state | the way something is with respect to its main attributes, the current state of knowledge, his state of health, in a weak financial state |
change of state | the act of changing something into something different in essential characteristics |
Secretary of State | the position of the head of the State Department, the position of Secretary of State was established in |
state-sponsored terrorism | terrorism practiced by a government against its own people or in support of international terrorism |
siege besieging beleaguering military blockade | the action of an armed force that surrounds a fortified place and isolates it while continuing to attack |
Orleans siege of Orleans | a long siege of Orleans by the English was relieved by Joan of Arc in |
Syracuse siege of Syracuse | the Athenian siege of Syracuse (- BC) was eventually won by Syracuse |
Syracuse siege of Syracuse | the Roman siege of Syracuse (- BC) was eventually won by the Romans who sacked the city (killing Archimedes) |
Vicksburg siege of Vicksburg | a decisive battle in the American Civil War (), after being besieged for nearly seven weeks the Confederates surrendered |
Yorktown siege of Yorktown | in the British under Cornwallis surrendered after a siege of three weeks by American and French troops, the surrender ended the American Revolution |
chair of state | a ceremonial chair for an exalted or powerful person |
Empire State Building | a skyscraper built in New York City in ,feet tall |
expressway freeway motorway pike state highway superhighway throughway thruway | a broad highway designed for high-speed traffic |
Ohio State University | a university in Columbus, Ohio |
Siege Perilous | the legendary seat at King Arthur's Round Table reserved for the knight who would find the Holy Grail, it was fatal for anyone else to sit in it |
state prison | a prison maintained by a state of the U.S. |
cognitive state state of mind | the state of a person's cognitive processes |
religious trance ecstatic state | a trance induced by intense religious devotion, does not show reduced bodily functions that are typical of other trances |
steady state theory continuous creation theory | (cosmology) the theory that the universe maintains a constant average density with matter created to fill the void left by galaxies that are receding from each other, the steady state theory has been abandoned in favor of the big bang theory |
solid-state physics | the branch of physics that studies the properties of materials in the solid state: electrical conduction in crystals of semiconductors and metals, superconductivity, photoconductivity |
state's evidence | evidence for the prosecution in criminal proceedings |
Kaplan Group Association of Islamic Groups and Communities Caliphate State | a Turkish terrorist group of fundamentalist Muslims with ties to al-Qaeda that operates in Germany, seeks the violent overthrow of the Turkish government and the establishment of an Islamic nation modeled on Iran |
authoritarian state authoritarian regime | a government that concentrates political power in an authority not responsible to the people |
State Department | a department of government in one of thestates |
Department of State United States Department of State State Department State DoS | the federal department in the United States that sets and maintains foreign policies, the Department of State was created in |
state nation country land commonwealth res publica body politic | a politically organized body of people under a single government, the state has elected a new president, African nations, students who had come to the nation's capitol, the country's largest manufacturer, an industrialized land |
rogue state renegade state rogue nation | a state that does not respect other states in its international actions |
church-state | a state ruled by religious authority |
city state city-state | a state consisting of a sovereign city |
welfare state | a government that undertakes responsibility for the welfare of its citizens through programs in public health and public housing and pensions and unemployment compensation etc. |
puppet government puppet state pupet regime | a government that is appointed by and whose affairs are directed by an outside authority that may impose hardships on those governed |
state | the group of people comprising the government of a sovereign state, the state has lowered its income tax |
state government | the government of a state in the United States |
totalitarian state totalitation regime | a government that subordinates the individual to the state and strictly controls all aspects of life by coercive measures |
supreme court state supreme court high court | the highest court in most states of the United States |
state capitalism | an economic system that is primarily capitalistic but there is some degree of government ownership of the means of production |
state socialism | an economic system in which the government owns most means of production but some degree of private capitalism is allowed |
state bank | a bank chartered by a state rather than by the federal government |
police state | a country that maintains repressive control over the people by means of police (especially secret police) |
Committee for State Security KGB Soviet KGB | formerly the predominant security police organization of Soviet Russia |
narco-state | an area that has been taken over and is controlled and corrupted by drug cartels and where law enforcement is effectively nonexistent, this Mexican town has become a narco-state that ships pounds of cocaine to the United States every day |
state line state boundary | the boundary between two states |
buffer state buffer country | a small neutral state between two rival powers |
country state land | the territory occupied by a nation, he returned to the land of his birth, he visited several European countries |
protectorate associated state | a state or territory partly controlled by (but not a possession of) a stronger state but autonomous in internal affairs, protectorates are established by treaty |
state province | the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation, his state is in the deep south |
American state | one of thestates of the United States |
state capital | the capital city of a political subdivision of a country |
Balkan country Balkan nation Balkan state | any one of the countries on the Balkan Peninsula |
Afghanistan Islamic State of Afghanistan | a mountainous landlocked country in central Asia, bordered by Iran to the west and Russia to the north and Pakistan to the east and south, Soviet troops invaded Afghanistan in |