Word: state Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Indo-European *stéh₂-tu-s ~ *sth₂-téw-s Proto-Italic *status Latin statuslbor. Old French estatbor. Middle English stat English state From Middle English stat (as a noun); adopted c. 1200 from both Old French estat and Latin stātus (“manner of standing, attitude, position, carriage, manner, dress, apparel; and other senses”), from stāre (“to stand”). Doublet of estate and status. The sense of "polity" develops in the 14th century. Compare French être, Greek στέω (stéo), Italian stare, Portuguese estar, Romanian sta, and Spanish estar. The verb is first attested around the beginning of the 16th century. Related to English stand. Pronunciation: /steɪt/ 1. A condition; a set of circumstances applying at any given time. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: a state of being Example: a state of emergency 2. A condition; a set of circumstances applying at any given time. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: States in which the energy has definite values are called stationary states of a system; they are described by wave functions Ψₙ which are the eigenfunctions of the Hamiltonian operator, i.e. which satisfy the equation ĤΨₙ = EₙΨₙ, where Eₙ are the eigenvalues of the energy. 3. A condition; a set of circumstances applying at any given time. Labels: colloquial, countable, singular, uncountable Example: absolute state Example: in a state 4. A condition; a set of circumstances applying at any given time. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: In the fetch state, the address of the next instruction is placed on the address bus. 5. A condition; a set of circumstances applying at any given time. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The state here includes a set containing all names seen so far. 6. A condition; a set of circumstances applying at any given time. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: A debugger can show the state of a program at any breakpoint. 7. A condition; a set of circumstances applying at any given time. Labels: countable, uncountable 8. A condition; a set of circumstances applying at any given time. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable 9. High social standing or circumstance. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: in state Example: The President's body will lie in state at the Capitol. 10. High social standing or circumstance. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: And leſned by that ſmall, God I beſeech him, / Thy honor, ſtate, and ſeate, is due to me. 11. High social standing or circumstance. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Firſt, in princely behaviour and geſture, teaching him how he ſhould keep of a kind of ſtate, and yet, with a modeſt ſenſe of his misfortunes. Example: Can this imperious lord forget to reign, / Quit all his ſtate, deſcend, and ſerve again ? 12. High social standing or circumstance. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: […]and from the dore / Of that Plutonia Hall, inviſible / Aſcended his high Throne, which under ſtate / Of richeſt texture ſpred, at th’ upper end / Was plac’t in regal luſtre. Example: He invented a way of coming into a Room backwards, which he ſaid ſhew’d more Humility, and leſs Affectation ; where other People ſtood, he ſat ; when he went to Court, he us’d to kick away the State, and ſit down by his Prince, Cheek by Choul[…] 13. High social standing or circumstance. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: We in the name of other Perſean ſtates, And commons of this mightie Monarchy, Preſent thee with the Emperiall Diadem. Example: They who to States and Governours of the Commonwealth direct their Speech, High Court of Parlament, or wanting ſuch acceſſe in a private condition, write that which they foreſee may advance the publick good ; I ſuppoſe them as at the beginning of no meane endeavour, not a little alter’d and mov’d inwardly in their mindes[…] 14. High social standing or circumstance. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: Their parties great, meanes good, the ſeaſon fit, / Their practice cloſe, their faith ſuſpected not, / Their ſtates far off, and they of wary wit : / Who, with large promiſes, ſo wooe the Scot / To aide their Cauſe, as he conſents to it ; / And glad was to diſturne that furious ſtreame / Of warre, on vs, that elſe had ſwallowed them. Example: Your ’State, my Lord, again is yours. 15. A polity or community. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it. 16. A polity or community. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: His alibi is that he was out of state the night of the murder. Example: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people. 17. A polity or community. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: Well monarchies may own religion’s name, / But ſtates are atheiſts in their very frame. 18. A polity or community. Labels: countable, uncountable 19. An element of the range of the random variables that define a random process. Labels: countable, uncountable 20. The lexical aspect (aktionsart) of verbs or predicates that do not change over time. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: […]distinctions among states of affairs are reflected to a striking degree in distinctions among Aktionsart types. That is, situations are expressed by state verbs or predicates, events by achievement verbs or predicates, and actions by activity verbs or predicates. Example: The most basic Aktionsart distinction is between states and occurrences.