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How to pronounce state in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms express
Type of refer, denote
Has types vote
Type Words
Synonyms country, land
Type of administrative district, administrative division, territorial division
Has types country of origin, african nation, south american nation, african country, european country, european nation, south american country, sultanate, motherland, mother country, banana republic, kingdom, fatherland, asian nation, homeland, buffer country, buffer state, north american nation, asian country, north american country, tax haven, native land
Type Words
Synonyms body politic, commonwealth, country, land, nation, res publica
Type of political unit, political entity
Has types foreign country, great power, sea power, rogue state, rogue nation, city-state, renegade state, major power, world power, city state, dominion, commonwealth country, power, superpower, suzerain, developing country, ally, reich


the state has elected a new president.
Type Words
Synonyms state of matter
Type of chemical phenomenon
Has types liquid, liquidness, phase, solidness, solid state, liquidity, form, solid, gaseous state, gas, liquid state, plasma


the solid state of water is called ice.
Type Words
Synonyms province
Type of administrative district, territorial division, administrative division
Has types canadian province, italian region, soviet socialist republic, eparchy, australian state, malaysian state, commonwealth, american state


his state is in the deep south.
Type Words
Synonyms posit, put forward, submit
Type of propose, advise, suggest
Derivation statement
Type Words
Synonyms department of state, dos, state department, united states department of state
Type of executive department
Has types foggy bottom
Type Words
Synonyms say, tell
Type of verbalize, verbalise, utter, express, give tongue to
Has types summarize, present, announce, answer, append, articulate, declare, enunciate, explain, get out, give, introduce, lay out, mention, misstate, note, observe, precede, vocalize, vocalise, preface, premise, supply, summarise, remark, sum up, sum, respond, represent, reply, add
Verb group say
Derivation statement


state your opinion.
state your name.
Type Words
Type of emotional state, spirit


he was in such a state you just couldn't reason with him.
Type Words
Type of authorities, regime, government
Has types soviets, welfare state


the state has lowered its income tax.
Type Words
Type of attribute
Has types ne plus ultra, action, activeness, activity, agency, annulment, antagonism, being, beingness, cleavage, condition, conditionality, conflict, damnation, dead letter, death, degree, delegacy, dependance, dependence, dependency, destruction, disorder, dystopia, employ, employment, end, enlargement, enmity, eternal damnation, existence, face of the earth, feeling, flawlessness, flux, forthcomingness, freedom, grace, ground state, heterozygosity, homozygosity, hostility, illumination, immatureness, immaturity, imminence, imminency, imminentness, impendence, impendency, imperfection, imperfectness, inaction, inactiveness, inactivity, integrity, isomerism, kalemia, level, lifelessness, matureness, maturity, medium, merchantability, motion, motionlessness, multivalence, multivalency, nationhood, natural state, neotony, non-issue, nonbeing, obligation, office, omnipotence, omniscience, order, ornamentation, ownership, paternity, perfection, plurality, point, polyvalence, polyvalency, position, power, preparation, preparedness, readiness, receivership, relationship, representation, revocation, saving grace, separation, situation, skillfulness, stage, state of affairs, state of flux, state of grace, state of nature, status, stillness, technicality, temporary state, tribalism, turgor, unemployment, unification, union, unity, utilization, utopia, wholeness, wild


the current state of knowledge.
his state of health.
in a weak financial state.

Examples of state

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Most were about areas between the state parking lots and state office buildings.
From the tennessean.com
State and federal officials must find a way to finance that long-needed project.
From the dailyherald.com
People sentenced to a year or less serve their time in jail, not a state prison.
From the dailyherald.com
Arizona's incoming state Senate president has rejected billions in federal help.
From the abcnews.go.com
The recommendations would require action by various state and local authorities.
From the stltoday.com
Amid the pomp and circumstance of a state visit, the pointed language stood out.
From the stltoday.com
Gray declined to comment until his appointment is confirmed by the state Senate.
From the stltoday.com
For the Illini, it's a bit of a longer process to establish a hold in the state.
From the stltoday.com
After all, the Bears have made a habit of trekking down to the state tournament.
From the stltoday.com
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  • Express in words; "He said that he wanted to marry her"; "tell me what is bothering you"; "state your opinion"; "state your name"
  • The territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation; "his state is in the deep south"
  • Submit: put before; "I submit to you that the accused is guilty"
  • The way something is with respect to its main attributes; "the current state of knowledge"; "his state of health"; "in a weak financial state"
  • Express: indicate through a symbol, formula, etc.; "Can you express this distance in kilometers?"
  • The group of people comprising the government of a sovereign state; "the state has lowered its income tax"
  • In computer science and automata theory, a state is a unique configuration of information in a program or machine. It is a concept that occasionally extends into some forms of systems programming such as lexers and parsers.
  • In control theory, states are what characterize a system. In other words, state is the essence of the past that affects the future. With linear systems states are not unique, but can be transformed into equivalent states using certain linear transformations.
  • In functional analysis, a state on a C*-algebra is a positive linear functional of norm 1. The set of states of a C*-algebra A, sometimes denoted by S(A), is always a convex set. The extremal points of S(A) are called pure states. ...