speak vs state

speak

verb
  • To communicate (some fact or feeling); to bespeak, to indicate. 

  • To communicate with one's voice, to say words out loud. 

  • To understand (as though it were a language). 

  • To have a conversation. 

  • To utter. 

  • To produce a sound; to sound. 

  • To be able to communicate in a language. 

  • Of a bird, to be able to vocally reproduce words or phrases from a human language. 

  • To deliver a message to a group; to deliver a speech. 

  • To be able to communicate in the manner of specialists in a field. 

  • To communicate or converse by some means other than orally, such as writing or facial expressions. 

noun
  • Speech, conversation. 

  • language, jargon, or terminology used uniquely in a particular environment or group. 

state

verb
  • To make known. 

  • To declare to be a fact. 

noun
  • 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. 

  • 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. 

How often have the words speak and state occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )