state

noun

1. A condition; a set of circumstances applying at any given time.

   “a state of being”

   “a state of emergency”

   “Relate what Latium was, her ancient Kings : / Declare the paſt, and preſent State of things, / When firſt the Trojan Fleet Auſonia ſought ; / And how the Rivals lov’d, and how they fought.”

   “I corralled the judge, and we started off across the fields, in no very mild state of fear of that gentleman's wife, whose vigilance was seldom relaxed.”

2. A condition; a set of circumstances applying at any given time.

   “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. (colloquial, singular)A condition; a set of circumstances applying at any given time.

   “absolute state”

   “in a state”

   “in a bit of a state”

   “Who the fuck undressed me? Try tracing back. It's now Sunday. Yesterday was Saturday. The semi-final at Hampden. I had got myself into some fucking state before and after the match.”

   “An absolute state of a visit: what the Trump and Windsor snapshots tell us [title]”

4. A condition; a set of circumstances applying at any given time.

   “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.

   “The state here includes a set containing all names seen so far.”

6. A condition; a set of circumstances applying at any given time.

   “A debugger can show the state of a program at any breakpoint.”

7. A condition; a set of circumstances applying at any given time.
8. (obsolete)A condition; a set of circumstances applying at any given time.
9. High social standing or circumstance.

   “in state”

   “The President's body will lie in state at the Capitol.”

10. High social standing or circumstance.

    “And leſned by that ſmall, God I beſeech him, / Thy honor, ſtate, and ſeate, is due to me.”

11. High social standing or circumstance.

    “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.”

    “Can this imperious lord forget to reign, / Quit all his ſtate, deſcend, and ſerve again ?”

12. High social standing or circumstance.

    “[…]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.”

    “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. (obsolete)High social standing or circumstance.

    “We in the name of other Perſean ſtates, And commons of this mightie Monarchy, Preſent thee with the Emperiall Diadem.”

    “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. (obsolete)High social standing or circumstance.

    “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.”

    “Your ’State, my Lord, again is yours.”

15. A polity or community.

    “Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.”

16. A polity or community.

    “His alibi is that he was out of state the night of the murder.”

    “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.”

    “You do solemnly swear (or affirm, as the case may be) that you will support the constitution of the United States, and the constitution of the state of Connecticut, so long as you continue a citizen thereof; and that you will faithfully discharge, according to law, the duties of the office of […] to the best of your abilities.”

    “As Australia considers whether to allow states greater latitude in the indirect tax field, it must ask what it will do when (not if) it finally decides that the federal government should enact a modern general sales tax.”

    “The Central Lowlands is often referred to as the heart of America — and with good reason: If we look at the names of the eight states with populations of 10 million or more, this region has three of them, Illinois, Ohio, and Michigan, more than any one of the other five.”

17. (obsolete)A polity or community.

    “Well monarchies may own religion’s name, / But ſtates are atheiſts in their very frame.”

18. A polity or community.
19. An element of the range of the random variables that define a random process.
20. The lexical aspect (aktionsart) of verbs or predicates that do not change over time.

    “[…]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.”

    “The most basic Aktionsart distinction is between states and occurrences.”

21. A current governing polity, country, city-state, or community.
22. (often, with-definite-article)The current governing polity, country, city-state, or community under which the speaker lives.

verb

1. (transitive)To declare to be a fact.

   “He stated that he was willing to help.”

   “Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations. It is easily earned repetition to state that Josephine St. Auban's was a presence not to be concealed.”

   “A provision of law may not be construed as requiring a new grant to be awarded to a specified non-Federal Government entity unless that provision of law (1) specifically refers to this subsection; specifically identifies the particular non-Federal Government entity involved; and (3) specifically states that the award to that entity is required by such provision of law in contravention of the policy set forth in subsection (a).”

   “The species-preserving purposivity of higher organisms is no greater than that of the lowest forms of life, and Jakob von Uexküll was entirely justified in stating that all living organisms are equally well adapted to their environments.”

   “When Tony Greig, in a meaningful and provocative interview, asked Sarfaraz background of betting and match-fixing, the Pakistan "superbat" categorically stated that it should start with Asif Iqbal and Gavaskar who, according to him, were the "original fixers"..”

2. (transitive)To make known.

   “State your intentions.”

adj

1. (obsolete)Stately.

   “The ſhepheardes ſwayne you cannot well ken, / But it be by his pride, from other men: / They looken bigge as Bulles, that bene bate, / And bearen the cragge ſo ſtiffe and ſo ſtate, / As Cocke on his dunghill, crowing cranck.”

name

1. State University, as the shortened form of a public university name.

   “State begins fouling and UCLA misses a couple of front-end free throws on one-and-ones.”

   “The Pack’s average seed in the mountain of NCAA tourney predictions out there is 10, and even the most optimistic takes on State’s situation have the team as an eight-seed.”