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How to sign: express in words
"He said that he wanted to marry her"; "tell me what is bothering you"; "state your opinion"; "state your name";
Categories: express, give tongue to, utter, verbalise, verbalize
Within this category: add, announce, answer, articulate, declare, declare, explain, get out, give, misstate, note, precede, present, summarize
How to sign: 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";
Similiar / Same: nation, res publica, body politic, country, commonwealth, land
Categories: political unit
Within this category: ally, city state, Dominion, Reich, rogue state, sea power, suzerain, world power
How to sign: the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation
"his state is in the deep south";
Similiar / Same: province
Categories: administrative district, administrative division, territorial division
Within this category: Abkhaz, Adzhar, American state, Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Australian state, Bavaria, Bihar, Buganda, Canadian province, Cape of Good Hope, Cape Province, Chihuahua, commonwealth, eparchy, Free State, Friesland, Gansu, Goa, Guangdong, Gujarat, Hebei, Hunan, Indonesian Borneo, Inner Mongolia, Italian region, Karnataka, Kosovo, Lower Saxony, Manipur, Orissa, Soviet Socialist Republic, Szechwan, Tamil Nadu, Transvaal, Tyrol, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Xinjiang, Yunnan
How to sign: (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";
Similiar / Same: state of matter
Categories: chemical phenomenon
