Territory vs. State
Territorynoun
A large extent or tract of land; for example a region, country or district.
Territorynoun
(Canada) One of three of Canada's federated entities, located in the country's Arctic, with fewer powers than a province and created by an act of Parliament rather than by the Constitution: Yukon, Northwest Territories, and Nunavut.
Territorynoun
A geographic area under control of a single governing entity such as state or municipality; an area whose borders are determined by the scope of political power rather than solely by natural features such as rivers and ridges.
Territorynoun
(ecology) An area that an animal of a particular species consistently defends against its conspecifics.
Territorynoun
The part of the playing field or board over which a player or team has control.
Territorynoun
A geographic area that a person or organization is responsible for in the course of work.
Territorynoun
A location or logical space which someone owns or controls.
Territorynoun
A market segment or scope of professional practice over which an organization or type of practitioner has exclusive rights.
Territorynoun
An area of subject matter, knowledge, or experience.
Territorynoun
A large extent or tract of land; a region; a country; a district.
Territorynoun
The extent of land belonging to, or under the dominion of, a prince, state, or other form of government; often, a tract of land lying at a distance from the parent country or from the seat of government; as, the territory of a State; the territories of the East India Company.
Territorynoun
In the United States, a portion of the country not included within the limits of any State, and not yet admitted as a State into the Union, but organized with a separate legislature, under a Territorial governor and other officers appointed by the President and Senate of the United States. In Canada, a similarly organized portion of the country not yet formed into a Province.
Territorynoun
a region marked off for administrative or other purposes
Territorynoun
an area of knowledge or interest;
Territorynoun
the geographical area under the jurisdiction of a sovereign state;
Territory
A territory is an administrative division, usually an area that is under the jurisdiction of a sovereign state. In most countries, a territory is an organized division of an area that is controlled by a country but is not formally developed into, or incorporated into, a political unit of the country that is of equal status to other political units that may often be referred to by words such as or or .
Statenoun
A condition; a set of circumstances applying at any given time.
Statenoun
(physics) A complete description of a system, consisting of parameters that determine all properties of the system.
Statenoun
(computing) The stable condition of a processor during a particular clock cycle.
Statenoun
(computing) The set of all parameters relevant to a computation.
Statenoun
(computing) The values of all parameters at some point in a computation.
Statenoun
(sciences) The physical property of matter as solid, liquid, gas or plasma.
Statenoun
(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.
Statenoun
High social standing or circumstance.
Statenoun
Pomp, ceremony, or dignity.
Statenoun
Rank; condition; quality.
Statenoun
Condition of prosperity or grandeur; wealthy or prosperous circumstances; social importance.
Statenoun
A chair with a canopy above it, often standing on a dais; a seat of dignity; also, the canopy itself.
Statenoun
(obsolete) A great person, a dignitary; a lord or prince.
Statenoun
(obsolete) Estate, possession.
Statenoun
A polity.
Statenoun
Any sovereign polity; a national or city-state government.
Statenoun
A political division of a federation retaining a notable degree of autonomy, as in the United States or Germany; any province.
Statenoun
(obsolete) A form of government other than a monarchy.
Statenoun
(anthropology) A society larger than a tribe. A society large enough to form a state in the sense of a government.
Statenoun
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.
Statenoun
Condition of prosperity or grandeur; wealthy or prosperous circumstances; social importance.
Statenoun
Appearance of grandeur or dignity; pomp.
Statenoun
A chair with a canopy above it, often standing on a dais; a seat of dignity; also, the canopy itself.
Statenoun
Estate; possession.
Statenoun
A person of high rank.
Statenoun
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.
Statenoun
The principal persons in a government.
Statenoun
The bodies that constitute the legislature of a country; as, the States-general of Holland.
Statenoun
A form of government which is not monarchial, as a republic.
Statenoun
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.
Statenoun
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;
Statenoun
the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation;
Statenoun
a politically organized body of people under a single government;
Statenoun
the way something is with respect to its main attributes;
Statenoun
the federal department in the UnitedStates that sets and maintains foreign policies;
Statenoun
the territory occupied by a nation;
Statenoun
a state of depression or agitation;
Statenoun
(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.;
