Province vs. State

Province vs. State — Is There a Difference?
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Difference Between Province and State

Provincenoun

A region of the earth or of a continent; a district or country.

Statenoun

A condition; a set of circumstances applying at any given time.

a state of being;a state of emergency

Provincenoun

An administrative subdivision of certain countries, including Canada and China.

Statenoun

(physics) A complete description of a system, consisting of parameters that determine all properties of the system.

Provincenoun

(Roman history) An area outside Italy which is administered by a Roman governor.

Statenoun

(computing) The stable condition of a processor during a particular clock cycle.

In the fetch state, the address of the next instruction is placed on the address bus.
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Provincenoun

(Christianity) An area under the jurisdiction of an archbishop, typically comprising a number of adjacent dioceses.

Statenoun

(computing) The set of all parameters relevant to a computation.

The state here includes a set containing all names seen so far.

Provincenoun

The parts of a country outside its capital city.

Statenoun

(computing) The values of all parameters at some point in a computation.

A debugger can show the state of a program at any breakpoint.

Provincenoun

An area of activity, responsibility or knowledge; the proper concern of a particular person or concept.

Statenoun

(sciences) The physical property of matter as solid, liquid, gas or plasma.

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Provincenoun

the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation;

his state is in the deep south

Statenoun

(obsolete) Highest and stationary condition, as that of maturity between growth and decline, or as that of crisis between the increase and the abating of a disease; height; acme.

Provincenoun

the proper sphere or extent of your activities;

it was his province to take care of himself

Statenoun

High social standing or circumstance.

Statenoun

Pomp, ceremony, or dignity.

The President's body will lie in state at the Capitol.

Statenoun

Rank; condition; quality.

Statenoun

Condition of prosperity or grandeur; wealthy or prosperous circumstances; social importance.

Statenoun

A chair with a canopy above it, often standing on a dais; a seat of dignity; also, the canopy itself.

Statenoun

(obsolete) A great person, a dignitary; a lord or prince.

Statenoun

(obsolete) Estate, possession.

Statenoun

A polity.

Statenoun

Any sovereign polity; a national or city-state government.

Statenoun

A political division of a federation retaining a notable degree of autonomy, as in the United States or Germany; any province.

Statenoun

(obsolete) A form of government other than a monarchy.

Statenoun

(anthropology) A society larger than a tribe. A society large enough to form a state in the sense of a government.

Statenoun

An element of the range of the random variables that define a random process.

Stateverb

(transitive) To declare to be a fact.

He stated that he was willing to help.

Stateverb

(transitive) To make known.

State your intentions.

Stateadjective

(obsolete) stately

Statenoun

the group of people comprising the government of a sovereign state;

the state has lowered its income tax

Statenoun

the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation;

his state is in the deep south

Statenoun

a politically organized body of people under a single government;

the state has elected a new presidentAfrican nationsstudents who had come to the nation's capitolthe country's largest manufactureran industrialized land

Statenoun

the way something is with respect to its main attributes;

the current state of knowledgehis state of healthin a weak financial state

Statenoun

the federal department in the UnitedStates that sets and maintains foreign policies;

the Department of State was created in 1789

Statenoun

the territory occupied by a nation;

he returned to the land of his birthhe visited several European countries

Statenoun

a state of depression or agitation;

he was in such a state you just couldn't reason with him

Statenoun

(chemistry) the three traditional states of matter are solids (fixed shape and volume) and liquids (fixed volume and shaped by the container) and gases (filling the container);

the solid state of water is called ice

Stateverb

express in words;

He said that he wanted to marry hertell me what is bothering youstate your opinionstate your name

Stateverb

put before;

I submit to you that the accused is guilty

Stateverb

indicate through a symbol, formula, etc.;

Can you express this distance in kilometers?