State

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1 English

1.1 Noun

1.1.1 Translations

1.2 Transitive verb

2 Italian

2.1 Verb form
2.2 See also

English

Noun

state (plural: states)

Any sovereign nation.
A political division of a federation retaining a degree of autonomy, for example one of the fifty United States. See also Province.
A condition (example: a state of being)
(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.
(computing) The set of all parameters relevant to a computation.
The state here includes a set containing all names seen so far.
(computing) The values of all parameters at some point in a computation.
A debugger can show the state of a program at any breakpoint.

Translations

Dutch: staat f (1,2,3)
Finnish: valtio (1), maa (1), osavaltio (2), tila (3)
French: état m (1, 2, 3)
Italian: stato m (1, 2, 3)
Japanese: 国 (くに, kuni) (1), 州 (しゅう, shū) (2), 状態 (じょうたい, jōtai) (3)
Lithuanian: valstybė f (1); valstija f (2); būsena f (3), būklė f (3)
Spanish: estado m (1, 2, 3)
Swedish: stat c (1, 2); nation c, land n, rike n (1); tillstånd n (3)

Transitive verb

to state (states, stating, stated)

To declare to be a fact. (He stated that he was willing to help.)
To make known. (State your intentions.)

Italian

Verb form

state

(second-person plural indicative present tense of stare) (you) are, you're

1. state -- (the group of people comprising the government of a sovereign state; "the state has lowered its income tax").
2. state, province -- (the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation; "his state is in the deep south").
3. state, nation, country, land, commonwealth, res publica, body politic -- (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").
4. state -- (the way something is with respect to its main attributes; "the current state of knowledge"; "his state of health"; "in a weak financial state").
5. Department of State, State Department, State, DoS -- (the federal department in the UnitedStates that sets and maintains foreign policies; "the Department of State was created in 1789").
6. country, state, land -- (the territory occupied by a nation; "he returned to the land of his birth"; "he visited several European countries").
7. state -- (a state of depression or agitation; "he was in such a state you just couldn't reason with him").
8. state of matter, state -- ((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").

three

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

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