different between statement vs utterance

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

English

Alternative forms

• utteraunce

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??t???ns/
• Hyphenation: ut?ter?ance

Etymology 1

From utter +? -ance.

Noun

utterance (countable and uncountable, plural utterances)

1. An act of uttering.
   • July 1857, Thomas Hill, "The Imagination in Mathematics", in The North American Review

     Mathematics and Poetry are [...] the utterance of the same power of imagination, only that in the one case it is addressed to the head, in the other, to the heart.

2. Something spoken.
   • 2005, Plato, Sophist. Translation by Lesley Brown. 237a.

     To know how one should express oneself in saying or judging that there really are falsehoods without getting caught up in contradiction by such an utterance: that's extremely difficult, Theaetetus.

3. The ability to speak.
4. A manner of speaking.
5. (obsolete) A sale made by offering to the public.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Francis Bacon to this entry?)

6. (obsolete) An act of putting in circulation.

Related terms

• utter
• utterable
• utterer

Translations

Etymology 2

From Old French oultrance.

Noun

utterance (plural utterances)

1. (now literary) The utmost extremity (of a fight etc.).

References

Further reading

• utterance in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• utterance at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• cruentate