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State can be a verb or a noun.

state used as a verb:

  1. To declare to be a fact.
    "He stated that he was willing to help."
  2. To make known.
    "State your intentions."

Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →

state used as a noun:

  1. Any sovereign polity. A government.
  2. A political division of a federation retaining a degree of autonomy, for example one of the fifty United States. See also Province.
  3. A condition.
    "A state of being."
  4. Pomp, ceremony, or dignity.
    "The President's body will lie in state at the Capitol."
  5. 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."
  6. The set of all parameters relevant to a computation.
    "The state here includes a set containing all names seen so far."
  7. The values of all parameters at some point in a computation.
    "A debugger can show the state of a program at any breakpoint."
  8. A society larger than a tribe. A society large enough to form a state in the sense of a government.
  9. The physical property of matter as solid, liquid, gas or plasma

Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →

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As detailed above, 'state' can be a verb or a noun. Here are some examples of its usage:
  1. Verb usage: He stated that he was willing to help.
  2. Verb usage: State your intentions.
  3. Noun usage: A state of being.
  4. Noun usage: A state of emergency.
  5. Noun usage: The President's body will lie in state at the Capitol.
  6. Noun usage: In the fetch state, the address of the next instruction is placed on the address bus.
  7. Noun usage: The state here includes a set containing all names seen so far.
  8. Noun usage: A debugger can show the state of a program at any breakpoint.

Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of state are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of state, and guess at its most common usage.

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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.

The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.

Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.

Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.

Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).

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