shape vs state

shape

noun
  • The status or condition of something 

  • Form; formation. 

  • Condition of personal health, especially muscular health. 

  • In the Hack programming language, a group of data fields each of which has a name and a data type. 

  • A loaded die. 

  • A piece which has been roughly forged nearly to the form it will receive when completely forged or fitted. 

  • The appearance of something in terms of its arrangement in space, especially its outline; often a basic geometric two-dimensional figure. 

  • A rolled or hammered piece, such as a bar, beam, angle iron, etc., having a cross section different from merchant bar. 

verb
  • To form or manipulate something into a certain shape. 

  • To create or make. 

  • To give something a shape and definition. 

  • To give influence to. 

  • To suit; to be adjusted or conformable. 

state

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

  • 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. 

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

  • 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. 

  • 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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