What does state mean?

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[n] the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation(his state is in the deep south)[v] express in words(He said that he wanted to marry her tell me what is bothering you state your opinion state your name)[n] the way something is with respect to its ma

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[n] the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation
(his state is in the deep south)

[v] express in words
(He said that he wanted to marry her tell me what is bothering you state your opinion state your name)

[n] the way something is with respect to its main attributes
(the current state of knowledge his state of health in a weak financial state)

[v] put before
(I submit to you that the accused is guilty)

[n] the group of people comprising the government of a sovereign state
(the state has lowered its income tax)

[v] indicate through a symbol, formula, etc.
(Can you express this distance in kilometers?)

[n] 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)

[n] (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)

[n] a state of depression or agitation
(he was in such a state you just couldn't reason with him)

[n] the territory occupied by a nation
(he returned to the land of his birth he visited several European countries)

[n] the federal department in the United States that sets and maintains foreign policies
(the Department of State was created in 1789)

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A broad distinction is made between general and specialized dictionaries. Specialized dictionaries include words in specialist fields, rather than a complete range of words in the language. Lexical items that describe concepts in specific fields are usually called terms instead of words, although there is no consensus whether lexicology and terminology are two different fields of study. In theory, general dictionaries are supposed[citation needed] to be semasiological, mapping word to definition, while specialized dictionaries are supposed to be onomasiological, first identifying concepts and then establishing the terms used to designate them. In practice, the two approaches are used for both types. There are other types of dictionaries that do not fit neatly into the above distinction, for instance bilingual (translation) dictionaries, dictionaries of synonyms (thesauri), and rhyming dictionaries. The word dictionary (unqualified) is usually understood to refer to a general purpose monolingual dictionary.

There is also a contrast between prescriptive or descriptive dictionaries; the former reflect what is seen as correct use of the language while the latter reflect recorded actual use. Stylistic indications (e.g. "informal" or "vulgar") in many modern dictionaries are also considered by some to be less than objectively descriptive.

The first recorded dictionaries date back to Sumerian times around 2300 BCE, in the form of bilingual dictionaries, and the oldest surviving monolingual dictionaries are Chinese dictionaries c. 3rd century BCE. The first purely English alphabetical dictionary was A Table Alphabeticall, written in 1604, and monolingual dictionaries in other languages also began appearing in Europe at around this time. The systematic study of dictionaries as objects of scientific interest arose as a 20th-century enterprise, called lexicography, and largely initiated by Ladislav Zgusta. The birth of the new discipline was not without controversy, with the practical dictionary-makers being sometimes accused by others of having an "astonishing" lack of method and critical-self reflection.