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State

noun
1.
The territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation.  Synonym: province.
2.
The way something is with respect to its main attributes.  "His state of health" , "In a weak financial state"
3.
The group of people comprising the government of a sovereign state.
4.
A politically organized body of people under a single government.  Synonyms: body politic, commonwealth, country, land, nation, res publica.  "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).  Synonym: state of matter.
6.
A state of depression or agitation.
7.
The territory occupied by a nation.  Synonyms: country, land.  "He visited several European countries"
8.
The federal department in the United States that sets and maintains foreign policies.  Synonyms: Department of State, DoS, State Department, United States Department of State.
verb
(past & past part. stated; pres. part. stating)
1.
Express in words.  Synonyms: say, tell.  "Tell me what is bothering you" , "State your opinion" , "State your name"
2.
Put before.  Synonyms: posit, put forward, submit.
3.
Indicate through a symbol, formula, etc..  Synonym: express.



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"State" Quotes from Famous Books



... division of labour, and apart from division of labour certain great work can never be done. To do away with such division, supposing an impossibility to be possible, would simply mean reversion to the state of the primitive savage. But we have no call to attempt the abolition of even the minutest division of labour. What is necessary is to understand ...
— The Healthy Life, Vol. V, Nos. 24-28 - The Independent Health Magazine • Various
... by its religion and the culture growing out of it, a homogeneous state. Not only, however, did the legends of the Church find access to the people everywhere, but the stories imported from the Orient were equally popular and wide-spread. The absence of other works of entertainment and the monotonous character of the legends increased the popularity ...
— Italian Popular Tales • Thomas Frederick Crane
... member of the committee. It so happened that ten of the nineteen lawyers in the Senate were on the side of reform as against machine policies, eight generally voted with the machine, while the nineteenth gave evidence of being in a state of chronic doubt. This gave the reform element a majority of the Senate Judiciary Committee. But President Porter had the naming of the chairman of the committee, and the order of the rank of its members. The Lieutenant-Governor's fine discrimination is ...
— Story of the Session of the California Legislature of 1909 • Franklin Hichborn
... pray that it be forwarded to Andrew Bird, in the town of Bloomsbury, State of New York, U. S. A. In my balloon I was carried away by a sudden storm while crossing the Isthmus of Panama. As near as I can calculate I was swept some three hundred miles, more or less, in a south-easterly direction, much of ...
— The Aeroplane Boys on the Wing - Aeroplane Chums in the Tropics • John Luther Langworthy
... greatly changed Pelle's ideas on this subject. On the first few days he arrived in a state of anxious expectation, and all his courage forsook him as he crossed the threshold of the school. For the first time in his life he felt that he was good for nothing. Trembling with awe, he opened his perceptions to this new and unfamiliar thing that was to unveil for him all the mysteries ...
— Pelle the Conqueror, Complete • Martin Andersen Nexo


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