Associations to the word «Statement»

Wiktionary

STATEMENT, noun. A declaration or remark.
STATEMENT, noun. A presentation of opinion or position.
STATEMENT, noun. (finance) A document that summarizes financial activity.
STATEMENT, noun. (computing) An instruction in a computer program.
STATEMENT, verb. (transitive) To provide an official document of a proposition, especially in the UK a Statement of Special Educational Needs.
STATEMENT OF CLAIM, noun. (legal) A statement issued in civil court proceedings by a plaintiff. It sets forth the complaints against the defendants, and the prayers for relief from the court.
STATEMENT OF INTENT, noun. (legal) A formal statement that the author has a serious intention of doing something under specified conditions, and at a specified time
STATEMENT OF INTENT, noun. (informal) An indication of what a person or persons is likely to do in the near future

Dictionary definition

STATEMENT, noun. 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".
STATEMENT, noun. A fact or assertion offered as evidence that something is true; "it was a strong argument that his hypothesis was true".
STATEMENT, noun. (music) the presentation of a musical theme; "the initial statement of the sonata".
STATEMENT, noun. A nonverbal message; "a Cadillac makes a statement about who you are"; "his tantrums are a statement of his need for attention".
STATEMENT, noun. The act of affirming or asserting or stating something.
STATEMENT, noun. (computer science) a line of code written as part of a computer program.
STATEMENT, noun. A document showing credits and debits.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats