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English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /stæt/
• Rhymes: -æt

Etymology 1

From Latin statim (“immediately”).

Adverb

stat (not comparable)

1. (medicine) Immediately; now.

Translations

Adjective

stat (not comparable)

1. (medicine) With no delay; at once.

   stat dose

Etymology 2

Abbreviation.

Noun

stat (plural stats)

1. (especially in plural) Abbreviation of statistics.

Verb

stat (third-person singular simple present stats, present participle statting, simple past and past participle statted)

1. (slang, role-playing games, transitive) To assign statistics to (a monster, etc. in a game).

   If you stat it, they will kill it.

Etymology 3

Abbreviation.

Noun

stat (plural stats)

1. (Canada, informal) A statutory public holiday (also as stat holiday)

Anagrams

• Tats, Tsat, tast, tats

Aromanian

Alternative forms

• statu

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Italian stato or Latin status.

Noun

stat n (plural staturi)

1. state, country

See also

• crat, duvleti, vãsilii, amirãrilji

Etymology 2

From Latin status. Compare Romanian stat.

Adjective

stat m (feminine statã)

1. (masculine singular past passive participle of stau used as an adjective) stayed, stopped, remained; stood
2. resided

Synonyms

• stãtut

Cornish

Pronunciation

• (Revived Middle Cornish) IPA^(key): [sta?t]
• (Revived Late Cornish) IPA^(key): [stæ?t]

Noun

stat m (plural statys or statow)

1. (politics) state, polity
2. situation, state, affair
3. estate

References

• Cornish-English Dictionary from Maga's Online Dictionary
• 2018, Akademi Kernewek Gerlyver Kernewek (FSS) Cornish Dictionary (SWF) (2018 edition, p.173)

Danish

Etymology

From Middle Low German stat, from Latin status.

Noun

stat c (singular definite staten, plural indefinite stater)

1. A state (polity).

Inflection

Derived terms

• delstat

Ladin

Etymology

From Latin st?tus.

Noun

stat m (plural stac)

1. A state.

Latin

Verb

stat

1. third-person singular present active indicative of st?

Maltese

Alternative forms

• istat (after the article)

Etymology

From Sicilian statu and/or Italian stato, both from Latin status.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sta?t/
• Homophone: stad

Noun

stat m (plural stati)

1. state (condition)
2. state, country, government

Derived terms

• Stati Uniti

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch stat, from Proto-West Germanic *stadi. The umlauted form st?de derives from Old Dutch stedi, a variant which hadn't lost the final -i.

Noun

stat f or m

1. place
2. position, station (of duty)
3. rank, status
4. space, room
5. city

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Alternative forms

• st?de (Flemish, Hollandic)

Descendants

• Dutch: stad, stee (bedstee)
  • Afrikaans: stad
• Limburgish: staad

Further reading

• “stat, stede”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “stat”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Middle Low German stat (“state, rank”), from Latin status (“fixed, set, regular”), perfect passive participle of sist? (“I cause to stand, set, place”), from Proto-Italic *sist? (“stand, place”), from Proto-Indo-European *stísteh?ti (“to be standing up, to be getting up”), from the root *steh?- (“to stand (up)”).

Noun

stat m (definite singular staten, indefinite plural stater, definite plural statene)

1. a state

Derived terms

References

• “stat” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle Low German stat, from Latin status.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /st??t/

Noun

stat m (definite singular staten, indefinite plural statar, definite plural statane)

1. a state, country

   Frankrike er ein av dei største statane i Europa.

   France is one of the largest countries of Europe.

2. (definite form) the government, authorities

   Eg har fått meg jobb i staten.

   I have got a job working for the government.

Derived terms

References

• “stat” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Dutch

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *stadi.

Noun

stat f

1. place, location
2. house, abode
3. town, inhabited place

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Alternative forms

• stedi

Descendants

• Middle Dutch: stat
  • Dutch: stad

Further reading

• “stat, stedi”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *stadi, from Proto-Germanic *stadiz.

Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *stéh?tis, an extension of *steh?- and, thus, related to stehen and Stuhl.

Noun

stat

1. A city; a town.
2. A site; a place; a spot.

Synonyms

• (city): burg

Descendants

• German: Stadt, Stätte
• Yiddish: ?????? (shtot)

References

• stat in Gerhard Köbler's 2006 Neuhochdeutsch-althochdeutsches Wörterbuch

Papiamentu

Etymology

From Dutch stad.

Noun

stat

1. city, town

Piedmontese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /stat/

Noun

stat m

1. state

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /stat/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Italian stato or Latin status.

Noun

stat n (plural state)

1. state, government

Synonyms

• ?ar?, guvern, regim

Etymology 2

Inherited from Latin st?tus.

Noun

stat n (plural state)

1. state, condition
2. situation, position
3. class; category; stature
4. list

Declension

Synonyms

• (condition, situation): condi?ie, situa?ie, pozi?ie
• (class): clas?
• (list): list?, tabel

Verb

stat

1. past participle of sta

See also

• stare

Swedish

Etymology

From Middle Low German stat, from Latin status.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /st??t/

Noun

stat c

1. A state; a nation.
2. A state; a government; collectively about the ruling hierarchy of a country.
3. A state; part of a federation.
4. (uncountable) A salary paid in kind, usually in combination with a small amount in cash, for agricultural workers abolished with the end of October 1945 (through a collective bargaining agreement). Formerly of wider use, for instance also for some civil servants.

Declension

Synonyms

• (in a federation): delstat, förbundsstat (chiefly about German states)

See also

nation, government

• förstatliga
• statlig
• statschef

salary

• statare

Anagrams

• satt

Tok Pisin

Verb

stat

1. A tense marker that shows that an action is beginning by preceding the verb

Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from French stade.

Noun

stat (definite accusative stat?, plural statlar)

1. stadium

Synonyms

• stadyum

English

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) enPR: t?l, IPA^(key): /t?l/, /t??/
• Rhymes: -?l

Etymology 1

From Middle English tellen (“to count, tell”), from Old English tellan (“to count, tell”), from Proto-Germanic *taljan?, *talzijan? (“to count, enumerate”), from Proto-Germanic *tal?, *tal? (“number, counting”), from Proto-Indo-European *dol- (“calculation, fraud”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian tälle (“to say; tell”), West Frisian telle (“to count”), West Frisian fertelle (“to tell, narrate”), Dutch tellen (“to count”), Low German tellen (“to count”), German zählen, Faroese telja. More at tale.

Verb

tell (third-person singular simple present tells, present participle telling, simple past and past participle told)

1. (transitive, archaic outside of idioms) To count, reckon, or enumerate.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.vii:

     And in his lap a masse of coyne he told, / And turned vpsidowne, to feede his eye / A couetous desire with his huge threasury.

   • 1875, Hugh MacMillan, The Sunday Magazine:

     Only He who made them can tell the number of the stars, and mark the place of each in the order of the one great dominant spiral.

2. (transitive) To narrate.
   • 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)

     Tell her you’re here.

3. (transitive) To convey by speech; to say.
4. (transitive) To instruct or inform.
   • 1611, Bible (King James Version), Genesis xii. 18

     Why didst thou not tell me that she was thy wife?
5. (transitive) To order; to direct, to say to someone.
   • 1909, H. G. Wells, Ann Veronica

     She said she hoped she had not distressed him by the course she had felt obliged to take, and he told her not to be a fool.

   • Stability was restored, but once the re-entry propulsion was activated, the crew was told to prepare to come home before the end of their only day in orbit.

6. (intransitive) To discern, notice, identify or distinguish.

   • Captain Edward Carlisle, soldier as he was, martinet as he was, felt a curious sensation of helplessness seize upon him as he met her steady gaze, her alluring smile; he could not tell what this prisoner might do.

7. (transitive) To reveal.

8. (intransitive) To be revealed.
   • 1990, Stephen Coonts, Under Siege, 1991 Pocket Books edition, ?ISBN, p.409:

     Cherry looks old, Mergenthaler told himself. His age is telling. Querulous — that's the word. He's become a whining, querulous old man absorbed with trivialities.

9. (intransitive) To have an effect, especially a noticeable one; to be apparent, to be demonstrated.
   • 1859 John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

     Opinion ought [… to give] merited honour to every one, whatever opinion he may hold […] keeping nothing back which tells, or can be supposed to tell, in their favour.
10. (transitive) To use (beads or similar objects) as an aid to prayer.
11. (intransitive, childish) To inform someone in authority about a wrongdoing.

    I saw you steal those sweets! I'm going to tell!

12. (authorship, intransitive) To reveal information in prose through outright expository statement -- contrasted with show

    Maria rewrote the section of her novel that talked about Meg and Sage's friendship to have less telling and more showing.

Usage notes

• In dialects, other past tense forms (besides told) may be found, including tald/tauld (Scotland), tawld (Devonshire), teld (Yorkshire, Devonshire), telled (Northern England, Scotland, and in nonstandard speech generally), telt (Scotland, Geordie), tole (AAVE, Southern US, and some dialects of England), toll (AAVE), tolt (AAVE).
• In older forms of English, when the pronoun thou was in active use, and verbs used -est for distinct second-person singular indicative forms, the verb tell had the form tellest, and had toldest for its past tense.
• Similarly, when the ending -eth was in active use for third-person singular present indicative forms, the form telleth was used.

Conjugation

Synonyms

• (enumerate): count, number; see also Thesaurus:count
• (narrate): narrate, recount, relate
• (to instruct or inform): advise, apprise; See also Thesaurus:inform
• (reveal): disclose, make known; See also Thesaurus:divulge
• (inform someone in authority): grass up, snitch, tattle; See also Thesaurus:rat out

Antonyms

• (to instruct or inform): ask

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

tell (plural tells)

1. A reflexive, often habitual behavior, especially one occurring in a context that often features attempts at deception by persons under psychological stress (such as a poker game or police interrogation), that reveals information that the person exhibiting the behavior is attempting to withhold.
2. (archaic) That which is told; a tale or account.
   • April 4, 1743, Horace Walpole, letter to Sir Horace Mann

     I am at the end of my tell.

3. (Internet) A private message to an individual in a chat room; a whisper.

See also

• dead giveaway

Etymology 2

From Arabic ????? (tall, “hill, elevation”) or Hebrew ????? (tél, “hill”), from Proto-Semitic *tall- (“hill”).

Noun

tell (plural tells)

1. (archaeology) A hill or mound, originally and especially in the Middle East, over or consisting of the ruins of ancient settlements.

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

tell

1. imperative of telle