state

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";

Similiar / Same: say, tell

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

state

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

state

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

state

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

Within this category: gas, liquid, phase, plasma, solid