state

Noun
  1. The territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation (synset 108671935)
    "his state is in the deep south"
    is a type of: administrative district, administrative division, territorial division - a district defined for administrative purposes
    subtypes:
    • commonwealth - the official name of some states in the United States (Massachusetts and Pennsylvania and Virginia and Kentucky) and associated territories (Puerto Rico)
    • eparchy - a province in ancient Greece
    • american state - one of the 50 states of the United States
    • italian region - Italy is divided into 20 regions for administrative purposes
    • canadian province - Canada is divided into 12 provinces for administrative purposes
    • australian state - one of the several states constituting Australia
    • malaysian state - one of the several states constituting Malaysia
    • soviet socialist republic - one of the states that formerly made up the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (1922-1991)
    specific instances:
    • guangdong, guangdong province, kwangtung - a province in southern China
    • gansu, gansu province, kansu - a province in north-central China; formerly part of the Silk Road to Turkistan and India and Persia
    • hebei, hebei province, hopeh, hopei - a populous province in northeastern China
    • hunan, hunan province - a province in southeastern central China between the Nan Ling mountains and the Chang Jiang; noted for its timber and valuable mineral resources
    • sichuan, szechuan, szechwan, szechwan province - a populous province of south central China
    • yunnan, yunnan province - a province of southern China
    • sinkiang, xinjiang, xinjiang uighur autonomous region - an autonomous province in far northwestern China on the border with Mongolia and Kazakhstan; the largest province in the People's Republic of China and the homeland of the Uighur people
    • inner mongolia, nei monggol - an autonomous region of northeastern China that was annexed by the Manchu rulers in 1635 and became an integral part of China in 1911
    • yucatan - a state of Mexico on the northern part of the Yucatan Peninsula
    • campeche - a Mexican state on the eastern part of the Gulf of Campeche
    • chihuahua - a state in northern Mexico; mostly high plateau
    • coahuila - a state in northern Mexico; mostly high plateau
    • quintana roo - a Mexican state on the eastern side of the Yucatan Peninsula
    • tabasco - a Mexican state on the Gulf of Campeche
    • lower saxony - a state in northwestern Germany
    • bavaria - a state in southern Germany famous for its beer; site of an automobile factory
    • kosovo - a Serbian province in southern Serbia and Montenegro populated predominantly by Albanians
    • bosnia - the northern part of Bosnia-Herzegovina
    • tirol, tyrol - a picturesque mountainous province of western Austria and northern Italy
    • assam - state in northeastern India
    • karnataka, mysore - state in southern India; formerly Mysore
    • manipur - state in northeastern India
    • sikkim - a state in northeastern India in the Himalaya Mountains between Nepal and Bhutan
    • andhra pradesh - a state of southeastern India on the Bay of Bengal
    • bihar - a state of northeastern India
    • goa - a state of southwestern India; a former Portuguese colony
    • gujarat, gujerat - an industrialized state in western India that includes parts of Bombay
    • madras, tamil nadu - a state in southeastern India on the Bay of Bengal (south of Andhra Pradesh); formerly Madras
    • uttar pradesh - a state in northern India
    • maharashtra - a state in west-central India
    • orissa - state in eastern India on the Bay of Bengal
    • west bengal - a state in eastern India
    • indonesian borneo, kalimantan - the part of Indonesia on the southern side of the island of Borneo
    • friesland - one of the northernmost provinces of the Netherlands
    • free state, orange free state - a province in central South Africa that was colonized by the Boers; named Free State in 1997
    • transvaal - a province of northeastern South Africa originally inhabited by Africans who spoke Bantu; colonized by the Boers
    • cape colony, cape of good hope province, cape province - a former province of southern South Africa that was settled by the Dutch in 1652 and ceded to Great Britain in 1814; in 1994 it was split into three new provinces of South Africa
    • cape of good hope - a province of western South Africa
    • abkhaz, abkhazia - an autonomous province of Georgia on the Black Sea; a strong independence movement has resulted in much instability
    • adzhar, adzharia - an autonomous province of Georgia on the Black Sea
    • buganda - a state of Uganda and site of a former Bantu kingdom
    belongs to: country, land, state - the territory occupied by a nation
    same as: province
  2. The way something is with respect to its main attributes (synset 100024900)
    "the current state of knowledge"; "his state of health"; "in a weak financial state"
    is a type of: attribute - an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of an entity
    subtypes:
  3. The group of people comprising the government of a sovereign state (synset 108195465)
    "the state has lowered its income tax"
    is a type of: authorities, government, regime - the organization that is the governing authority of a political unit
    subtypes:
    • soviets - the government of the Soviet Union
    • welfare state - a government that undertakes responsibility for the welfare of its citizens through programs in public health and public housing and pensions and unemployment compensation etc.
  4. A politically organized body of people under a single government (synset 108185877)
    "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"
    is a type of: political entity, political unit - a unit with political responsibilities
    subtypes:
    specific instances: eelam, tamil eelam - the independent state that the Tamil Tigers have fought for
    has: estate, estate of the realm, the three estates - a major social class or order of persons regarded collectively as part of the body politic of the country (especially in the United Kingdom) and formerly possessing distinct political rights
    same as: body politic, commonwealth, country, land, nation, res publica
  5. (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) (synset 114503199)
    "the solid state of water is called ice"
    tells us about:
    • solid - of definite shape and volume; firm; neither liquid nor gaseous
    • liquid - existing as or having characteristics of a liquid; especially tending to flow
    • gaseous - existing as or having characteristics of a gas
    referred to in: chemical science, chemistry - the science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions
    is a type of: chemical phenomenon - any natural phenomenon involving chemistry (as changes to atoms or molecules)
    subtypes:
    • form, phase - (physical chemistry) a distinct state of matter in a system; matter that is identical in chemical composition and physical state and separated from other material by the phase boundary
    • liquid, liquid state, liquidity, liquidness - the state in which a substance exhibits a characteristic readiness to flow with little or no tendency to disperse and relatively high incompressibility
    • solid, solid state, solidness - the state in which a substance has no tendency to flow under moderate stress; resists forces (such as compression) that tend to deform it; and retains a definite size and shape
    • gas, gaseous state - the state of matter distinguished from the solid and liquid states by: relatively low density and viscosity; relatively great expansion and contraction with changes in pressure and temperature; the ability to diffuse readily; and the spontaneous tendency to become distributed uniformly throughout any container
    • plasma - (physical chemistry) a fourth state of matter distinct from solid or liquid or gas and present in stars and fusion reactors; a gas becomes a plasma when it is heated until the atoms lose all their electrons, leaving a highly electrified collection of nuclei and free electrons
    same as: state of matter
  6. A state of depression or agitation (synset 114011983)
    "he was in such a state you just couldn't reason with him"
    domain usage: colloquialism - a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech
    is a type of: emotional state, spirit - the state of a person's emotions (especially with regard to pleasure or dejection)
  7. The territory occupied by a nation (synset 108562388)
    "he returned to the land of his birth"; "he visited several European countries"
    is a type of: administrative district, administrative division, territorial division - a district defined for administrative purposes
    subtypes:
    specific instances:
    member holonym:
    • department - the territorial and administrative division of some countries (such as France)
    • province, state - the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation
    has:
    same as: country, land
  8. The federal department in the United States that sets and maintains foreign policies (synset 108154738)
    "the Department of State was created in 1789"
    is a type of: executive department - a federal department in the executive branch of the government of the United States
    subtypes: foggy bottom - United States Department of State, which is housed in a building in a low-lying area of Washington near the Potomac River
    has:
    • bureau of diplomatic security, ds - the bureau in the State Department that is responsible for the security of diplomats and embassies overseas
    • foreign service - the part of the State Department that supplies diplomats for the United States embassies and consulates around the world
    • bureau of intelligence and research, inr - an agency that is the primary source in the State Department for interpretive analyses of global developments and focal point for policy issues and activities of the Intelligence Community
    same as: department of state, dos, state department, united states department of state
Verb
  1. Express in words (synset 201011267)
    "He said that he wanted to marry her"; "tell me what is bothering you"; "state your opinion"; "state your name"
    is a type of: express, give tongue to, utter, verbalise, verbalize - articulate; either verbally or with a cry, shout, or noise
    subtypes:
    same as: say, tell
    verb group: say - state as one's opinion or judgement; declare
  2. Put before (synset 200879667)
    "I submit to you that the accused is guilty"
    is a type of: advise, propose, suggest - make a proposal, declare a plan for something
    same as: posit, put forward, submit
  3. Indicate through a symbol, formula, etc. (synset 201063503)
    "Can you express this distance in kilometers?"
    is a type of: denote, refer - have as a meaning
    subtypes:
    • vote - express a choice or opinion
    • vote - express one's choice or preference by vote
    same as: express

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