English > statement: 7 senses > noun 1, communicationMeaning | A message that is stated or declared; a communication (oral or written) setting forth particulars or facts etc. |
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Example | "according to his statement he was in London on that day" |
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Narrower | Bill of Rights | A statement of fundamental rights and privileges (especially the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution) |
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agreement, understanding | The statement (oral or written) of an exchange of promises |
amendment | A statement that is added to or revises or improves a proposal or document (a bill or constitution etc.) |
announcement, promulgation | A public statement containing information about an event that has happened or is going to happen |
announcement, proclamation, annunciation, declaration | A formal public statement |
answer, reply, response | A statement (either spoken or written) that is made to reply to a question or request or criticism or accusation |
assurance | A statement intended to inspire confidence |
bid, bidding | (bridge) the number of tricks a bridge player is willing to contract to make |
cautious statement | A statement made with careful qualifications / qualifications |
comment, commentary | A written explanation or criticism or illustration that is added to a book or other textual material |
condition, strings, term | (usually plural) a statement of what is required as part of an agreement |
declaration | A statement that is emphatic and explicit (spoken or written) |
declaration | A statement of taxable goods or of dutiable properties |
description, verbal description | A statement that represents something in words |
estimate | A statement indicating the likely cost of some job |
explanans | (logic) statements that explain the explicandum |
explanation, account | A statement that makes something comprehensible by describing the relevant structure or operation or circumstances etc. |
explicandum, explanandum | (logic) a statement of something (a fact or thing or expression) to be explained |
falsehood, falsity, untruth | A false statement |
formula | A conventionalized statement expressing some fundamental principle |
formula, chemical formula | A representation of a substance using symbols for its constituent elements |
mathematical statement | A statement of a mathematical relation |
misstatement | A statement that contains a mistake |
negation | A negative statement |
pleading | (law) a statement in legal and logical form stating something on behalf of a party to a legal proceeding |
prediction, foretelling, forecasting, prognostication | A statement made about the future |
proposition | (logic) a statement that affirms or denies something and is either true or false |
quotation | A statement of the current market price of a security or commodity |
recital | A detailed statement giving facts and figures |
remark, comment, input | A statement that expresses a personal opinion or belief or adds information |
representation | A factual statement made by one party in order to induce another party to enter into a contract |
representation | A statement of facts and reasons made in appealing / appealing or protesting |
reservation, qualification | A statement that limits or restricts some claim |
restatement | A revised statement |
rhetorical question | A statement that is formulated as a question but that is not supposed to be answered |
solution, answer, result, resolution, solvent | A statement that solves a problem or explains how to solve the problem |
summary, sum-up | A brief statement that presents the main points in a concise form |
thing | A statement regarded as an object |
truth, true statement | A true statement |
understatement | A statement that is restrained in ironic contrast to what might have been said |
value statement | A statement of the desirability of something |
word | A brief statement |
Broader | message, content, subject matter, substance | What a communication that is about something is about |
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Spanish | afirmación, declaración |
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Catalan | afirmació, declaració |
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Verbs | state | express in words / words |
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English > statement: 7 senses > noun 6, communicationMeaning | (computer science) a line of code written as part of a computer program. |
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Synonyms | instruction, command, program line |
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Category | computer science, computing | The branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures |
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Part of | program, programme, computer program, computer programme | (computer science) a sequence / sequence of instructions that a computer can interpret and execute |
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Narrower | call | An instruction that interrupts the program being executed |
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command line | commands that a user types in order to run an application |
link | (computing) an instruction that connects one part of a program or an element on a list to another program or list |
macro, macro instruction | A single computer instruction that results in a series of instructions in machine language |
system error | An instruction that is either not recognized by an operating system or is in violation of the procedural rules |
toggle | Any instruction that works first one way and then the other |
Broader | code, computer code | (computer science) the symbolic arrangement of data or instructions in a computer program or the set of such instructions |
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Spanish | comando, directiva, directriz, instrucción, orden |
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Catalan | instrucció, ordre |
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