police vs state

police

noun
  • A department of local (usually municipal) government responsible for general law enforcement. 

  • The staff of such a department or agency, particularly its officers; (regional, chiefly US, Caribbean, Jamaica, Scotland, countable) an individual police officer. 

  • Any of the formally enacted law enforcement agencies at various levels of government. 

  • A branch of the Home Office responsible for general law enforcement within a specific territory. 

  • A public agency charged with enforcing laws and maintaining public order, usually being granted special privileges to do so, particularly 

  • People who try to enforce norms or standards as if granted authority similar to the police. 

  • Cleanup of a military facility, as a formal duty. 

verb
  • To clean up an area. 

  • To enforce norms or standards upon. 

  • To enforce the law and keep order among (a group). 

state

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

  • A complete description of a system, consisting of parameters that determine all properties of the system. 

  • Pomp, ceremony, or dignity. 

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

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

  • A political division of a federation retaining a notable degree of autonomy, as in the United States, Mexico, Nigeria, or India. 

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

  • The lexical aspect (aktionsart) of verbs or predicates that do not change over time. 

  • Rank; condition; quality. 

  • A mess; disorder. 

  • The stable condition of a processor during a particular clock cycle. 

  • The set of all parameters relevant to a computation. 

  • The values of all parameters at some point in a computation. 

  • The physical property of matter as solid, liquid, gas or plasma. 

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

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

verb
  • To declare to be a fact. 

  • To make known. 

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