The State

Definition

state 1 /steÇt / n ၁။ [C] အေျခအေန။ အေနအထား။ a confused state of mind ❍ be in a state of shock ❍ a poor state of health ❍ in a state of undress (ie naked) ❍ not in a fit state to drive ❍ The house is in a very untidy state at the moment. ❍ These buildings are in a bad state of repair (ie need to be repaired). ❍ The government declared a state of emergency after the earthquake. ❍ She was in a terrible state (ie very upset, anxious, etc) when we arrived. ၂။ (also State ) [C] ႏိုင္ငံ။ the State of Israel ❍ member states of the European Union. ❍ COUNTRY ၁ See also CITY-STATE, NATION-STATE, POLICE STATE, WELFARE STATE ၃။ (also State ) [C] ျပည္နယ္။ How many States are there in the United States of America? ❍ the state of California. Compare COUNTY, PROVINCE ၁ ၄။ (also the State ) [U] ႏိုင္ငံေတာ္အစိုးရ။ matters/affairs of state ❍ European heads of state ❍ Church and State ❍ free education provided by the state ❍ state-owned/ -sponsored/ -controlled industries. ၅။ [U] (ႏိုင္ငံေတာ္အဆင့္)အခမ္းအနား။ The Queen was in her robes of state. ❍ The President was driven in state through the streets. ၆။ the States [pl] ( infml ) အေမရိက ျပည္ေထာင္စု။ I've never been to the States. adj (also State ) ၁။ အစိုးရ။ ႏိုင္ငံေတာ္။ state education ❍ state schools (ie free school run by public authorities) ❍ state secrets ❍ a state pension ၂။ ႏိုင္ငံေတာ္အဆင့္ (အခမ္းအနား၊ အေဆာင္အေယာင္)။ a state occasion ❍ the state apartments ❍ a state visit (eg by a king or queen to another country) ❍ the state opening of Parliament. ❏ in / into a state [ IDM ] ( infml ) ၁။ အထိတ္တလန္႔။ She got herself into a state about her exams. ❍ He was in a real state when I last saw him. ၂။ ညစ္ပတ္ေပေရလ်က္။ What a state this place is in! ❏ the State Department n အေမရိကန္ျပည္ေထာင္စု၏ ႏိုင္ငံျခားေရးရာဝန္ႀကီးဌာန။ ❏ statehood n [U] အခ်ဳပ္အျခာအာဏာပိုင္ ႏိုင္ငံအျဖစ္။ ❏ stateless adj ႏိုင္ငံမဲ့ (ပုဂၢိဳလ္)။ statelessness n [U] ❏ a state of affairs [ IDM ] အေျခအေန။ အျခင္းအရာ။ What a shocking state of affairs! ❏ state-of-the-art adj သက္ဆိုင္ရာပညာရပ္တြင္ ေခတ္အမီ ဆံုး၊ အဆင့္အျမင့္ဆံုး။ a state-of-the-art computer program. ❏ the state of play [ IDM ] ၁။ ခရစ္ကက္ပြဲ အ႐ံႈးအႏိုင္။ ၂။ ႏွစ္ဖက္အားၿပိဳင္မႈရလဒ္။ What is the latest state of play in the disarmament talks? ❏ turn State's evidence ( US ) ( turn King's/Queen's evidence ) [ IDM ] (အစိုးရသက္ေသအျဖစ္)ေဖာ္ေကာင္လုပ္သည္။ state 2 /steÇt / v ၁။ အတည္တက် ေျပာဆိုေရးသားသည္။ အဆိုရိွသည္။ ထုတ္ဆိုသည္။ ထြက္ဆိုသည္။ ေဖာ္ျပသည္။ state one's views ❍ an article in which she states the case for military action ❍ There's no need to state the obvious (ie obvious facts, etc). ❍ A police surgeon stated that the man had died from wounds to the chest and head. ❍ This report clearly states what the problems are. ၂။ သတ္မွတ္(ထား)သည္။ at stated times/intervals ❍ You must work the hours stated. ❍ Follow the instructions (as) stated below.

Examples

1. [the state of] : We’re collecting data on the state of the environment.
2. [a state of] : The country is drifting into a state of chaos.
3. [a sorry state] : The British transport system is in a bit of a sorry state.
4. The curators believe the painting can be restored to its original state.
5. A friend found the girl in the street in a distressed state.
6. [state of] : The impact seemed to startle him into a state of panic.
7. [in an awful/dreadful/terrible state] : By the time he got home
8. he was in a terrible state.
9. The State of Michigan had revoked the licence.
10. Should the state play a bigger role in industry?
11. The ruling banned the state-run news media from promoting political candidates.
12. She was in a state on the day of her driving test.
13. The room was in a state as the children had been playing there.