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statement

English

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?ste?tm(?)nt/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /?ste?tm?nt/
  • Rhymes: -e?tm?nt
  • Hyphenation: state?ment

Etymology 1

From state +? -ment.

Noun

statement (plural statements)

  1. A declaration or remark.
  2. A presentation of opinion or position.
  3. (finance) A document that summarizes financial activity.
  4. (computing) An instruction in a computer program.
    • 1989, M. K. Roy, Debabrata Ghosh Dastidar, COBOL Programming (page 174)
      However, it is the responsibility of the programmer to ensure that the control ultimately reaches the last statement of the range.
Synonyms
  • See Thesaurus:statement
Derived terms
Translations

Etymology 2

Back-formation from statementing or back-formation from statemented.

Verb

statement (third-person singular simple present statements, present participle statementing, simple past and past participle statemented)

  1. (transitive) To provide an official document of a proposition, especially in the UK a Statement of Special Educational Needs.

See also

  • Special education in England on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Further reading

  • statement in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
  • statement in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

  • tentmates, testament

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  • what is an example of a galvanic cell


explaining

English

Verb

explaining

  1. present participle of explain

Noun

explaining (countable and uncountable, plural explainings)

  1. explanation
    You've got some explaining to do!

explaining From the web:

  • explaining meaning
  • explaining what lupus feels like
  • explaining what nurses do to preschoolers
  • explaining what anxiety feels like
  • explaining what depression feels like
  • explaining what a lawyer does to a child
  • explaining what a soul is to a child
  • explaining what your company does
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