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state
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Verb
  • indicate through a symbol, formula, etc.
    • Can you express this distance in kilometers?
  • put before
    • I submit to you that the accused is guilty
  • express in words
    • He said that he wanted to marry her
    • tell me what is bothering you
    • state your opinion
    • state your name
Noun
  • the federal department in the United States that sets and maintains foreign policies
    • the Department of State was created in 1789
  • the territory occupied by a nation
    • he returned to the land of his birth
    • he visited several European countries
  • a state of depression or agitation
    • he was in such a state you just couldn't reason with him
  • (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
  • 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
  • the group of people comprising the government of a sovereign state
    • the state has lowered its income tax
  • the way something is with respect to its main attributes
    • the current state of knowledge
    • his state of health
    • in a weak financial state
  • the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation
    • his state is in the deep south
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