Dictionary Definition
statement
Noun
1 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"
2 a fact or assertion offered as evidence that
something is true; "it was a strong argument that his hypothesis
was true" [syn: argument]
3 (music) the presentation of a musical theme;
"the initial statement of the sonata"
4 a nonverbal message; "a Cadillac makes a
statement about who you are"; "his tantrums are a statement of his
need for attention"
5 the act of affirming or asserting or stating
something [syn: affirmation, assertion]
6 (computer science) a line of code written as
part of a computer program [syn: instruction, command, program
line]
7 a document showing credits and debits [syn:
financial
statement]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
- a declaration or remark
- a presentation of opinion or position
- a document that
summarizes financial activity
- a bank statement
- an instruction in a computer program
Derived terms
Translations
declaration or remark
- Afrikaans: bewering
- Albanian: thënie
- Arabic: (bayá:n) ,
- Azeri: bildirmə
- Bulgarian: излагане (izlagane)
- Catalan: declaració
- Chinese: 声明 (shēngmíng)
- Croatian: izjava
- Czech: zpráva , výrok , prohlášení
- Danish: påstand
- Dutch: verklaring
- Esperanto: eldiro
- Estonian: avaldus
- Finnish: ilmaus
- French: déclaration
- Georgian: ჩვენება (č‘veneba)
- German: Behauptung , Erklärung
- Greek: δήλωση (dílosi)
- Hebrew: הַצְהָרָה (ha-tseharah)
- Hindi: (varnana)
- Hungarian: bejelentés
- Icelandic: staðhæfing
- Indonesian: pernyataan
- Interlingua: declaration
- Irish: ráiteas
- Italian: dichiarazione
- Japanese: 声明 (せいめい) (seimei), 報告書 (ほうこくしょ, hōkokusho)
- Korean: 계산서 (gyesansŏ), 진술 (jinsul)
- Latvian: paziņojums
- Lithuanian: ataskaita
- Mongolian: баримт бичиг (barimt bičig)
- Norwegian: påstand , ytring
- Papiamentu: deklarashon
- Persian: (bayân), (gofte)
- Polish: wyrażenie (1), zdanie (2), wyciąg (3), instrukcja (4), rozkaz (4)
- Portuguese: afirmação , declaração
- Romanian: enunţ
- Russian: заявление (zajavlénije) , изложение (izložénije)
- Serbian: изјава (izjava)
- Slovak: prehľad
- Slovene: izjava
- Spanish: declaración
- Swahili: neno
- Swedish: påstående , uttalande , konstaterande
- Tagalog: pagsasalita
- Thai: (tà-lăeng gaan)
- Turkish: ifade
- Ukrainian: заява (zajáva), виклад (vyklad)
- Uyghur: bayanat
- Vietnamese: sự bày tỏ
- Welsh: cyfriflen
- West Frisian: bewearing
- Yiddish: aroiszogung
Extensive Definition
Statement may refer to:
- Press statement, a statement issued to the news media
- statement (logic) that is either true or false
- Sentence (linguistics), a type of sentence
- Statement (programming), an instruction to execute something that will not return a value
- Financial statement, a record of financial flow
- Proposition, a statement in logic and mathematics
- Theme (music), a statement in music
- "Statement" (song), a song by the Japanese band Boris
statement in German: Statement
statement in Yiddish: סטעיטמענט
statement in Finnish: Väittämä
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Parthian shot, a priori principle, account, account rendered,
accounting, accounts, acquaintance, acta, address, admission, affidavit, affirmance, affirmation, allegation, anacrusis, announcement, annual, annunciation, answer, apostrophe, apriorism, articulation, assertion, asseveration, assumed
position, assumption,
attest, attestation, averment, avouchment, avowal, axiom, basis, bass passage, bill, bill of account, bill of
complaint, bill of fare, bill of lading, blue book, body count,
books, bourdon, bridge, brief, briefing, bulletin, bulletin board,
burden, cadence, capitulation, carte, categorical proposition,
census, census report,
check, chorus, circular, claim, coda, comment, communication, communique, complaint, compurgation, conclusion, count, crack, creed, data, datum, declaration, deposition, description, development, dictum, directory, disclosure, dispatch, division, dun, edict, election returns, encyclical, enlightenment, enunciation, evidence, exclamation, exposition, expression, facts, factual information,
familiarization,
figure, first principles,
folderol, foundation, gen, general information, greeting, ground, guidebook, handout, hard information,
harmonic close, head count, hypothesis, hypothesis ad
hoc, incidental information, info, information, instruction, instrument in
proof, intelligence, interjection, interlude, intermezzo, introductory
phrase, inventory,
invoice, ipse dixit,
itemized bill, knowledge, ledger, legal evidence, lemma, libel, light, major premise, manifest, manifesto, measure, mention, menu, message, minor premise, minutes, movement, musical phrase,
musical sentence, narratio, narrative, nolle prosequi,
nonsuit, nose count,
note, notice, notification, observation, ornament, part, passage, period, philosopheme, philosophical
proposition, phrase,
position, position
paper, positive declaration, postulate, postulation, postulatum, predicate, predication, premise, presentation, presentment, presupposition, proceedings, proclamation, profession, program, programma, promotional
material, pronouncement, pronunciamento, proof, proposition, propositional
function, protest,
protestation,
public notice, publication, publicity, question, recapitulation, recital, reckoning, recount, recounting, reflection, refrain, rehearsal, release, remark, repertory, report, resolution, response, returns, ritornello, say, say-so, saying, score, section, sentence, sidelight, stance, stand, stanza, statement of facts,
strain, subjoinder, summary, summation, summing, summing up, sumption, supposal, sworn evidence, sworn
statement, sworn testimony, tab, tailpiece, tally, testimonial, testimonium, testimony, the dope, the
goods, the know, the record, the scoop, theorem, thesis, thought, transactions, transmission, truth table,
truth-function, truth-value, tutti, tutti passage, ukase, utterance, variation, vent, verbalization, verse, vocalization, voice, vouch, white book, white paper,
witness, word, yearbook