statement
Other forms: statements
A statement is a sentence that says something is true, like "Pizza is delicious." There are other kinds of statements in the worlds of the law, banking, and government.
All statements claim something or make a point. If you witness an accident, you make a statement to police, describing what you saw. You get a statement from your bank, a monthly record of what you spent and what you have left. Sometimes a statement isn't so official — it's just some kind of point being made. People say someone's car makes a statement — or their clothes do. Running away on your wedding day would make a huge statement.
Definitions of statement
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the act of affirming or asserting or stating somethingsynonyms: affirmation, assertiontypes:say-soone chap's arbitrary assertiontype of:speech actthe use of language to perform some act
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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”types:pleading(law) a statement in legal and logical form stating something on behalf of a party to a legal proceedingamendmenta statement that is added to or revises or improves a proposal or document (a bill or constitution etc.)thinga statement regarded as an objectdeclarationa statement that is emphatic and explicit (spoken or written)Bill of Rightsa statement of fundamental rights and privileges (especially the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution)formulaa conventionalized statement expressing some fundamental principlemathematical statementa statement of a mathematical relationworda brief statementaccount, explanationa statement that makes something comprehensible by describing the relevant structure or operation or circumstances etc.explanandum, explicandum(logic) a statement of something (a fact or thing or expression) to be explainedexplanans(logic) statements that explain the explicandum; the explanatory premisesvalue statementa statement of the desirability of somethingrepresentationa statement of facts and reasons made in appealing or protestinganswer, resolution, result, solution, solventa statement that solves a problem or explains how to solve the problemanswer, reply, responsea statement (either spoken or written) that is made to reply to a question or request or criticism or accusationannouncement, promulgationa public statement containing information about an event that has happened or is going to happenproposition(logic) a statement that affirms or denies something and is either true or falsequotationa statement of the current market price of a security or commodityunderstatementa statement that is restrained in ironic contrast to what might have been saidcautious statementa statement made with careful qualificationscomment, commentarya written explanation or criticism or illustration that is added to a book or other textual materialrhetorical questiona statement that is formulated as a question but that is not supposed to be answeredmisstatementa statement that contains a mistakerestatementa revised statementestimatea statement indicating the likely cost of some jobchemical formula, formulaa representation of a substance using symbols for its constituent elementsrepresentationa factual statement made by one party in order to induce another party to enter into a contractdeclarationa statement of taxable goods or of dutiable propertiesassurancea statement intended to inspire confidencerecitala detailed statement giving facts and figuresnegationa negative statement; a statement that is a refusal or denial of some other statementcapitulationa summary that enumerates the main parts of a topiccompendiuma concise but comprehensive summary of a larger workconspectusan overall summaryline scorea summary of the scoring in a game (usually in tabular form)overviewa general summary of a subjectroundupa summary list; as in e.g. "a news roundup"fair-trade agreementan agreement (illegal in the United States) between the manufacturer of a trademarked item of merchandise and its retail distributors to sell the item at a price at or above the price set by the manufacturercovenant(Bible) an agreement between God and his people in which God makes certain promises and requires certain behavior from them in returnunilateral contracta one-sided agreement whereby you promise to do (or refrain from doing) something in return for a performance (not a promise)sale, sales agreementan agreement (or contract) in which property is transferred from the seller (vendor) to the buyer (vendee) for a fixed price in money (paid or agreed to be paid by the buyer)affirmative pleadingany defensive pleading that affirms facts rather than merely denying the facts alleged by the plaintiffalternative pleading, pleading in the alternativea pleading that alleges facts so separate that it is difficult to determine which facts the person intends to rely onanswerthe principal pleading by the defendant in response to plaintiff's complaint; in criminal law it consists of the defendant's plea of `guilty' or `not guilty' (or nolo contendere); in civil law it must contain denials of all allegations in the plaintiff's complaint that the defendant hopes to controvert and it can contain affirmative defenses or counterclaimscomplaint(civil law) the first pleading of the plaintiff setting out the facts on which the claim for relief is baseddefective pleadingany pleading that fails to conform in form or substance to minimum standards of accuracy or sufficiencydemurrer(law) any pleading that attacks the legal sufficiency of the opponent's pleadingsreplication(law) a pleading made by a plaintiff in reply to the defendant's plea or answerrejoinder(law) a pleading made by a defendant in response to the plaintiff's replicationspecial pleading(law) a pleading that alleges new facts in avoidance of the opposing allegationssurrejoinder(law) a pleading by the plaintiff in reply to the defendant's rejoinderequationa mathematical statement that two expressions are equalad-libremark made spontaneously without prior preparationcourtesya courteous or respectful or considerate remarkjob descriptiondescription of the responsibilities associated with a given jobedicta formal or authoritative proclamationpromulgationthe official announcement of a new law or ordinance whereby the law or ordinance is put into effectconfessiona public declaration of your faithmanifesto, pronunciamentoa public declaration of intentions (as issued by a political party or government)assertion, asseveration, avermenta declaration that is made emphatically (as if no supporting evidence were necessary)protestationa strong declaration of protestpostulation, predication(logic) a declaration of something self-evident; something that can be assumed as the basis for argumentthreatdeclaration of an intention or a determination to inflict harm on anothercontract, declaration(contract bridge) the highest bid becomes the contract setting the number of tricks that the bidder must maketakeout(bridge) a bid that asks your partner to bid another suitoverbid, overcall(bridge) a bid that is higher than your opponent's bid (especially when your partner has not bid at all and your bid exceeds the value of your hand)pre-empt, preempt, preemptive bida high bid that is intended to prevent the opposing players from biddingsimplificationan explanation that omits superfluous details and reduces complexityaccountinga convincing explanation that reveals basic causesreasonan explanation of the cause of some phenomenonjustificationa statement in explanation of some action or beliefexpositionan account that sets forth the meaning or intent of a writing or discourseexplicationa detailed explanation of the meaning of somethingderivation, deriving, etymologizing(historical linguistics) an explanation of the historical origins of a word or phrasedefinitiona concise explanation of the meaning of a word or phrase or symbolrescripta reply by a Pope to an inquiry concerning a point of law or moralityfeedbackresponse to an inquiry or experimentadvisoryan announcement that usually advises or warns the public of some threatbannsa public announcement of a proposed marriagehandout, press release, releasean announcement distributed to members of the press in order to supplement or replace an oral presentationnoticean announcement containing information about an eventprogram, programmean announcement of the events that will occur as part of a theatrical or sporting eventextropythe prediction that human intelligence and technology will enable life to expand in an orderly way throughout the entire universefortunetellingthe practice of predicting people's futures (usually for payment)horoscopea prediction of someone's future based on the relative positions of the planetsparticular, particular proposition(logic) a proposition that asserts something about some (but not all) members of a classuniversal, universal proposition(logic) a proposition that asserts something of all members of a classnegation(logic) a proposition that is true if and only if another proposition is falseconversea proposition obtained by conversionlemmaa subsidiary proposition that is assumed to be true in order to prove another propositiontheorema proposition deducible from basic postulatesconclusion, ratiocinationthe proposition arrived at by logical reasoning (such as the proposition that must follow from the major and minor premises of a syllogism)posit, postulate(logic) a proposition that is accepted as true in order to provide a basis for logical reasoningaxiom(logic) a proposition that is not susceptible of proof or disproof; its truth is assumed to be self-evidentfine print, small printthe part of a contract that contains reservations and qualifications that are often printed in small typeweasel wordan equivocal qualification; a word used to avoid making an outright assertionMidrash(Judaism) an ancient commentary on part of the Hebrew scriptures that is based on Jewish methods of interpretation and attached to the biblical textriba teasing remarkbarb, dig, gibe, jibe, shaft, shot, slaman aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effectdemythologisation, demythologizationthe restatement of a message (as a religious one) in rational termsslip of the tonguean accidental and usually trivial mistake in speakingbargain, dealan agreement between parties (usually arrived at after discussion) fixing obligations of eachworking agreementan informal agreement to work togethergentlemen's agreementa personal agreement based on honor and not legally bindingwritten agreementa legal document summarizing the agreement between partiessubmissionan agreement between parties in a dispute to abide by the decision of an arbiteroral contractan agreement that is not in writing and is not signed by the parties but is a real existing contract that lacks only the formal requirement of a memorandum to render it enforceable in litigationmolecular formulaa chemical formula based on analysis and molecular weightempirical formulaa chemical formula showing the ratio of elements in a compound rather than the total number of atomstautology(logic) a statement that is necessarily truelitotes, meiosisunderstatement for rhetorical effect (especially when expressing an affirmative by negating its contrary)truisman obvious truthinterpretationan explanation that results from interpreting somethingreservationthe written record or promise of an arrangement by which accommodations are secured in advancesettlementa conclusive resolution of a matter and disposition of itseverance agreementan agreement on the terms on which an employee will leavesuicide pactan agreement by two or more people to commit suicide together at a given place and timecharacterisation, characterization, delineation, depiction, picture, word picture, word-paintinga graphic or vivid verbal descriptionclean bill of healthan assurance that someone is healthy or something is in good conditionwanted notice, wanted postera public announcement by a law enforcement agency that they desire to question or arrest some personwalk-througha thorough explanation (usually accompanied by a demonstration) of each step in a procedure or processzingera striking or amusing or caustic remarksyllabusa summary or outline of what will be covered in an academic coursetype of:
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a fact or assertion offered as evidence that something is truesynonyms: argumenttypes:proofa formal series of statements showing that if one thing is true something else necessarily follows from itproan argument in favor of a proposalconan argument opposed to a proposalcasea statement of facts and reasons used to support an argumentadducingciting as evidence or prooflast wordthe final statement in a verbal argumentspecious argumentan argument that appears good at first view but is really fallaciousmathematical proofproof of a mathematical theoremlogical proofproof of a logical theoremdemonstration, monstranceproof by a process of argument or a series of proposition proving an asserted conclusionvicious circlean argument that assumes that which is to be provedspecial pleadingan argument that ignores all unfavorable evidencetype of:evidencean indication that makes something evident
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a document showing credits and debitssynonyms: financial statementtypes:bank statementa periodic statement prepared by a bank for each clientearnings report, income statement, operating statement, profit-and-loss statementa financial statement that gives operating results for a specific periodelectric billa bill for money owed for electricity usedhotel billstatement of charges for staying in a hoteltax billmoney owed for taxescapital account(finance) an account of the net value of a business at a specified datecapital account(economics) that part of the balance of payments recording a nation's outflow and inflow of financial securitiesprofit and loss, profit and loss accountan account compiled at the end of an accounting period to show gross and net profit or losssuspense accountan account used temporarily to carry doubtful receipts and disbursements or discrepancies pending their analysis and permanent classificationexpense account, travel and entertainment accountan account to which salespersons or executives can charge travel and entertainment expensestype of:
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(computer science) a line of code written as part of a computer programsynonyms: command, instruction, program linetypes:callan instruction that interrupts the program being executedcommand linecommands that a user types in order to run an applicationlink(computing) an instruction that connects one part of a program or an element on a list to another program or listmacro, macro instructiona single computer instruction that results in a series of instructions in machine languagesystem erroran instruction that is either not recognized by an operating system or is in violation of the procedural rulestoggleany instruction that works first one way and then the other; it turns something on the first time it is used and then turns it off the next timefunction calla call that passes control to a subroutine; after the subroutine is executed control returns to the next instruction in main programhyperlinka link from a hypertext file to another location or file; typically activated by clicking on a highlighted word or icon at a particular location on the screensupervisor call instruction, system callan instruction that interrupts the program being executed and passes control to the supervisortype of:code, computer code(computer science) the symbolic arrangement of data or instructions in a computer program or the set of such instructions
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(music) the presentation of a musical theme“the initial statement of the sonata”types:augmentationthe statement of a theme in notes of greater duration (usually twice the length of the original)diminutionthe statement of a theme in notes of lesser duration (usually half the length of the original)type of:
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a nonverbal message
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