different between civil vs state
civil
English
Etymology
From Middle English cyvyl, civil, borrowed from Old French civil, from Latin c?v?lis (“relating to a citizen”), from c?vis (“citizen”). Cognate with Old English h?wen (“household”), h?r?den (“family”). More at hind; hird. Doublet of civic.
Pronunciation
- enPR: ?s?v-?l IPA(key): /?s?v.?l/
- Rhymes: -?v?l
Adjective
civil (comparative more civil, superlative most civil)
- (not comparable) Having to do with people and government office as opposed to the military or religion.
- She went into civil service because she wanted to help the people.
- (comparable) Behaving in a reasonable or polite manner.
- It was very civil of him to stop the argument.
- Antonyms: anti-civil, impolite, inconsiderate, noncivil, rude
- (law) Relating to private relations among citizens, as opposed to criminal matters.
- a civil case
- Secular.
Derived terms
Related terms
- civic
- civilization
Translations
References
- civil at OneLook Dictionary Search
- civil in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
- civil in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- clivi
Asturian
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin c?v?lis.
Adjective
civil (epicene, plural civiles)
- civil, civilian
Derived terms
- civilización
- guerra civil
- xunión civil
References
- "civil" in Diccionariu de la Llingua Asturiana
Catalan
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin c?v?lis.
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Valencian) IPA(key): /si?vil/
- (Central) IPA(key): /si?bil/
Adjective
civil (masculine and feminine plural civils)
- civil
- civilian
Antonyms
- (polite): incivil
- (civilian): militar
Derived terms
Related terms
- civilitat
Noun
civil m or f (plural civils)
- a member of the guardia civil
Further reading
- “civil” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Danish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin c?v?lis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /si?vi?l/
Adjective
civil
- civil (all senses), civilian
Inflection
Derived terms
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin c?v?lis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /si.vil/
Adjective
civil (feminine singular civile, masculine plural civils, feminine plural civiles)
- civil (war, marriage etc.)
- (politics) lay
- civilian
- (literary) civil, courteous, polite
Derived terms
Related terms
- civique
- cité
Noun
civil m (plural civils, feminine civile)
- civilian
Further reading
- “civil” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Galician
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin c?v?lis.
Adjective
civil m or f (plural civís)
- civil, civilian
Derived terms
- guerra civil
- unión civil
References
- "civil" in Real Academia Galega
Interlingua
Adjective
civil (not comparable)
- civil, civilian (not associated with the armed forces)
Norman
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin c?v?lis, from c?vis (“citizen”), from Proto-Indo-European *?ey- (“to lie down, settle; home, family; love; beloved”).
Adjective
civil m
- (Jersey) polite
- (Jersey) civil
Derived terms
- dgèrre civile (“civil war”)
Occitan
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin c?v?lis.
Adjective
civil m (feminine singular civila, masculine plural civils, feminine plural civilas)
- civil
Derived terms
- guèrra civila f
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin c?v?lis (“civil”), from c?vis (“citizen”). Doublet of cível.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /si?viw/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /si?vi?/
- Hyphenation: ci?vil
- (Brazil) Rhymes: -iw
- (Portugal) Rhymes: -i?
Adjective
civil m or f (plural civis, comparable)
- civil; civilian (not relating to the military or clergy)
- civic (relating to citizens)
- Synonym: cívico
- Antonym: militar
- (law) relating to civil law
- Synonym: cível
- Antonym: criminal
- occurring between the inhabitants of the same country
- civil (behaving in a reasonable or polite manner)
- Synonyms: civilizado, cortês, educado, polido
- Antonyms: deseducado, grosseiro, deselegante, feio
Derived terms
- casado no civil
- casar no civil
- guerra civil
Noun
civil m, f (plural civis)
- civilian, non-combatant (person who is not a member of the military, police or belligerent group)
Derived terms
Romanian
Alternative forms
- ?ivil (archaic and popular)
Etymology
Borrowed from French civil, Latin civilis.
Adjective
civil m or n (feminine singular civil?, masculine plural civili, feminine and neuter plural civile)
- civil
Declension
Noun
civil m (plural civili)
- civilian
Declension
Related terms
- civilitate
- civiliza
- civiliza?ie
- cetate
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
Borrowed from German Zivil, from French civil, from Latin c?v?lis (“civic, civil”), from c?vis (“citizen”).
Noun
cìv?l m (Cyrillic spelling ?????)
- civilian (not related to the military armed forces)
Declension
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin c?v?lis (“civil, civic”), from c?vis (“citizen”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Spain) /?i?bil/, [?i???il]
- IPA(key): (Latin America) /si?bil/, [si???il]
- Homophone: sibil (non-Castilian dialects)
- Rhymes: -il
Adjective
civil (plural civiles) (superlative civilísimo)
- civil (all senses)
Derived terms
Related terms
Swedish
Adjective
civil
- civil; having to do with people and organizations outside military or police, sometimes also outside of other team-based activities, such as a professional sports team
Declension
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state
English
Etymology
Middle English (as a noun); adopted c. 1200 from both Old French estat and Latin status (“manner of standing, attitude, position, carriage, manner, dress, apparel; and other senses”), from stare (“to stand”). Doublet of estate and status. The sense of "polity" develops in the 14th century. Compare French être, Greek ???? (stéo), Italian stare, Portuguese estar, Romanian sta, and Spanish estar.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /ste?t/
- Rhymes: -e?t
Noun
state (plural states)
- A condition; a set of circumstances applying at any given time.
- (physics) A complete description of a system, consisting of parameters that determine all properties of the system.
- 1977, J. B. Sykes and John Stewart Bell, translating Lev Landau and Evgeny Lifshitz, Course of Theoretical Physics Vol. 3: Quantum Mechanics: Non-relativistic Theory, p.28:
- States in which the energy has definite values are called stationary states of a system; they are described by wave functions ?n which are the eigenfunctions of the Hamiltonian operator, i.e. which satisfy the equation ??n = En?n, where En are the eigenvalues of the energy.
- 1977, J. B. Sykes and John Stewart Bell, translating Lev Landau and Evgeny Lifshitz, Course of Theoretical Physics Vol. 3: Quantum Mechanics: Non-relativistic Theory, p.28:
- (computing) The stable condition of a processor during a particular clock cycle.
- (computing) The set of all parameters relevant to a computation.
- (computing) The values of all parameters at some point in a computation.
- (sciences) The physical property of matter as solid, liquid, gas or plasma.
- (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.
- (physics) A complete description of a system, consisting of parameters that determine all properties of the system.
- High social standing or circumstance.
- Pomp, ceremony, or dignity.
- Rank; condition; quality.
- c. 1593, William Shakespeare, Richard III, [Act I, Scene iii]:
- And le?ned by that ?mall, God I be?eech him, / Thy honor, ?tate, and ?eate, is due to me.
- c. 1593, William Shakespeare, Richard III, [Act I, Scene iii]:
- Condition of prosperity or grandeur; wealthy or prosperous circumstances; social importance.
- A chair with a canopy above it, often standing on a dais; a seat of dignity; also, the canopy itself.
- (obsolete) A great person, a dignitary; a lord or prince.
- 1644, John Milton, Aeropagitica, page 1:
- They who to States and Governours of the Commonwealth direct their Speech, High Court of Parlament, or wanting ?uch acce??e in a private condition, write that which they fore?ee may advance the publick good?; I ?uppo?e them as at the beginning of no meane endeavour, not a little alter’d and mov’d inwardly in their mindes […]
- 1644, John Milton, Aeropagitica, page 1:
- (obsolete) Estate, possession.
- Pomp, ceremony, or dignity.
- A polity.
- Any sovereign polity; a national or city-state government.
- a. 1949, Albert Einstein, as quoted by Virgil Henshaw in Albert Einstein: Philosopher Scientist (1949)
- Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.
- a. 1949, Albert Einstein, as quoted by Virgil Henshaw in Albert Einstein: Philosopher Scientist (1949)
- A political division of a federation retaining a notable degree of autonomy, as in the United States, Germany, or Australia.
- (obsolete) A form of government other than a monarchy.
- (anthropology) A society larger than a tribe. A society large enough to form a state in the sense of a government.
- Any sovereign polity; a national or city-state government.
- (mathematics, stochastic processes) An element of the range of the random variables that define a random process.
- (grammar, semantics) The lexical aspect (aktionsart) of verbs or predicates that do not change over time.
- Antonym: occurrence
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Pages starting with “state”.
Translations
Verb
state (third-person singular simple present states, present participle stating, simple past and past participle stated)
- (transitive) To declare to be a fact.
- Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations. It is easily earned repetition to state that Josephine St. Auban's was a presence not to be concealed.
- (transitive) To make known.
Usage notes
State is stronger or more definitive than say. It is used to communicate an absence of reasonable doubt and to emphasize the factual or truthful nature of the communication.
Synonyms
- See Thesaurus:communicate
Translations
Adjective
state (comparative more state, superlative most state)
- (obsolete) Stately.
Related terms
- estate
- statistics
- status
- State
See also
- department
- province
Further reading
- state on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
References
- state at OneLook Dictionary Search
- state in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
- state in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- state in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- Satet, Testa, Tetas, aetts, atest, taste, teats, testa
Afrikaans
Noun
state
- plural of staat
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?sta.te/
- Rhymes: -ate
- Hyphenation: stà?te
Etymology 1
Apheretic form of estate.
Noun
state f (plural stati)
- (Tuscany) Alternative form of estate
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Verb
state
- inflection of stare:
- second-person plural present indicative
- second-person plural imperative
Etymology 3
See the etymology of the main entry.
Participle
state
- feminine plural of stato
Anagrams
- setta, testa
References
- state in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti
Latin
Verb
st?te
- second-person plural present active imperative of st?
Participle
state
- vocative masculine singular of status
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