State vs. Claim

Statenoun

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

‘a state of being;’; ‘a state of emergency’;

Claimnoun

A demand of ownership made for something.

‘a claim of ownership’; ‘a claim of victory’;

Statenoun

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

Claimnoun

The thing claimed.

Statenoun

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

‘In the fetch state, the address of the next instruction is placed on the address bus.’;

Claimnoun

The right or ground of demanding.

‘You don't have any claim on my time, since I'm no longer your employee.’;

Statenoun

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

‘The state here includes a set containing all names seen so far.’;

Claimnoun

A new statement of something one believes to be the truth, usually when the statement has yet to be verified or without valid evidence provided.

‘The company's share price dropped amid claims of accounting fraud.’;

Statenoun

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

‘A debugger can show the state of a program at any breakpoint.’;

Claimnoun

A demand of ownership for previously unowned land.

‘Miners had to stake their claims during the gold rush.’;

Statenoun

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

Claimnoun

(legal) A legal demand for compensation or damages.

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.

Claimverb

To demand ownership of.

Statenoun

High social standing or circumstance.

Claimverb

To state a new fact, typically without providing evidence to prove it is true.

Statenoun

Pomp, ceremony, or dignity.

‘The President's body will lie in state at the Capitol.’;

Claimverb

To demand ownership or right to use for land.

Statenoun

Rank; condition; quality.

Claimverb

(legal) To demand compensation or damages through the courts.

Statenoun

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

Claimverb

(intransitive) To be entitled to anything; to deduce a right or title; to have a claim.

Statenoun

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

Claimverb

(archaic) To proclaim.

Statenoun

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

Claimverb

(archaic) To call or name.

Statenoun

(obsolete) Estate, possession.

Claimverb

To ask for, or seek to obtain, by virtue of authority, right, or supposed right; to challenge as a right; to demand as due.

Statenoun

A polity.

Claimverb

To proclaim.

Statenoun

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

Claimverb

To call or name.

Statenoun

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

Claimverb

To assert; to maintain.

Statenoun

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

Claimverb

To be entitled to anything; to deduce a right or title; to have a claim.

‘We must know how the first ruler, from whom any one claims, came by his authority.’;

Statenoun

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

Claimnoun

A demand of a right or supposed right; a calling on another for something due or supposed to be due; an assertion of a right or fact.

Statenoun

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

Claimnoun

A right to claim or demand something; a title to any debt, privilege, or other thing in possession of another; also, a title to anything which another should give or concede to, or confer on, the claimant.

Stateverb

(transitive) To declare to be a fact.

‘He stated that he was willing to help.’;

Claimnoun

The thing claimed or demanded; that (as land) to which any one intends to establish a right; ; as, a settler's claim; a miner's claim.

Stateverb

(transitive) To make known.

‘State your intentions.’;

Claimnoun

A loud call.

Stateadjective

(obsolete) stately

Claimnoun

an assertion of a right (as to money or property);

‘his claim asked for damages’;

Statenoun

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

‘State is a term nearly synonymous with "mode," but of a meaning more extensive, and is not exclusively limited to the mutable and contingent.’; ‘Declare the past and present state of things.’; ‘Keep the state of the question in your eye.’;

Claimnoun

an assertion that something is true or factual;

‘his claim that he was innocent’; ‘evidence contradicted the government's claims’;

Statenoun

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

‘Thy honor, state, and seat is due to me.’;

Claimnoun

demand for something as rightful or due;

‘they struck in support of their claim for a shorter work day’;

Statenoun

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

‘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?’;

Claimnoun

an informal right to something;

‘his claim on her attentions’; ‘his title to fame’;

Statenoun

Appearance of grandeur or dignity; pomp.

‘Where least of state there most of love is shown.’;

Claimnoun

an established or recognized right;

‘a strong legal claim to the property’; ‘he had no documents confirming his title to his father's estate’; ‘he staked his claim’;

Statenoun

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

‘His high throne, . . . under stateOf richest texture spread.’; ‘When he went to court, he used to kick away the state, and sit down by his prince cheek by jowl.’;

Claimnoun

a demand especially in the phrase

‘the call of duty’;

Statenoun

Estate; possession.

‘Your state, my lord, again is yours.’;

Claimverb

assert or affirm strongly; state to be true or existing;

‘He claimed that he killed the burglar’;

Statenoun

A person of high rank.

Claimverb

demand as being one's due or property; assert one's right or title to;

‘He claimed his suitcases at the airline counter’; ‘Mr. Smith claims special tax exemptions because he is a foreign resident’;

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.

Claimverb

ask for legally or make a legal claim to, as of debts, for example;

‘They claimed on the maximum allowable amount’;

Statenoun

The principal persons in a government.

‘The bold designPleased highly those infernal states.’;

Claimverb

lay claim to; as of an idea;

‘She took credit for the whole idea’;

Statenoun

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

Claimverb

take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs;

‘the accident claimed three lives’; ‘The hard work took its toll on her’;

Statenoun

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

‘Well monarchies may own religion's name,But states are atheists in their very fame.’;

Claimverb

state or assert that something is the case, typically without providing evidence or proof

‘‘I'm entitled to be conceited,’ he claimed’; ‘not every employee is eligible to claim unfair dismissal’; ‘the Prime Minister claimed that he was concerned about Third World debt’;

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.

‘Municipal law is a rule of conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a state.’; ‘The Puritans in the reign of Mary, driven from their homes, sought an asylum in Geneva, where they found a state without a king, and a church without a bishop.’;

Claimverb

assert that one has gained or achieved (something)

‘his supporters claimed victory in the presidential elections’;

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.

Claimverb

formally request or demand; say that one owns or has earned (something)

‘if no one claims the items, they will become Crown property’;

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.

‘I do not, brother,Infer as if I thought my sister's stateSecure without all doubt or controversy.’; ‘We hoped to enjoy with ease what, in our situation, might be called the luxuries of life.’; ‘And, O, what man's condition can be worseThan his whom plenty starves and blessings curse?’;

Claimverb

make a demand for (money) under the terms of an insurance policy

‘the premiums are reduced by fifty per cent if you don't claim on the policy’;

Statenoun

A statement; also, a document containing a statement.

Claimverb

call for (someone's notice and thought)

‘a most unwelcome event claimed his attention’;

Stateadjective

Stately.

Claimverb

cause the loss of (someone's life)

‘the attacks claimed the lives of five people’;

Stateadjective

Belonging to the state, or body politic; public.

Claimnoun

an assertion that something is true

‘he was dogged by the claim that he had CIA links’;

Stateverb

To set; to settle; to establish.

‘I myself, though meanest stated,And in court now almost hated.’; ‘Who calls the council, states the certain day.’;

Claimnoun

a statement of the novel features in a patent

‘the two patents based on his claims will be reconfirmed’;

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.

Claimnoun

a demand or request for something considered one's due

‘the court had denied their claims to asylum’;

Statenoun

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

‘the state has lowered its income tax’;

Claimnoun

an application for compensation under the terms of an insurance policy

‘he should make a claim on his house insurance for storm damage’;

Statenoun

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

‘his state is in the deep south’;

Claimnoun

a right or title to something

‘they have first claim on the assets of the trust’;

Statenoun

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’;

Claimnoun

a piece of land allotted to or taken by someone in order to be mined

‘each of them was to be rewarded with a farm and a number of mining claims in the land’;

Statenoun

the way something is with respect to its main attributes;

‘the current state of knowledge’; ‘his state of health’; ‘in a weak financial state’;

Statenoun

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

‘the Department of State was created in 1789’;

Statenoun

the territory occupied by a nation;

‘he returned to the land of his birth’; ‘he visited several European countries’;

Statenoun

a state of depression or agitation;

‘he was in such a state you just couldn't reason with him’;

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);

‘the solid state of water is called ice’;

Stateverb

express in words;

‘He said that he wanted to marry her’; ‘tell me what is bothering you’; ‘state your opinion’; ‘state your name’;

Stateverb

put before;

‘I submit to you that the accused is guilty’;

Stateverb

indicate through a symbol, formula, etc.;

‘Can you express this distance in kilometers?’;