State

[steɪt] or [stet]

解释:

(noun.) the way something is with respect to its main attributes; 'the current state of knowledge'; 'his state of health'; 'in a weak financial state'.

(noun.) 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'.

(noun.) the group of people comprising the government of a sovereign state; 'the state has lowered its income tax'.

(noun.) the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation; 'his state is in the deep south'.

(noun.) a state of depression or agitation; 'he was in such a state you just couldn't reason with him'.

(verb.) express in words; 'He said that he wanted to marry her'; 'tell me what is bothering you'; 'state your opinion'; 'state your name'.

编辑:雷金纳德--From WordNet

解释:

(n.) The circumstances or condition of a being or thing at any given time.

(n.) Rank; condition; quality; as, the state of honor.

(n.) Condition of prosperity or grandeur; wealthy or prosperous circumstances; social importance.

(n.) Appearance of grandeur or dignity; pomp.

(n.) A chair with a canopy above it, often standing on a dais; a seat of dignity; also, the canopy itself.

(n.) Estate, possession.

(n.) A person of high rank.

(n.) Any body of men united by profession, or constituting a community of a particular character; as, the civil and ecclesiastical states, or the lords spiritual and temporal and the commons, in Great Britain. Cf. Estate, n., 6.

(n.) The principal persons in a government.

(n.) The bodies that constitute the legislature of a country; as, the States-general of Holland.

(n.) A form of government which is not monarchial, as a republic.

(n.) A political body, or body politic; the whole body of people who are united one government, whatever may be the form of the government; a nation.

(n.) In the United States, one of the commonwealth, or bodies politic, the people of which make up the body of the nation, and which, under the national constitution, stands in certain specified relations with the national government, and are invested, as commonwealth, with full power in their several spheres over all matters not expressly inhibited.

(n.) Highest and stationary condition, as that of maturity between growth and decline, or as that of crisis between the increase and the abating of a disease; height; acme.

(a.) Stately.

(a.) Belonging to the state, or body politic; public.

(v. t.) To set; to settle; to establish.

(v. t.) To express the particulars of; to set down in detail or in gross; to represent fully in words; to narrate; to recite; as, to state the facts of a case, one's opinion, etc.

(n.) A statement; also, a document containing a statement.

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同义词及近义词：

n. [1]. Condition, situation, position, plight, predicament, pass, case, category.[2]. Commonwealth, civil community, body politic.[3]. Pomp, parade, dignity, grandeur, magnificence, glory.

v. a. Express (with particularity), explain, specify, set forth.

a. National, public.

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同义词及反义词：

SYN:Position, condition, situation, circumstances, plight, predicament, case, province,[See AFFRIGHT]

SYN:Say, declare, propound, aver, set_forth, narrate, specify, particularize, avow,recite

ANT:Suppress, repress, suppose, imply, deny, contradict, retract

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解释:

n. position: condition: situation: circumstances at any time: the whole body of people under one government: the public: the civil power: estate one of the orders or classes of men forming the body politic (as nobles clergy commonalty): a body of men united by profession: rank quality: pomp: dignity: style of living: stability continuance: (pl.) the bodies constituting the legislature of a country: (obs.) a seat of dignity: a stage condition as of an etched or engraved plate at one particular stage of its progress.—adj. belonging to the state: public: royal: ceremonial: pompous: magnificent.—v.t. to set forth: to express the details of: to set down fully and formally: to narrate: to set in order: to settle.—adj. Stāt′able capable of being stated.—ns. State′-craft the art of managing state affairs; State′-crim′inal one who commits an offence against the state as treason.—adj. Stāt′ed settled: established: fixed: regular.—adv. Stāt′edly.—ns. State′-house the building in which the legislature of a state holds its sittings; Stāte′liness.—adj. Stāte′ly showing state or dignity: majestic: grand.—adv. majestically: (Milt.) loftily.—ns. Stāte′ment the act of stating: that which is stated: a narrative or recital; State′-pā′per an official paper or document relating to affairs of state; State′-pris′on; State′-pris′oner a prisoner confined for offence against the state; State′-relig′ion the establishment or endowment by the government of a country of some particular form of religion; State′room a stately room in a palace or mansion: principal room in the cabin of a ship; States′-gen′eral the name given to the representative body of the three orders (nobility clergy burghers) of the French kingdom; States′man a man acquainted with the affairs of government: one skilled in government: one employed in public affairs: a politician: one who farms his own estate a small landholder.—adj. States′man-like like a statesman.—adv. States′manly in a manner becoming a statesman.—n. States′manship.—State socialism a scheme of government which would entrust to the state the carrying on of the great enterprises of private industry; States of the Church the former temporal possessions of the popes.

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