State vs. Province

Statenoun

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

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(physics) A complete description of a system, consisting of parameters that determine all properties of the system.

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(computing) The stable condition of a processor during a particular clock cycle.

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(computing) The set of all parameters relevant to a computation.

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(computing) The values of all parameters at some point in a computation.

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(sciences) The physical property of matter as solid, liquid, gas or plasma.

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(obsolete) 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.

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High social standing or circumstance.

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Pomp, ceremony, or dignity.

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Rank; condition; quality.

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

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

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(obsolete) A great person, a dignitary; a lord or prince.

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(obsolete) Estate, possession.

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A polity.

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Any sovereign polity; a national or city-state government.

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A political division of a federation retaining a notable degree of autonomy, as in the United States or Germany; any province.

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(obsolete) A form of government other than a monarchy.

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(anthropology) A society larger than a tribe. A society large enough to form a state in the sense of a government.

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An element of the range of the random variables that define a random process.

Stateverb

(transitive) To declare to be a fact.

Stateverb

(transitive) To make known.

Stateadjective

(obsolete) stately

Statenoun

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

Statenoun

Rank; condition; quality; as, the state of honor.

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

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Appearance of grandeur or dignity; pomp.

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

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Estate; possession.

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A person of high rank.

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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.

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The principal persons in a government.

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

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

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

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

Statenoun

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.

Statenoun

A statement; also, a document containing a statement.

Stateadjective

Stately.

Stateadjective

Belonging to the state, or body politic; public.

Stateverb

To set; to settle; to establish.

Stateverb

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.

Statenoun

the group of people comprising the government of a sovereign state;

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the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation;

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a politically organized body of people under a single government;

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the way something is with respect to its main attributes;

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the federal department in the UnitedStates that sets and maintains foreign policies;

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the territory occupied by a nation;

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a state of depression or agitation;

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(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);

Stateverb

express in words;

Stateverb

put before;

Stateverb

indicate through a symbol, formula, etc.;

Provincenoun

A region of the earth or of a continent; a district or country.

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An administrative subdivision of certain countries, including Canada and China.

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(Roman history) An area outside Italy which is administered by a Roman governor.

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(Christianity) An area under the jurisdiction of an archbishop, typically comprising a number of adjacent dioceses.

Provincenoun

The parts of a country outside its capital city.

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An area of activity, responsibility or knowledge; the proper concern of a particular person or concept.

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A country or region, more or less remote from the city of Rome, brought under the Roman government; a conquered country beyond the limits of Italy.

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A country or region dependent on a distant authority; a portion of an empire or state, esp. one remote from the capital.

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A region of country; a tract; a district.

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A region under the supervision or direction of any special person; the district or division of a country, especially an ecclesiastical division, over which one has jurisdiction; as, the province of Canterbury, or that in which the archbishop of Canterbury exercises ecclesiastical authority.

Provincenoun

The proper or appropriate business or duty of a person or body; office; charge; jurisdiction; sphere.

Provincenoun

Specif.: Any political division of the Dominion of Canada, having a governor, a local legislature, and representation in the Dominion parliament. Hence, colloquially, The Provinces, the Dominion of Canada.

Provincenoun

the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation;

Provincenoun

the proper sphere or extent of your activities;

Provincenoun

a principal administrative division of a country or empire

Provincenoun

Northern Ireland

Provincenoun

a district under an archbishop or a metropolitan.

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a territory outside Italy under a Roman governor.

Provincenoun

the whole of a country outside the capital, especially when regarded as lacking in sophistication or culture

Provincenoun

an area of special knowledge, interest, or responsibility

Province

A province is almost always an administrative division within a country or state. The term derives from the ancient Roman provincia, which was the major territorial and administrative unit of the Roman Empire's territorial possessions outside Italy.