Slated vs. Stated — What's the Difference?

A fine-grained metamorphic rock that splits into thin, smooth-surfaced layers.

A condition or mode of being, as with regard to circumstances

A piece of this rock cut for use as roofing or surfacing material or as a writing surface.

A condition of being in a stage or form, as of structure, growth, or development

A writing tablet made of a similar material.

A mental or emotional condition

A record of past performance or activity

(Informal) A condition of excitement or distress

A list of the candidates of a political party running for various offices.

Social position or rank.

A dark or bluish gray to dark bluish or dark purplish gray.

(Physics) The condition of a physical system with regard to phase, form, composition, or structure

Made of a fine-grained metamorphic rock

Ceremony; pomp

Of the color slate.

The supreme public power within a sovereign political entity

To cover (a roof, for example) with slate.

The sphere of supreme civil power within a given polity

To put on a list of candidates.

A specific kind of government

To schedule or designate

A body politic, especially one constituting a nation

Scheduled

One of the more or less internally autonomous territorial and political units composing a federation under a sovereign government

Simple past tense and past participle of slate

Of or relating to a body politic or to an internally autonomous territorial or political unit constituting a federation under one government

Owned and operated by a state

To set forth in words; declare.

Simple past tense and past participle of state

Expressed in a statement; uttered or written.

Settled; established; fixed.

Recurring at a regular time; not occasional.

Settled; established; fixed.

Recurring at regular times; not occasional; as, stated preaching; stated business hours.

Declared as fact; explicitly stated