State vs Part - What's the difference?
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A polity.
# Any sovereign polity; a government.
#* 20C , (Albert Einstein), as quoted by Virgil Henshaw in Albert Einstein: Philosopher Scientist (1949)
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, title= # A political division of a federation retaining a degree of autonomy, for example one of the fifty United States. See also Province.
# (obsolete) A form of government other than a monarchy.
#* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)
# (anthropology) A society larger than a tribe. A society large enough to form a state in the sense of a government.
A condition; a set of circumstances applying at any given time.
* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)
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# (computing) The stable condition of a processor during a particular clock cycle.
# (computing) The set of all parameters relevant to a computation.
# (computing) The values of all parameters at some point in a computation.
# (sciences) The physical property of matter as solid, liquid, gas or plasma.
# (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.
High social standing or circumstance.
# Pomp, ceremony, or dignity.
# Rank; condition; quality.
#* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
# Condition of prosperity or grandeur; wealthy or prosperous circumstances; social importance.
#* (Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)
#* (Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
# A chair with a canopy above it, often standing on a dais; a seat of dignity; also, the canopy itself.
#* (John Milton) (1608-1674)
#* (Jonathan Swift) (1667–1745)
# (obsolete) A great person, a dignitary; a lord or prince.
#* 1644 , (John Milton), (Aeropagitica) :
# (obsolete) Estate, possession.
#* (Philip Massinger) (1583-1640)
(mathematics, stochastic processes) An element of the range of the random variables that define a random process.
(lb) To declare to be a fact.
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*:Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations. It is easily earned repetition to state that Josephine St. Auban's was a presence not to be concealed.
To make known.
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(label) A portion; a component.
#A fraction of a whole.
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#A group inside a larger group.
#Share, especially of a profit.
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#A unit of relative proportion in a mixture.
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#3.5 centiliters of one ingredient in a mixed drink.
#A section of a document.
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#A section of land; an area of a country or other territory; region.
#*1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , II.vi:
#*:the Faery knight / Besought that Damzell suffer him depart, / And yield him readie passage to that other part .
# A factor.
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Duty; responsibility.
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#Position or role (especially in a play).
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, title= #(label) The melody played or sung by a particular instrument, voice, or group of instruments or voices, within a polyphonic piece.
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#Each of two contrasting sides of an argument, debate etc.; "hand".
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#*:the fruition of life cannot perfectly be pleasing unto us, if we stand in any feare to lose it. A man might nevertheless say on the contrary part , that we embrace and claspe this good so much the harder, and with more affection, as we perceive it to be less sure, and feare it should be taken from us.
#*Bible, (w), ix.40:
#*:He that is not against us is on our part .
#*(Edmund Waller) (1606-1687)
#*:Make whole kingdoms take her brother's part .
(US) The dividing line formed by combing the hair in different directions.
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(label) In the Hebrew lunisolar calendar, a unit of time equivalent to 3? seconds. (jump)
A constituent of character or capacity; quality; faculty; talent; usually in the plural with a collective sense.
*(Edmund Burke) (1729-1797)
*:men of considerable parts
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*:great quickness of parts
*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
*:which maintained so politic a state of evil, that they will not admit any good part to intermingle with them.
(lb) To leave.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:He wrung Bassanio's hand, and so they parted .
*(Anthony Trollope) (1815-1882)
*:It was strange to him that a father should feel no tenderness at parting with an only son.
*(George Eliot) (1819-1880)
*:his precious bag, which he would by no means part from
To cut hair with a parting; shed.
(lb) To divide in two.
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*1884 , (Mark Twain), (The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn), Chapter VII
*:I run the canoe into a deep dent in the bank that I knowed about; I had to part the willow branches to get in; and when I made fast nobody could a seen the canoe from the outside.
(lb) To be divided in two or separated; shed.
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To divide up; to share.
*1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. (Bible) , (w) III:
*:He that hath ij. cootes, lett hym parte with hym that hath none: And he that hath meate, let him do lyke wyse.
*(Bible), (w) xix. 24
*:They parted my raiment among them.
*(Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
*:to part his throne, and share his heaven with thee
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*:He left three sonnes, his famous progeny, / Borne of faire Inogene of Italy; / Mongst whom he parted his imperiall state
(lb) To have a part or share; to partake.
*(Bible), 1 (w) xxx. 24
*:They shall part alike.
To separate or disunite; to remove from contact or contiguity; to sunder.
*(Bible), (w) xxiv. 51
*:While he blessed them, he was parted from them, and carried up into heaven.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:The narrow seas that part / The French and English.
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*:"A fine man, that Dunwody, yonder," commented the young captain, as they parted , and as he turned to his prisoner. "We'll see him on in Washington some day. He is strengthening his forces now against Mr. Benton out there.."
(lb) To hold apart; to stand or intervene between.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:The stumbling night did part our weary powers.
To separate by a process of extraction, elimination, or secretion.
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*(Matthew Prior) (1664-1721)
*:The liver minds his own affair,/ And parts and strains the vital juices.
To leave; to quit.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:since presently your souls must part your bodies
To leave (an IRC channel).
*2000 , "Phantom", Re: Uhm... hi... I guess...'' (on newsgroup ''alt.support.boy-lovers )
*:He parted the channel saying "SHUTUP!"since then, I've been seeing him on IRC every day (really can't imagine him not being on IRC anymore actually).
Fractional; partial.
Partly; partially; fractionally.
In obsolete terms the difference between state and part
is that state is stately while part is to hold apart; to stand or intervene between.In transitive terms the difference between state and part
is that state is to make known while part is to divide in two.As a proper noun State
is state University, as the shortened form of any public university name.As an adverb part is
partly; partially; fractionally.state
English
Noun
(wikipedia state) (en noun)- Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.
Fantasy of navigation, passage=It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: […]; […]; or perhaps to muse on the irrelevance of the borders that separate nation states and keep people from understanding their shared environment.}}
- Well monarchies may own religion's name, / But states are atheists in their very fame.
- Declare the past and present state of things.
- Thy honour, state , and seat is due to me.
- She instructed him how he should keep state , and yet with a modest sense of his misfortunes.
- Can this imperious lord forget to reign, / Quit all his state , descend, and serve again?
- His high throne,under state / Of richest texture spread.
- When he went to court, he used to kick away the state , and sit down by his prince cheek by jowl.
- They who to States and Governours of the Commonwealth direct their Speech.
- (Daniel)
- Your state , my lord, again is yours.
Derived terms
* absolute state * blue state * bound state * buffer state * cat state * change of state * chief of state * city state * civilization-state * client state * cluster state * continental state * convention state * deep state * end state * excited state * failed state * federal state * feudatory state * flyover state * fogue state * free state * graph state * green state * ground state * hole state * in a state * iron state * island state * head of state * landlocked state * link state * member state * nanny state * narco state * nation-state * night watchman state * party state * police state * poppet state * princely state * pro-state * pseudostate * purple state * quantum state * red state * rogue state * rump state * save state * solid state * statehood * state flower * state of affairs * state of emergency * state of matter * state of mind * state of the arts * state capital * state house * state machine * state ownership * state pattern * state school * state secret * state space * state variable * stateside * statesman * statesmanship * steady state * swing state * transition state * wait state * unitary state * upstate * welfare state (state)See also
* department * provinceVerb
Usage notes
State'' is stronger or more definitive than ''say . It is used to communicate an absence of reasonable doubt and to emphasize the factual or truthful nature of the communication.Synonyms
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English
Noun
(en noun)Towards the end of poverty, passage=America’s poverty line is $63 a day for a family of four. In the richer parts of the emerging world $4 a day is the poverty barrier. But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 ([…]): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.}}
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The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=He was thinking; but the glory of the song, the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights,
Synonyms
* portion, component, element * faction, party * position, role * parting (UK), (l), (l)/(l) * (jump) chelek * See alsoHolonyms
* wholeDerived terms
* part and parcel * part of speechVerb
(en verb)Derived terms
* part ways * part withAdjective
(-)- Fred was part owner of the car.