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Noun statement has 7 senses
- statement - a message that is stated or declared; a communication (oral or written) setting forth particulars or facts etc; "according to his statement he was in London on that day"
--1 is a kind of message, content, subject matter, substance
--1 has particulars: | summary; pleading; amendment; thing; truth, true statement; description, verbal description; declaration; announcement, proclamation, annunciation, declaration; Bill of Rights; formula; mathematical statement; bid, bidding; word; explanation, account; explicandum, explanandum; explanans; value statement; representation; solution, answer, result, resolution, solvent; answer, reply, response; announcement, promulgation; prediction, foretelling, forecasting, prognostication; proposition; quotation; falsehood, falsity, untruth, false statement; understatement; reservation, qualification; cautious statement; comment, commentary; remark, comment; rhetorical question; misstatement; restatement; agreement, understanding; condition, term; estimate; formula, chemical formula; representation; declaration; assurance; recital; negation |
- argument, statement - a fact or assertion offered as evidence that something is true; "it was a strong argument that his hypothesis was true"
--2 is a kind of evidence
--2 has particulars:
- statement - (music) the presentation of a musical theme; "the initial statement of the sonata"
--3 is a kind of theme, melodic theme, musical theme, idea
--3 has particulars: augmentation; diminution
- statement - a nonverbal message; "a Cadillac makes a statement about who you are"; "his tantrums are a statement of his need for attention"
--4 is a kind of message, content, subject matter, substance
- affirmation, assertion, statement - the act of affirming or asserting or stating something
--5 is a kind of speech act
--5 has particulars: say-so
- instruction, command, statement, program line - (computer science) a line of code written as part of a computer program
--6 is a kind of code, computer code
--6 is a part of program, programme, computer program, computer programme
--6 has particulars:
- statement, financial statement - a document showing credits and debits
--7 is a kind of commercial document, commercial instrument
--7 has particulars:
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