State vs. Claim — What's the Difference?
Difference Between State and Claim
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State
A condition or mode of being, as with regard to circumstances
The office was in a state of confusion.
Claim
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
State
A condition of being in a stage or form, as of structure, growth, or development
The fetal state.
Claim
Formally request or demand; say that one owns or has earned (something)
If no one claims the items, they will become Crown property
State
A mental or emotional condition
In a manic state.
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Claim
Cause the loss of (someone's life)
The attacks claimed the lives of five people
State
(Informal) A condition of excitement or distress
Was in a state over going to the prom.
Claim
An assertion that something is true
He was dogged by the claim that he had CIA links
State
Social position or rank.
Claim
A demand or request for something considered one's due
The court had denied their claims to asylum
State
(Physics) The condition of a physical system with regard to phase, form, composition, or structure
Ice is the solid state of water.
Claim
To demand, ask for, or take as one's own or one's due
Claim a reward.
Claim one's luggage at the airport carousel.
State
Ceremony; pomp
Foreign leaders dining in state at the White House.
Claim
To take in a violent manner as if by right
A hurricane that claimed two lives.
State
The supreme public power within a sovereign political entity
The state intervening in the economy.
Claim
To state to be true, especially when open to question; assert or maintain
Claimed he had won the race.
A candidate claiming many supporters.
State
The sphere of supreme civil power within a given polity
Matters of state.
Claim
To deserve or call for; require
Problems that claim her attention.
State
A specific kind of government
The socialist state.
Claim
A demand for something as rightful or due.
State
A body politic, especially one constituting a nation
The states of Eastern Europe.
Claim
A basis for demanding something; a title or right.
State
One of the more or less internally autonomous territorial and political units composing a federation under a sovereign government
The 48 contiguous states of the Union.
Claim
Something claimed in a formal or legal manner, especially a tract of public land staked out by a miner or homesteader.
State
Of or relating to a body politic or to an internally autonomous territorial or political unit constituting a federation under one government
A monarch dealing with state matters.
The department that handles state security.
Claim
A demand for payment in accordance with an insurance policy or other formal arrangement.
State
Owned and operated by a state
State universities.
Claim
The sum of money demanded.
State
To set forth in words; declare.
Claim
A statement of something as a fact; an assertion of truth
Makes no claim to be a cure.
State
A condition; a set of circumstances applying at any given time.
A state of being
A state of emergency
Claim
A demand of ownership made for something.
A claim of ownership
A claim of victory
State
(physics) A complete description of a system, consisting of parameters that determine all properties of the system.
Claim
The thing claimed.
State
A mess; disorder.
Absolute state
In a state
Claim
The right or ground of demanding.
You don't have any claim on my time, since I'm no longer your employee.
State
(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.
Claim
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.
State
(computing) The set of all parameters relevant to a computation.
The state here includes a set containing all names seen so far.
Claim
A demand of ownership for previously unowned land.
Miners had to stake their claims during the gold rush.
State
(computing) The values of all parameters at some point in a computation.
A debugger can show the state of a program at any breakpoint.
Claim
(legal) A legal demand for compensation or damages.
State
(sciences) The physical property of matter as solid, liquid, gas or plasma.
Claim
To demand ownership of.
State
(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.
Claim
To state a new fact, typically without providing evidence to prove it is true.
State
High social standing or circumstance.
Claim
To demand ownership or right to use for land.
State
Pomp, ceremony, or dignity.
In state
The President's body will lie in state at the Capitol.
Claim
(legal) To demand compensation or damages through the courts.
State
Rank; condition; quality.
Claim
(intransitive) To be entitled to anything; to deduce a right or title; to have a claim.
State
Condition of prosperity or grandeur; wealthy or prosperous circumstances; social importance.
Claim
To cause the loss of, usually by violent means.
The attacks claimed the lives of five people.
A fire claimed two homes.
State
A chair with a canopy above it, often standing on a dais; a seat of dignity; also, the canopy itself.
Claim
(obsolete) To proclaim.
State
(obsolete) A great person, a dignitary; a lord or prince.
Claim
(archaic) To call or name.
State
(obsolete) Estate, possession.
Claim
To ask for, or seek to obtain, by virtue of authority, right, or supposed right; to challenge as a right; to demand as due.
State
A polity.
Claim
To proclaim.
State
Any sovereign polity; a national or city-state government.
Claim
To call or name.
State
A political division of a federation retaining a notable degree of autonomy, as in the United States, Mexico, Nigeria, or India.
Claim
To assert; to maintain.
State
(obsolete) A form of government other than a monarchy.
Claim
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.
State
(anthropology) A society larger than a tribe. A society large enough to form a state in the sense of a government.
Claim
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.
State
An element of the range of the random variables that define a random process.
Claim
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.
State
The lexical aspect (aktionsart) of verbs or predicates that do not change over time.
Claim
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.
State
(transitive) To declare to be a fact.
He stated that he was willing to help.
Claim
A loud call.
State
(transitive) To make known.
State your intentions.
Claim
An assertion of a right (as to money or property);
His claim asked for damages
State
(obsolete) Stately.
Claim
An assertion that something is true or factual;
His claim that he was innocent
Evidence contradicted the government's claims
State
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.
Claim
Demand for something as rightful or due;
They struck in support of their claim for a shorter work day
State
Rank; condition; quality; as, the state of honor.
Thy honor, state, and seat is due to me.
Claim
An informal right to something;
His claim on her attentions
His title to fame
State
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?
Claim
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
State
Appearance of grandeur or dignity; pomp.
Where least of state there most of love is shown.
Claim
A demand especially in the phrase
The call of duty
State
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.
Claim
Assert or affirm strongly; state to be true or existing;
He claimed that he killed the burglar
State
Estate; possession.
Your state, my lord, again is yours.
Claim
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
State
A person of high rank.
Claim
Ask for legally or make a legal claim to, as of debts, for example;
They claimed on the maximum allowable amount
State
The principal persons in a government.
The bold designPleased highly those infernal states.
Claim
Lay claim to; as of an idea;
She took credit for the whole idea
State
The bodies that constitute the legislature of a country; as, the States-general of Holland.
Claim
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
State
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.
State
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.
State
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.
State
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?
State
A statement; also, a document containing a statement.
State
Stately.
State
Belonging to the state, or body politic; public.
State
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.
State
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.
State
The group of people comprising the government of a sovereign state;
The state has lowered its income tax
State
The territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation;
His state is in the deep south
State
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
State
The way something is with respect to its main attributes;
The current state of knowledge
His state of health
In a weak financial state
State
The federal department in the UnitedStates that sets and maintains foreign policies;
The Department of State was created in 1789
State
The territory occupied by a nation;
He returned to the land of his birth
He visited several European countries
State
A state of depression or agitation;
He was in such a state you just couldn't reason with him
State
(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
State
Express in words;
He said that he wanted to marry her
Tell me what is bothering you
State your opinion
State your name
State
Put before;
I submit to you that the accused is guilty
State
Indicate through a symbol, formula, etc.;
Can you express this distance in kilometers?
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