to stand" from PIE base *sta- "to stand" (see stet). Some M.E. senses are via O.Fr. estat (Fr. état; see estate). The L. word was adopted into other modern Gmc. languages (e.g. Ger., Du. staat) but chiefly in the political senses only. Meaning "physical condition as regards form or structure" is attested from c.1290. Meaning "mental or emotional condition" is attested from 1538 (phrase state of mind first attested 1749); colloquial sense of "agitated or perturbed state" is from 1837.
"He shall from time to time give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union, and recommend to their Consideration such Measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient." [U.S. Constitution, Article II, Section iii]

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state  (v.)
c.1590, "to set in a position," from state (n.1); the sense of "declare in words" is first attested 1647, from the notion of "placing" something on the record. Statement is attested from 1775.

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state  (n.2)
"political organization of a country, supreme civil power, government," 1538, from state (n.1); this sense grew out of the meaning "condition of a country" with regard to government, prosperity, etc. (c.1290), from L. phrases such as status rei publicæ "condition of the republic." Often in phrase church and state, which is attested from 1589. The sense of "semi-independent political entity under a federal authority" (as in the United States of America) is from 1856; the British North American colonies occasionally were called states as far back as 1634. The states has been short for "the United States of America" since 1777; hence stateside (1944), World War II U.S. military slang. State rights in U.S. political sense is attested from 1798; form states rights is first recorded 1858. Statesman is from 1592.

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state

noun
1. the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation; "his state is in the deep south" 
2. the way something is with respect to its main attributes; "the current state of knowledge"; "his state of health"; "in a weak financial state" 
3. the group of people comprising the government of a sovereign state; "the state has lowered its income tax" 
4. a politically organized body of people under a single government; "the state has elected a new president"; "African nations"; "students who had come to the nation's capitol"; "the country's largest manufacturer"; "an industrialized land" 
5. (chemistry) the three traditional states of matter are solids (fixed shape and volume) and liquids (fixed volume and shaped by the container) and gases (filling the container); "the solid state of water is called ice" [syn: state of matter] 
6. a state of depression or agitation; "he was in such a state you just couldn't reason with him" 
7. the territory occupied by a nation; "he returned to the land of his birth"; "he visited several European countries" [syn: country] 
8. the federal department in the United States that sets and maintains foreign policies; "the Department of State was created in 1789" [syn: Department of State] 

verb
1. express in words; "He said that he wanted to marry her"; "tell me what is bothering you"; "state your opinion"; "state your name" 
2. put before; "I submit to you that the accused is guilty" [syn: submit] 
3. indicate through a symbol, formula, etc.; "Can you express this distance in kilometers?" [syn: express] 

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state

In addition to the idiom beginning with state, also see in a lather (state); in state; ship of state.


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state (stāt)
n.
A condition or situation; status.

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Main Entry: state
Pronunciation: 'stAt
Function: noun
: mode or condition of being: as a : condition of mind or temperament state> b : a condition or stage in the physical being of something state of water>

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Main Entry: state
Function: noun
often attrib 1 a : a politically organized body of people usually occupying a definite territory; especially :one that is sovereign b : the political organization that has supreme civil authority and political power and serves as the basis of government —see also compelling stateinterest at SEPARATION OF CHURCHAND STATE">INTEREST 3a, SEPARATION OF CHURCHAND STATE c : a government or politically organized society having a particular character <a police state>
2 : the operations or concerns of thegovernment of a country : the sphere of administration and supreme political power of a country (as in international relations) <secrets of state> <affairs ofstate>
3 a : one of the constituent units of a nation having a federal government; specifically : one of the fifty such units comprising the great part of theU.S. —see also STATE LAW b : the territory of a state

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state storage, architecture, jargon, theory
How something is; its configuration, attributes, condition, or information content. The state of a system is usually temporary (i.e. it changes with time) and volatile (i.e. it will be lost or reset to some initial state if the system is switched off).
A state may be considered to be a point in some space of all possible states. A simple example is a light, which is either on or off. A complex example is the electrical activation in a human brain while solving a problem.
In computing and related fields, states, as in the light example, are often modelled as being discrete (rather than continuous) and the transition from one state to another is considered to be instantaneous. Another (related) property of a system is the number of possible states it may exhibit. This may be finite or infinite. A common model for a system with a finite number of discrete state is a finite state machine.
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state

n.
1. Condition, situation. "What's the state of your latest hack?" "It's winning away." "The system tried to read and write the disk simultaneously and got into a totally wedged state." The standard question "What's your state?" means "What are you doing?" or "What are you about to do?" Typical answers are "about to gronk out", or "hungry". Another standard question is "What's the state of the world?", meaning "What's new?" or "What's going on?". The more terse and humorous way of asking these questions would be "State-p?". Another way of phrasing the first question under sense 1 would be "state-p latest hack?".
2. Information being maintained in non-permanent memory (electronic or human).

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State College, PA (borough, FIPS 73808) Location: 40.79055 N, 77.85792 W
Population (1990): 38923 (11623 housing units)
Area: 11.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 16801, 16803

State University, AR Zip code(s): 72467

State Road, NC Zip code(s): 28676

State Center, IA (city, FIPS 75135) Location: 42.01530 N, 93.16539 W
Population (1990): 1248 (547 housing units)
Area: 2.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 50247

State College, GA Zip code(s): 31404

State Line, MS (town, FIPS 70320) Location: 31.43573 N, 88.47462 W
Population (1990): 395 (164 housing units)
Area: 10.3 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 39362

State Line, ID (city, FIPS 77050) Location: 47.70615 N, 117.03512 W
Population (1990): 26 (14 housing units)
Area: 0.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

Ball State Unive, IN Zip code(s): 47306

State Line City, IN (town, FIPS 72764) Location: 40.19720 N, 87.52725 W
Population (1990): 182 (74 housing units)
Area: 0.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

California State, CA Zip code(s): 91330

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state

Ar`gil*la"ceous\, a. [L. argillaceus, fr. argilla.] Of the nature of clay; consisting of, or containing, argil or clay; clayey.

Argillaceous sandstone (Geol.), a sandstone containing much clay.

Argillaceous iron ore, the clay ironstone.

Argillaceous schist or state. See Argillite.

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Con*di"tion\, n. [F., fr. L. conditio (better condicio) agreement, compact, condition; con- + a root signifying to show, point out, akin to dicere to say, dicare to proclaim, dedicate. See Teach, Token.]

1. Mode or state of being; state or situation with regard to external circumstances or influences, or to physical or mental integrity, health, strength, etc.; predicament; rank; position, estate.

I am in my condition A prince, Miranda; I do think, a king. --Shak.

And O, what man's condition can be worse Than his whom plenty starves and blessings curse? --Cowley.

The new conditions of life. --Darwin.

2. Essential quality; property; attribute.

It seemed to us a condition and property of divine powers and beings to be hidden and unseen to others. --Bacon.

3. Temperament; disposition; character. [Obs.]

The condition of a saint and the complexion of a devil. --Shak.

4. That which must exist as the occasion or concomitant of something else; that which is requisite in order that something else should take effect; an essential qualification; stipulation; terms specified.

I had as lief take her dowry with this condition, to be whipped at the high cross every morning. --Shak.

Many are apt to believe remission of sins, but they believe it without the condition of repentance. --Jer. Taylor.

5. (Law) A clause in a contract, or agreement, which has for its object to suspend, to defeat, or in some way to modify, the principal obligation; or, in case of a will, to suspend, revoke, or modify a devise or bequest. It is also the case of a future uncertain event, which may or may not happen, and on the occurrence or non-occurrence of which, the accomplishment, recission, or modification of an obligation or testamentary disposition is made to depend. --Blount. Tomlins. Bouvier. Wharton.

Equation of condition. (Math.) See under Equation.

On or Upon condition (that), used for if in introducing conditional sentences. "Upon condition thou wilt swear to pay him tribute . . . thou shalt be placed as viceroy under him." --Shak.

Conditions of sale, the terms on which it is proposed to sell property by auction; also, the instrument containing or expressing these terms.

Syn: State; situation; circumstances; station; case; mode; plight; predicament; stipulation; qualification; requisite; article; provision; arrangement. See State.

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Con"struct\, a. Formed by, or relating to, construction, interpretation, or inference.

Construct form or state (Heb. Gram.), that of a noun used before another which has the genitive relation to it.

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State

Es*tate"\, n. [OF. estat, F. ['e]tat, L. status, fr. stare to stand. See Stand, and cf. State.]

1. Settled condition or form of existence; state; condition or circumstances of life or of any person; situation. "When I came to man's estate." --Shak.

Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate. --Romans xii. 16.

2. Social standing or rank; quality; dignity.

God hath imprinted his authority in several parts, upon several estates of men. --Jer. Taylor.

3. A person of high rank. [Obs.]

She's a duchess, a great estate. --Latimer.

Herod on his birthday made a supper to his lords, high captains, and chief estates of Galilee. --Mark vi. 21.

4. A property which a person possesses; a fortune; possessions, esp. property in land; also, property of all kinds which a person leaves to be divided at his death.

See what a vast estate he left his son. --Dryden.

5. The state; the general body politic; the common-wealth; the general interest; state affairs. [Obs.]

I call matters of estate not only the parts of sovereignty, but whatsoever . . . concerneth manifestly any great portion of people. --Bacon.

6. pl. The great classes or orders of a community or state (as the clergy, the nobility, and the commonalty of England) or their representatives who administer the government; as, the estates of the realm (England), which are (1) the lords spiritual, (2) the lords temporal, (3) the commons.

7. (Law) The degree, quality, nature, and extent of one's interest in, or ownership of, lands, tenements, etc.; as, an estate for life, for years, at will, etc. --Abbott.

The fourth estate, a name often given to the public press.

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