Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter S - Page 151
State (n.) In the United States, one of the commonwealth, or bodies politic, the people of which make up the body of the nation, and which, under the national constitution, stands in certain specified relations with the national government, and are invested, as commonwealth, with full power in their several spheres over all matters not expressly inhibited.
Note: The term State, in its technical sense, is used in distinction from the federal system, i. e., the government of the United States.
State (n.) 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. [Obs.]
Note: When state is joined with another word, or used adjectively, it denotes public, or what belongs to the community or body politic, or to the government; also, what belongs to the States severally in the American Union; as, state affairs; state policy; State laws of Iowa.
Nascent state. (Chem.) See under Nascent.
Secretary of state. See Secretary, n., 3.
State
bargea royal barge,
or a barge belonging to a government.
State bed, An elaborately carved or decorated bed.
State carriage, A highly decorated carriage for officials going in state, or taking part in public processions.
State paper, An official paper relating to the interests or government of a state. -- Jay.
State prison, A public prison or penitentiary; -- called also State's prison.
State prisoner, One in confinement, or under arrest, for a political offense.
State rights, or States' rights, The rights of the several independent States, as distinguished from the rights of the Federal government. It has been a question as to what rights have been vested in the general government. [U.S.]
State's evidence. See Probator, 2, and under Evidence.
State sword, A sword used on state occasions, being borne before a sovereign by an attendant of high rank.
State trial, A trial of a person for a political offense.
States of the Church. See under Ecclesiastical.
Syn: State, Situation, Condition.
Usage: State is the generic term, and denotes in general the mode in which a thing stands or exists. The situation of a thing is its state in reference to external objects and influences; its condition is its internal state, or what it is in itself considered. Our situation is good or bad as outward things bear favorably or unfavorably upon us; our condition is good or bad according to the state we are actually in as respects our persons, families, property, and other things which comprise our sources of enjoyment.
I do not, brother, Infer as if I thought my sister's state Secure without all doubt or controversy. -- Milton.
We hoped to enjoy with ease what, in our situation, might be called the luxuries of life. -- Cook.
And, O, what man's condition can be worse Than his whom plenty starves and blessings curse? -- Cowley.
State (a.) Stately. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
State (a.) Belonging to the state, or body politic; public.
Stated (imp. & p. p.) of State
Stating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of State
State (v. t.) To set; to settle; to establish. [R.]
I myself, though meanest stated, And in court now almost hated. -- Wither.
Who calls the council, states the certain day. -- Pope.
State (v. t.) 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.
To state it. To assume state or dignity. [Obs.] "Rarely dressed up, and taught to state it." -- Beau. & Fl.
State (n.) A statement; also, a document containing a statement. [R.] -- Sir W. Scott.
Argillaceous (a.) Of the nature of clay;
consisting of, or containing, argil or clay; clayey.
Argillaceous sandstone (Geol.), A sandstone containing much clay.
Argillaceous iron ore, The clay ironstone.
Argillaceous schist or state. See Argillite.
State (n.) The territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation; "his state is in the deep south" [syn: state, province].
State (n.) 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 (n.) The group of people comprising the government of a sovereign state; "the state has lowered its income tax".
State (n.) 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" [syn: state, nation, country, land, commonwealth, res publica, body politic].
State (n.) (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" [syn: state of matter, state].
State (n.) A state of depression or agitation; "he was in such a state you just couldn't reason with him".
State (n.) The territory occupied by a nation; "he returned to the land of his birth"; "he visited several European countries" [syn: country, state, land].
State (n.) The federal department in the United States that sets and maintains foreign policies; "the Department of State was created in 1789" [syn: Department of State, United States Department of State, State Department, State, DoS].
State (v.) Express in words; "He said that he wanted to marry her"; "tell me what is bothering you"; "state your opinion"; "state your name" [syn: state, say, tell].
State (v.) Put before; "I submit to you that the accused is guilty" [syn: submit, state, put forward, posit].
State (v.) Indicate through a symbol, formula, etc.; "Can you express this distance in kilometers?" [syn: express, state].
State (n.) Condition, situation. ?What's the state of your latest hack?? ?It's winning away.? ?The system tried to read and write the disk simultaneously and got into a totally wedged state.? The standard question ?What's your state?? means ?What are you doing?? or ?What are you about to do?? Typical answers are ?about to gronk out?, or ?hungry?. Another standard question is ? What's the state of the world??, meaning ?What's new?? or ?What's going on??. The more terse and humorous way of asking these questions would be ? State-p??. Another way of phrasing the first question under sense 1 would be ?state-p latest hack??.
State (n.) Information being maintained in non-permanent memory (electronic or human).
State () How something is; its configuration, attributes, condition, or information content.
The state of a system is usually temporary (i.e. it changes with time) and volatile (i.e. it will be lost or reset to some initial state if the system is switched off).
A state may be considered to be a point in some space of all possible states. A simple example is a light, which is either on or off. A complex example is the electrical activation in a human brain while solving a problem.
In computing and related fields, states, as in the light example, are often modelled as being discrete (rather than continuous) and the transition from one state to another is considered to be instantaneous. Another (related) property of a system is the number of possible states it may exhibit.
This may be finite or infinite. A common model for a system with a finite number of discrete state is a finite state machine. [{Jargon File] (1996-10-13)
State () Condition of persons. This word has various acceptations. If we inquire into its origin, it will be found to come from the Latin status, which is derived from the verb stare, sto, whence has been made statio, which signifies the place where a person is located, stat, to fulfill the obligations which are imposed upon him.
State () State is that quality which belongs to a person in society, and which secures to, and imposes upon him different rights and duties in consequence of the difference of that quality.
State () Although all men come from the hands of nature upon an equality, yet there are among them marked differences. It is from nature that come the distinctions of the sexes, fathers and children, of age and youth, &c.
State () The civil or municipal laws of each people, have added to these natural qualities, distinctions which are purely civil and arbitrary, founded on the manners of the people, or in the will of the legislature. Such are the differences, which these laws have established between citizens and aliens, between magistrates and subjects, and between freemen and slaves; and those which exist in some countries between nobles and plebeians, which differences are either unknown or contrary to natural law.
State () Although these latter distinctions are more particularly subject to the civil or municipal law, because to it they owe their origin, it nevertheless extends its authority over the natural qualities, not to destroy or to weaken them, but to confirm them and to render them more inviolable by positive rules and by certain maxims. This union of the civil or municipal and natural law, form among men a third species of differences which may be called mixed, because they participate of both, and derive their principles from nature and the perfection of the law; for example, infancy or the privileges which belong to it, have their foundation in natural law; but the age and the term of these prerogatives are determined by the civil or municipal law.
State () Three sorts of different qualities which form the state or condition of men may then be distinguished: those which are purely natural, those purely civil, and those which are composed of the natural and civil or municipal law. Vide 3 Bl. Com. 396; 1 Toull. n. 170, 171; Civil State.
State (), Government. This word is used in various senses. In its most enlarged sense, it signifies a self-sufficient body of persons united together in one community for the defence of their rights, and to do right and justice to foreigners. In this sense, the state means the whole people united into one body politic; (q.v.) and the state, and the people of the state, are equivalent expressions. 1 Pet. Cond. Rep. 37 to 39; 3 Dall. 93; 2 Dall. 425; Wilson's Lect. 120; Dane's Appx. Sec. 50, p. 63 1 Story, Const. Sec. 361. In a more limited sense, the word `state' expresses merely the positive or actual organization of the legislative, or judicial powers; thus the actual government of the state is designated by the name of the state; hence the expression, the state has passed such a law, or prohibited such an act. State Also means the section of territory occupied by a state, as the state of Pennsylvania.
State () By the word state is also meant, more particularly, one of the commonwealths which form the United States of America. The constitution of the United States makes the following provisions in relation to the states.
State () Art. 1, s. 9, Sec. 5. No tax or duty shall be laid on articles exported from any state. No preference shall be given by any regulation of commerce or revenue to the ports of one state over those of another, nor shall vessels bound to or from one state be obliged to enter, clear, or pay duties in another.
State () -Sec. 6. No money shall be drawn from the treasury but in consequence of appropriations made by law; and a regular statement and account of the receipts and expenditures of all public money shall be published from time to time.
State () -Sec. 7. No title of nobility shall be granted by the United States, and no person holding any office of profit or trust under them shall, without the consent of congress, accept of any present, emolument, office, or title of any kind whatever, from, any king, prince, or foreign state.
State () -Art. 1, s. 10, Sec. 1. No state shall enter into any treaty, alliance, or confederation; grant letters of marque and reprisal; coin money; emit bills of credit; make anything but gold and silver coin a tender in payments of debts; pass any bill of attainder, ex-post-facto, or law impairing the obligation of contracts; or grant any title of nobility.
State () -Sec. 2. No state shall, without the consent of congress, lay any imposts or duties on imports or exports, except what may be absolutely necessary for executing its inspection laws; and the net produce of all duties and imposts laid by any state on imports or exports shall be for the use of the treasury of the United States, and all such laws shall be subject to the revision and control of congress. No state, shall, without the consent of congress, lay any duty on tonnage, keep troops or ships of war in time of peace, enter into any agreement or compact with another state, or with a foreign power, or engage in war, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent danger as will not admit of delay.
State () The district of Columbia and the territorial districts of the United States, are not states within the meaning of the constitution and of the judiciary act, so as to enable a citizen thereof to sue a citizen of one of the states in the federal courts. 2 Cranch, 445; 1 Wheat. 91.
State () The several states composing the United States are sovereign and independent, in all things not surrendered to the national government by the constitution, and are considered, on general principles, by each other as foreign states, yet their mutual relations are rather those of domestic independence, than of foreign alienation. 7 Cranch, 481; 3 Wheat. 324; 1 Greenl. Ev. Sec. 489, 504. Vide, generally, Mr. Madison's report in the legislature of Virginia, January, 1800; 1 Story's Com. on Const. Sec. 208; 1 Kent, Com. 189, note b; Grotius, B. 1, c. 1, s. 14; Id. B. 3, c. 3, s. 2; Burlamaqui, vol. 2, pt. 1, c. 4, s. 9; Vattel, B. 1, c. 1; 1 Toull. n. 202, note 1 Nation; Cicer. de Repub. 1. 1, s. 25.
Statecraft (n.) The art of conducting state affairs; state management; statesmanship.
Stated (a.) Settled; established; fixed.
He is capable of corruption who receives more than what is the stated and unquestionable fee of his office. -- Addison.
Stated (a.) Recurring at regular time; not occasional; as, stated preaching; stated business hours.
Stated (a.) Declared as fact; explicitly stated [syn: declared, stated].
Statedly (adv.) At stated times; regularly.
Stateful (a.) Full of state; stately. [Obs.] "A stateful silence." -- Marston.
Statehood (n.) The condition of being a State; as, a territory seeking Statehood.
Statehouse (n.) The building in which a State legislature holds its sessions; a State capitol. [U. S.]
Statehouse (n.) A government building in which a state legislature meets.
Stateless (a.) Without state or pomp.
Stateless (a.) Without nationality or citizenship; "stateless persons" [syn: homeless, stateless].
Stateless, () A stateless server is one which treats each request as an independent transaction, unrelated to any previous request.
This simplifies the server design because it does not need to allocate storage to deal with conversations in progress or worry about freeing it if a client dies in mid-transaction.
A disadvantage is that it may be necessary to include more information in each request and this extra information will need to be interpreted by the server each time.
An example of a stateless server is a web server.
These take in requests ({URLs) which completely specify the required document and do not require any context or memory of previous requests.
Contrast this with a traditional FTP server which conducts an interactive session with the user. A request to the server for a file can assume that the user has been authenticated and that the current directory and transfer mode have been set.
Statelily (adv.) In a stately manner.
Stateliness (n.) The quality or state of being stately.
For stateliness and majesty, what is comparable to a horse? -- Dr. H. More.
Stateliness (n.) An elaborate manner of doing something; "she served coffee with great stateliness".
Stateliness (n.) Impressiveness in scale or proportion [syn: stateliness, majesty, loftiness].
Stately (adv.) Majestically; loftily. -- Milton.
Stately (a.) Evincing state or dignity; lofty; majestic; grand; as, statelymanners; a stately gait. "The stately homes of England!" --Mrs. Hemans. "Filled with stately temples." -- Prescott.
Here is a silly stately style indeed! -- Shak.
Syn: Lofty; dignified; majestic; grand; august; magnificent.
Stately (a.) Impressive in appearance; "a baronial mansion"; "an imposing residence"; "a noble tree"; "severe-looking policemen sat astride noble horses"; "stately columns" [syn: baronial, imposing, noble, stately].
Stately (a.) Of size and dignity suggestive of a statue [syn: stately, statuesque].
Stately (a.) Refined or imposing in manner or appearance; befitting a royal court; "a courtly gentleman" [syn: courtly, formal, stately].
Statement (n.) The act of stating, reciting, or presenting, orally or in paper; as, to interrupt a speaker in the statement of his case.
Statement (n.) That which is stated; a formal embodiment in language of facts or opinions; a narrative; a recital. "Admirable perspicuity of statement." -- Brougham.
Statement (n.) A message that is stated or declared; a communication (oral or written) setting forth particulars or facts etc; "according to his statement he was in London on that day".
Statement (n.) A fact or assertion offered as evidence that something is true; "it was a strong argument that his hypothesis was true" [syn: argument, statement].
Statement (n.) (Music) The presentation of a musical theme; "the initial statement of the sonata".
Statement (n.) A nonverbal message; "a Cadillac makes a statement about who you are"; "his tantrums are a statement of his need for attention".
Statement (n.) The act of affirming or asserting or stating something [syn: affirmation, assertion, statement].
Statement (n.) (Computer science) A line of code written as part of a computer program [syn: instruction, command, statement, program line].
Statement (n.) A document showing credits and debits [syn: statement, financial statement].
Statement, () A single instruction in a computer program written in a procedural language. Typical examples are an assignment statement, an if statement (conditional), a loop statement ("while", "for", "repeat", "until", etc.), a procedure call, a procedure exit, function return statement, switch statement or goto statement.
In many languages, one or more simple statements can be executed sequentially as a compound statement, e.g. bracketed between "begin" and "end" or "{" and "" which can then appear in place of a simple statement in an "if" or loop.
Each statement in a high-level language will typically be translated into several machine code instructions by a compiler or, alternatively, executed by an interpreter. (2009-10-23)
Statement, () pleading and in practice. In the courts of Pennsylvania, by the act to regulate arbitrations and proceedings in courts of justice, passed March 21, 1806, 4 Smith's Laws of Penn. 828, it is enacted, "that in all cases where a suit may be brought in any court of record for the recovery of any debt founded on a verbal promise, book account, note, bond, penal or single bill, or all or any of them, and which from the amount thereof may not be cognizable before a justice of the peace, it shall be the duty of the plaintiff, either by himself, his agent or attorney, to file in the office of the prothonotary a statement of his, her or their demand, on or before the third day of the term to which the process issued is returnable, particularly specifying the date of the promise, book account, note, bond, penal or single bill or all or any of them, on which the demand is founded, and the whole amount which he, she, or they believe is justly due to him, her or them from the defendant."
Statement, () This statement stands in the place of a declaration, and is not restricted to any particular form; 3 Serg. & Rawle, 406; it is an immethodical declaration, stating in substance the time of the contract, the sum, and on what founded, with (what is an important principle in a statement, 6 Serg. & Rawle, 21,) a certificate of the belief of the plaintiff or his agent, of what is really due. Serg. & Rawle, 28. See 6 Serg. & Rawle, 53; 8 Serg. & Rawle, 567; 2 Serg. & Rawle, 537; 2 Browne's R. 40; 8 Serg. & R. 316.
Statemonger (n.) One versed in politics, or one who dabbles in state affairs.
State prison () See under State, n.
State prison (n.) A prison maintained by a state of the U.S.
Stater (n.) One who states.
Stater (n.) (Gr. Antiq.) The principal gold coin of ancient Greece. It varied much in value, the stater best known at Athens being worth about [pounds]1 2s., or about $5.35 (in 1890 value). The Attic silver tetradrachm was in later times called stater.
Stater (n.) Any of the various silver or gold coins of ancient Greece.
Stater (n.) A resident of a particular state or group of states; "Keystone stater"; "farm staters".
Stater, () Greek word rendered "piece of money" (Matt. 17:27, A.V.; and "shekel" in R.V.). It was equal to two didrachmas ("tribute money," 17:24), or four drachmas, and to about 2s. 6d. of our money. (See SHEKEL.)
Stateroom (n.) A magnificent room in a place or great house.
Stateroom (n.) A small apartment for lodging or sleeping in the cabin, or on the deck, of a vessel; also, a somewhat similar apartment in a railway sleeping car.
Stateroom (n.) A guest cabin.
States-general (n.) In France, before the Revolution, the assembly of the three orders of the kingdom, namely, the clergy, the nobility, and the third estate, or commonalty.
States-general (n.) In the Netherlands, the legislative body, composed of two chambers.
Statesmen (n. pl. ) of Statesman.
Statesman (n.) A man versed in public affairs and in the principles and art of government; especially, one eminent for political abilities.
The minds of some of our statesmen, like the pupil of the human eye, contract themselves the more, the stronger light there is shed upon them. -- Moore.
Statesman (n.) One occupied with the affairs of government, and influental in shaping its policy.
Statesman (n.) A small landholder. [Prov. Eng.] -- Halliwell.
Satesman (n.) A man who is a respected leader in national or international affairs [syn: statesman, solon, national leader].
Statesman (n.) [ C ] (pl. - men) (Approving) （尤指具有遠見卓識而受人尊敬的）政治家 An experienced politician, especially one who is respected for making good judgments.
Statesmanlike (a.) Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman.
Statesmanlike (a.) Marked by the qualities of or befitting a statesman; "a man of statesmanlike judgment"; "a statesmanlike solution of the present perplexities" -- V.L.Parrington [syn: statesmanlike, statesmanly] [ant: unstatesmanlike].
Statesmanly (a.) Becoming a statesman.
Statesmanly (a.) Marked by the qualities of or befitting a statesman; "a man of statesmanlike judgment"; "a statesmanlike solution of the present perplexities" -- V.L.Parrington [syn: statesmanlike, statesmanly] [ant: unstatesmanlike].
Statesmanship (n.) The qualifications, duties, or employments of a statesman.
Statesmanship (n.) Wisdom in the management of public affairs [syn: statesmanship, statecraft, diplomacy].
Stateswomen (n. pl. ) of Stateswoman.
Stateswoman (n.) A woman concerned in public affairs.
A rare stateswoman; I admire her bearing. -- B. Jonson.
Stateswoman (n.) A woman statesman.
Stathmograph (n.) A contrivance for recording the speed of a railway train. -- Knight. Static
Static (a.) Alt. of Statical.
Statical (a.) Resting; acting by mere weight without motion; as, statical pressure; static objects.
Statical (a.) Pertaining to bodies at rest or in equilibrium.
Static electricity, Statical electricity. See the Note under Electricity, 1.
Statical moment. See under Moment.
Statically (adv.) In a statical manner.
Compare: Mechanics
Mechanics (n.) That science, or branch of applied mathematics, which treats of the action of forces on bodies.
Note: That part of mechanics which considers the action of forces in producing rest or equilibrium is called statics; that which relates to such action in producing motion is called dynamics. The term mechanics includes the action of forces on all bodies, whether solid, liquid, or gaseous. It is sometimes, however, and formerly was often, used distinctively of solid bodies only: The mechanics of liquid bodies is called also hydrostatics, or hydrodynamics, according as the laws of rest or of motion are considered. The mechanics of gaseous bodies is called also pneumatics. The mechanics of fluids in motion, with special reference to the methods of obtaining from them useful results, constitutes hydraulics.
Animal mechanics (Physiol.), That portion of physiology which has for its object the investigation of the laws of equilibrium and motion in the animal body. The most important mechanical principle is that of the lever, the bones forming the arms of the levers, the contractile muscles the power, the joints the fulcra or points of support, while the weight of the body or of the individual limbs constitutes the weight or resistance.
Applied mechanics, The principles of abstract mechanics applied to human art; also, the practical application of the laws of matter and motion to the construction of machines and structures of all kinds.
Orbital mechanics, The principles governing the motion of bodies in orbit around other bodies under gravitational influence, such as artificial Earth satellites.
Mechanics (n.) The branch of physics concerned with the motion of bodies in a frame of reference.
Mechanics (n.) The technical aspects of doing something; "a mechanism of social control"; "mechanisms of communication"; "the mechanics of prose style" [syn: mechanism, mechanics].
Statics (n.) That branch of mechanics which treats of the equilibrium of forces, or relates to bodies as held at rest by the forces acting on them; -- distinguished from dynamics.
Social statics, The study of the conditions which concern the existence and permanence of the social state.
Statics (n.) The branch of mechanics concerned with forces in equilibrium.
Stating (n.) The act of one who states anything; statement; as, the statingof one's opinions.
Station (n.) The act of standing; also, attitude or pose in standing; posture. [R.]
A station like the herald, Mercury. -- Shak.
Their manner was to stand at prayer, whereupon their meetings unto that purpose . . . had the names of stations given them. -- Hooker.
Station (n.) A state of standing or rest; equilibrium. [Obs.]
All progression is performed by drawing on or impelling forward some part which was before in station, or at quiet. -- Sir T. Browne.
Station (n.) The spot or place where anything stands, especially where a person or thing habitually stands, or is appointed to remain for a time; as, the station of a sentinel. Specifically:
Station (n.) A regular stopping place in a stage road or route; a place where railroad trains regularly come to a stand, for the convenience of passengers, taking in fuel, moving freight, etc.
Station (n.) The headquarters of the police force of any precinct.
Station (n.) The place at which an instrument is planted, or observations are made, as in surveying.
Station (n.) (Biol.) The particular place, or kind of situation, in which a species naturally occurs; a habitat.
Station (n.) (Naut.) A place to which ships may resort, and where they may anchor safely.
Station (n.) A place or region to which a government ship or fleet is assigned for duty.
Station (n.) (Mil.) A place calculated for the rendezvous of troops, or for the distribution of them; also, a spot well adapted for offensive measures. -- Wilhelm (Mil. Dict.).
Station (n.) (Mining) An enlargement in a shaft or galley, used as a landing, or passing place, or for the accomodation of a pump, tank, etc.
Station (n.) Post assigned; office; the part or department of public duty which a person is appointed to perform; sphere of duty or occupation; employment.
By spending this day [Sunday] in religious exercises, we acquire new strength and resolution to perform God's will in our several stations the week following. -- R. Nelson.
Station (n.) Situation; position; location.
The fig and date -- why love they to remain In middle station, and an even plain? -- Prior.
Station (n.) State; rank; condition of life; social status.
The greater part have kept, I see, Their station. -- Milton.
They in France of the best rank and station. -- Shak.
Station (n.) (Eccl.) The fast of the fourth and sixth days of the week, Wednesday and Friday, in memory of the council which condemned Christ, and of his passion.
Station (n.) (Eccl.) (R. C. Ch.) A church in which the procession of the clergy halts on stated days to say stated prayers.
Station (n.) (Eccl.) One of the places at which ecclesiastical processions pause for the performance of an act of devotion; formerly, the tomb of a martyr, or some similarly consecrated spot; now, especially, one of those representations of the successive stages of our Lord's passion which are often placed round the naves of large churches and by the side of the way leading to sacred edifices or shrines, and which are visited in rotation, stated services being performed at each; -- called also Station of the cross. -- Fairholt.
Station (n.) In Australia, a sheep run or cattle run, together with the buildings belonging to it; also, the homestead and buildings belonging to such a run.
Station bill. (Naut.) Same as Quarter bill, under Quarter.
Station house. (a) The house serving for the headquarters of the police assigned to a certain district, and as a place of temporary confinement.
Station house. (b) The house used as a shelter at a railway station.
Station master, One who has charge of a station, esp. of a railway station.
Station pointer (Surv.), An instrument for locating on a chart the position of a place from which the angles subtended by three distant objects, whose positions are known, have been observed.
Station staff (Surv.), An instrument for taking angles in surveying. -- Craig.
Syn: Station, Depot.
Usage: In the United States, a stopping place on a railway for passengers and freight is commonly called a depot: but to a considerable extent in official use, and in common speech, the more appropriate name, station, has been adopted.
Stationed (imp. & p. p.) of Station.
Stationing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Station.
Station (v. t.) To place; to set; to appoint or assign to the occupation of a post, place, or office; as, to station troops on the right of an army; to station a sentinel on a rampart; to station ships on the coasts of Africa.
He gained the brow of the hill, where the English phalanx was stationed. -- Lyttelton.
Station (n.) A facility equipped with special equipment and personnel for a particular purpose; "he started looking for a gas station"; "the train pulled into the station".
Station (n.) Proper or designated social situation; "he overstepped his place"; "the responsibilities of a man in his station"; "married above her station" [syn: place, station].
Station (n.) (Nautical) The location to which a ship or fleet is assigned for duty.
Station (n.) The position where someone (as a guard or sentry) stands or is assigned to stand; "a soldier manned the entrance post"; "a sentry station" [syn: post, station].
Station (n.) The frequency assigned to a broadcasting station.
Station (v.) Assign to a station [syn: station, post, send, place].
Station, () civil law. A place where ships may ride in safety. Dig. 49, 12, 1, 13; id. 50, 15, 59.
The Stations of the Cross (n.) (pl.) 耶穌受難像（共14幅圖畫，顯示耶穌基督生命最後日子裡發生的不同事情，這些圖畫放在許多羅馬天主教教堂內的牆上）A series of 14 pictures showing events from the last days of the life of Jesus Christ that are put on the walls inside many Roman Catholic churches.
Stational (a.) Of or pertaining to a station. [R.]
Stationariness (n.) The quality or state of being stationary; fixity.
Stationariness (n.) Remaining in place [syn: stationariness, immobility, fixedness].
Stationary (a.) 不動的；不增減的；定居的；常備軍的 Not moving; not appearing to move; stable; fixed.
Charles Wesley, who is a more stationary man, does not believe the story. -- Southey.
Stationary (a.) Not improving or getting worse; not growing wiser, greater, better, more excellent, or the contrary.
Stationary (a.) Appearing to be at rest, because moving in the line of vision; not progressive or retrograde, as a planet.
Stationary air (Physiol.), The air which under ordinary circumstances does not leave the lungs in respiration.
Stationary engine. (a) A steam engine that is permanently placed, in distinction from a portable engine, locomotive, marine engine, etc. Specifically:
Stationary engine. (b) A factory engine, in distinction from a blowing, pumping, or other kind of engine which is also permanently placed.
-ries (n. pl. ) of Stationary.
Stationary (n.) 不動的人（物）；常備軍 One who, or that which, is stationary, as a planet when apparently it has neither progressive nor retrograde motion. -- Holland.
Stationary (a.) Standing still; "the car remained stationary with the engine running".
Stationary (a.) Not capable of being moved; "stationary machinery".
Stationary (a.) 靜止的；不變的；穩定的 Not moving, or not changing.
// A stationary car/ train.
// The traffic got slower and slower until it was stationary.
// The rate of inflation has been stationary for several months.
Stationer (a.) A bookseller or publisher; -- formerly so called from his occupying a stand, or station, in the market place or elsewhere. [Obs.] -- Dryden.
Stationer (a.) One who sells paper, pens, quills, inkstands, pencils, blank books, and other articles used in writing.
Stationer (n.) A merchant who sells writing materials and office supplies [syn: stationer, stationery seller].
Stationery (n.) The articles usually sold by stationers, as paper, pens, ink, quills, blank books, etc.
Stationery (a.) Belonging to, or sold by, a stationer.
Stationery (n.) Paper cut to an appropriate size for writing letters; usually with matching envelopes [syn: stationery, letter paper].
Statism (n.) The art of governing a state; statecraft; policy. [Obs.]
The enemies of God . . . call our religion statism. -- South.
Statist (n.) A statesman; a politician; one skilled in government. [Obs.]
Statists indeed, And lovers of their country. -- Milton.
Statist (n.) A statistician. -- Fawcett. Statistic
Statistic (a.) Alt. of Statistical
Statistical (a.) Of or pertaining to statistics; as, statistical knowledge, statistical tabulation.
Statistic (n.) A datum that can be represented numerically.
Statistically (adv.) In the way of statistics.
Statistically (adv.) With respect to statistics; "this is statistically impossible".
Statistician (n.) One versed in statistics; one who collects and classifies facts for statistics.
Statistician (n.) A mathematician who specializes in statistics [syn: statistician, mathematical statistician].
Statistician (n.) Someone versed in the collection and interpretation of numerical data (especially someone who uses statistics to calculate insurance premiums) [syn: statistician, actuary].
Statistics (n.) The science which has to do with the collection, classification, and analysis of facts of a numerical nature regarding any topic. Specifically: The science dealing with collection, tabulation, and analysis of facts respecting the condition of the people in a state.
Note: [In this sense grammatically singular.]
Statistics (n.) pl. Classified facts of a numerical nature regarding any topic. Specifically:
Statistics (n.) (a) Numerical facts respecting the condition of the people in a state, their health, their longevity, domestic economy, arts, property, and political strength, their resources, the state of the country, etc., or respecting any particular class or interest; especially, those facts which can be stated in numbers, or in tables of numbers, or in any tabular and classified arrangement.
Statistics (n.) (b) (Sport) Numerical facts regarding the performance of athletes or athletic teams, such as winning percentages, numbers of games won or lost in a season, batting averages (for baseball players), total yards gained (for football players). The creation and classification of such numbers is limited only by the imagination of those wishing to describe athletic performance numerically.
Syn: stats.
Statistics (n.) The branch of mathematics which studies methods for the calculation of probabilities.
Statistics (n.) A branch of applied mathematics concerned with the collection and interpretation of quantitative data and the use of probability theory to estimate population parameters.
Statistics, () The practice, study or result of the application of mathematical functions to collections of data in order to summarise or extrapolate that data.
The subject of statistics can be divided into descriptive statistics - describing data, and analytical statistics - drawing conclusions from data. (1997-07-16)
Statistology (n.) See Statistics, 2.
Stative (a.) (Mil.) Of or pertaining to a fixed camp, or military posts or quarters. [Obs. or R.]
Stative (a.) ( Used of verbs (e.g. `be' or `own') And most participial adjectives) expressing existence or a state rather than an action [ant: active, dynamic].
Statoblast (n.) (Zool.) One of a peculiar kind of internal buds, or germs, produced in the interior of certain Bryozoa and sponges, especially in the fresh-water species; -- also called winter buds.
Note: They are protected by a firm covering, and are usually destined to perpetuate the species during the winter season. They burst open and develop in the spring. In some fresh-water sponges they serve to preserve the species during the dry season. See Illust. under Phylactolaemata.
Statocracy (n.) Government by the state, or by political power, in distinction from government by ecclesiastical power. [R.] -- O. A. Brownson.
Statua (n.) A statue. [Obs.]
They spake not a word; But, like dumb statuas or breathing stones, Gazed each on other. -- Shak.
Statuaries (n. pl. ) of Statuary.
Statuary (n.) One who practices the art of making statues.
On other occasions the statuaries took their subjects from the poets. -- Addison.
Statuary (n.) The art of carving statues or images as representatives of real persons or things; a branch of sculpture. -- Sir W. Temple.
Statuary (n.) A collection of statues; statues, collectively.
Statuary (a.) Of or relating to or suitable for statues.
Statuary (n.) Statues collectively.
Statue (n.) 雕像，塑像 [C] The likeness of a living being sculptured or modeled in some solid substance, as marble, bronze, or wax; an image; as, a statue of Hercules, or of a lion.
I will raise her statue in pure gold. -- Shak.
Statue (n.) A portrait. [Obs.] -- Massinger.
Statued (imp. & p. p.) of Statue.