Engelsk substantiv: state |
| 1. | state (om sted) the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation |
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| Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | His state is in the deep south.
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| Ord med samme betydning (synonymer) | province |
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| Mindre spesifikke uttrykk | administrative district, administrative division, territorial division |
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| Mere spesifikke uttrykk | American state, Australian state, Canadian province, commonwealth, eparchy, Italian region, Soviet Socialist Republic |
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| Eksempler på mere spesifikke uttrykk | 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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| Tilhører disse overordnede uttrykkene | country, land, state |
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| 2. | state the way something is with respect to its main attributes |
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| Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | The current state of knowledge.
His state of health.
In a weak financial state.
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| Mindre spesifikke uttrykk | attribute |
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| Mere spesifikke uttrykk | 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 (om gruppe) the group of people comprising the government of a sovereign state |
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| Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | The state has lowered its income tax.
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| Mindre spesifikke uttrykk | authorities, government, regime |
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| Mere spesifikke uttrykk | Soviets, welfare state |
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| 4. | state (om gruppe) a politically organized body of people under a single government |
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| Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | 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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| Ord med samme betydning (synonymer) | body politic, commonwealth, country, land, nation, res publica |
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| Mindre spesifikke uttrykk | political entity, political unit |
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| Mere spesifikke uttrykk | 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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| Eksempler på mere spesifikke uttrykk | Eelam, Tamil Eelam |
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| Omfatter disse spesifikke uttrykk | estate, estate of the realm, the three estates |
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| 5. | state (om tilstand) (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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| Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | The solid state of water is called ice.
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| Ord med samme betydning (synonymer) | state of matter |
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| Mindre spesifikke uttrykk | chemical phenomenon |
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| Mere spesifikke uttrykk | form, gas, gaseous state, liquid, liquid state, liquidity, liquidness, phase, plasma, solid, solid state, solidness |
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| Kjennetegner disse uttrykkene | gaseous, liquid, solid |
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| Overordnet kategori | chemical science, chemistry |
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| 6. | state (om tilstand) a state of depression or agitation |
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| Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | He was in such a state you just couldn't reason with him.
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| Mindre spesifikke uttrykk | emotional state, spirit |
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| Overordnet anvendelse | colloquialism |
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| 7. | state (om sted) the territory occupied by a nation |
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| Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | He returned to the land of his birth.
He visited several European countries.
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| Ord med samme betydning (synonymer) | country, land |
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| Mindre spesifikke uttrykk | administrative district, administrative division, territorial division |
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| Mere spesifikke uttrykk | 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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| Eksempler på mere spesifikke uttrykk | 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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| Omfatter disse spesifikke uttrykk | demesne, domain, land, midland |
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| Tilhører disse spesifikke uttrykkene | department, province, state |
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| 8. | State (om gruppe) the federal department in the United States that sets and maintains foreign policies |
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| Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | The Department of State was created in 1789.
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| Ord med samme betydning (synonymer) | Department of State, DoS, State Department, United States Department of State |
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| Mindre spesifikke uttrykk | executive department |
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| Mere spesifikke uttrykk | Foggy Bottom |
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| Omfatter disse spesifikke uttrykk | Bureau of Diplomatic Security, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, DS, Foreign Service, INR |
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Engelsk verb: state |
| 1. | state (om kommunikasjon) express in words |
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| Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | He said that he wanted to marry her.
Tell me what is bothering you.
State your opinion.
State your name.
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| Eksempler på anvendelse | They state that there was a traffic accident |
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| Ord med samme betydning (synonymer) | say, tell |
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| Anvendelsesmønster | Somebody ----s something.
Something ----s something.
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE |
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| Mindre spesifikke uttrykk | express, give tongue to, utter, verbalise, verbalize |
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| Mere spesifikke uttrykk | 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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| Utsagnsord med lignende betydning | say |
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| 2. | state (om kommunikasjon) put before |
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| Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | I submit to you that the accused is guilty.
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| Ord med samme betydning (synonymer) | posit, put forward, submit |
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| Anvendelsesmønster | Somebody ----s something.
Somebody ----s something to somebody |
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| Mindre spesifikke uttrykk | advise, propose, suggest |
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| 3. | state (om kommunikasjon) indicate through a symbol, formula, etc. |
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| Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | Can you express this distance in kilometers?.
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| Ord med samme betydning (synonymer) | express |
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| Anvendelsesmønster | Something ----s something.
Somebody ----s something PP |
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| Mindre spesifikke uttrykk | denote, refer |
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| Mere spesifikke uttrykk | vote, vote |
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