English noun: state |
1. | state (location) the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation |
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| Samples | His state is in the deep south.
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| Synonyms | province |
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| Broader (hypernym) | administrative district, administrative division, territorial division |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | American state, Australian state, Canadian province, commonwealth, eparchy, Italian region, Soviet Socialist Republic |
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| Instance hyponym | Abkhaz, Abkhazia, Adzhar, Adzharia, Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Bavaria, Bihar, Bosnia, Buganda, Campeche, Cape Colony, Cape of Good Hope, Cape of Good Hope Province, Cape Province, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Free State, Friesland, Gansu, Gansu province, Goa, Guangdong, Guangdong province, Gujarat, Gujerat, Hebei, Hebei province, Hopeh, Hopei, Hunan, Hunan province, Indonesian Borneo, Inner Mongolia, Kalimantan, Kansu, Karnataka, Kosovo, Kwangtung, Lower Saxony, Madras, Manipur, Mysore, Nei Monggol, Orange Free State, Orissa, Quintana Roo, Sichuan, Sinkiang, Szechuan, Szechwan, Szechwan province, Tabasco, Tamil Nadu, Tirol, Transvaal, Tyrol, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Xinjiang, Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, Yucatan, Yunnan, Yunnan province |
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| Member meronym | country, land, state |
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2. | state the way something is with respect to its main attributes |
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| Samples | The current state of knowledge. His state of health. In a weak financial state.
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| Broader (hypernym) | attribute |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | action, activeness, activity, agency, annulment, antagonism, being, beingness, cleavage, condition, condition, conditionality, conflict, damnation, dead letter, death, death, degree, delegacy, dependance, dependence, dependency, destruction, disorder, dystopia, employ, employment, end, enlargement, enmity, eternal damnation, existence, feeling, flawlessness, flux, forthcomingness, freedom, grace, ground state, heterozygosity, homozygosity, hostility, illumination, immatureness, immaturity, imminence, imminency, imminentness, impendence, impendency, imperfection, imperfectness, inaction, inactiveness, inactivity, integrity, isomerism, kalemia, level, lifelessness, matureness, maturity, medium, merchantability, motion, motionlessness, multivalence, multivalency, nationhood, natural state, ne plus ultra, neotony, non-issue, nonbeing, obligation, office, omnipotence, omniscience, order, ornamentation, ownership, paternity, perfection, plurality, point, polyvalence, polyvalence, polyvalency, polyvalency, position, power, preparation, preparedness, readiness, receivership, relationship, relationship, representation, revocation, saving grace, separation, situation, skillfulness, stage, state of affairs, state of flux, state of grace, state of nature, status, status, stillness, temporary state, tribalism, turgor, unemployment, unification, union, unity, utilization, utopia, wholeness, wild |
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3. | state (group) the group of people comprising the government of a sovereign state |
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| Samples | The state has lowered its income tax.
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| Broader (hypernym) | authorities, government, regime |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | Soviets, welfare state |
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4. | state (group) a politically organized body of people under a single government |
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| Samples | 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.
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| Synonyms | body politic, commonwealth, country, land, nation, res publica |
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| Broader (hypernym) | political entity, political unit |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | ally, city state, city-state, commonwealth country, developing country, Dominion, foreign country, great power, major power, power, Reich, renegade state, rogue nation, rogue state, sea power, superpower, suzerain, world power |
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| Instance hyponym | Eelam, Tamil Eelam |
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| Part holonym | estate, estate of the realm, the three estates |
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5. | state (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) |
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| Samples | The solid state of water is called ice.
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| Synonyms | state of matter |
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| Broader (hypernym) | chemical phenomenon |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | form, gas, gaseous state, liquid, liquid state, liquidity, liquidness, phase, plasma, solid, solid state, solidness |
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| Attribute | gaseous, liquid, solid |
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| Domain category | chemical science, chemistry |
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6. | state (state) a state of depression or agitation |
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| Samples | He was in such a state you just couldn't reason with him.
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| Broader (hypernym) | emotional state, spirit |
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| Domain usage | colloquialism |
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7. | state (location) the territory occupied by a nation |
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| Samples | He returned to the land of his birth. He visited several European countries.
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| Synonyms | country, land |
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| Broader (hypernym) | administrative district, administrative division, territorial division |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | African country, African nation, Asian country, Asian nation, banana republic, buffer country, buffer state, country of origin, European country, European nation, fatherland, homeland, kingdom, mother country, motherland, native land, North American country, North American nation, South American country, South American nation, sultanate, tax haven |
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| Instance hyponym | Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, Bahama Islands, Bahamas, Barbados, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Ceylon, Commonwealth of Australia, Commonwealth of Dominica, Commonwealth of the Bahamas, Comoros, Cuba, Cyprus, Democratic Republic of Sao Tome and Principe, Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Dutch East Indies, East Timor, Etruria, Federal Islamic Republic of the Comoros, Federated States of Micronesia, Federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis, Fiji, Friendly Islands, Grenada, Haiti, Independent State of Papua New Guinea, Independent State of Samoa, Indonesia, Israel, Jamaica, Kingdom of Tonga, Kiribati, Maldives, Malta, Marshall Islands, Mauritius, Micronesia, Nauru, New Hebrides, New Zealand, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Republic of Cape Verde, Republic of Cuba, Republic of Cyprus, Republic of Fiji, Republic of Haiti, Republic of Indonesia, Republic of Kiribati, Republic of Maldives, Republic of Malta, Republic of Mauritius, Republic of Nauru, Republic of Palau, Republic of Seychelles, Republic of the Marshall Islands, Republic of the Philippines, Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, Republic of Turkey, Republic of Vanuatu, Rus, Russia, Russia, Russian Federation, Saint Christopher-Nevis, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, Samoa i Sisifo, Sao Thome e Principe, Sao Tome and Principe, Sao Tome e Principe, Seychelles, Sion, Solomon Islands, Soviet Union, Sri Lanka, St. Christopher-Nevis, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Thomas and Principe, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, State of Israel, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, TT, TT, Turkey, Turkmen, Turkmenia, Turkmenistan, Turkomen, Tuvalu, Ukraine, Ukrayina, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Upper Volta, USSR, Vanuatu, Western Samoa, Yisrael, Zion |
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| Part holonym | demesne, domain, land, midland |
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| Member holonym | department, province, state |
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8. | State (group) the federal department in the United States that sets and maintains foreign policies |
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| Samples | The Department of State was created in 1789.
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| Synonyms | Department of State, DoS, State Department, United States Department of State |
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| Broader (hypernym) | executive department |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | Foggy Bottom |
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| Part holonym | Bureau of Diplomatic Security, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, DS, Foreign Service, INR |
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English verb: state |
1. | state (communication) express in words |
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| Samples | He said that he wanted to marry her. Tell me what is bothering you. State your opinion. State your name.
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| Examples | They state that there was a traffic accident |
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| Synonyms | say, tell |
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| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something. Something ----s something. Somebody ----s that CLAUSE |
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| Broader (hypernym) | express, give tongue to, utter, verbalise, verbalize |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | add, announce, answer, append, articulate, declare, declare, declare, enunciate, explain, get out, give, introduce, lay out, mention, misstate, note, observe, precede, preface, premise, present, remark, reply, represent, respond, sum, sum up, summarise, summarize, supply, vocalise, vocalize |
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| Verb group | say |
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2. | state (communication) put before |
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| Samples | I submit to you that the accused is guilty.
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| Synonyms | posit, put forward, submit |
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| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something. Somebody ----s something to somebody |
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| Broader (hypernym) | advise, propose, suggest |
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3. | state (communication) indicate through a symbol, formula, etc. |
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| Samples | Can you express this distance in kilometers?.
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| Synonyms | express |
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| Pattern of use | Something ----s something. Somebody ----s something PP |
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| Broader (hypernym) | denote, refer |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | vote, vote |
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