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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Statement \State"ment\ (st[=a]t"ment), noun
1. The act of stating, reciting, or presenting, orally or on paper; as, to interrupt a speaker in the statement of his case.
2. That which is stated; a formal embodiment in language of facts or opinions; a narrative; a recital. ''Admirable perspicuity of statement.'' --Brougham.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
statement
noun
1: 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"
2: a fact or assertion offered as evidence that something is true; "it was a strong argument that his hypothesis was true" [syn: {argument}]
3: (music) the presentation of a musical theme; "the initial statement of the sonata"
4: a nonverbal message; "a Cadillac makes a statement about who you are"; "his tantrums are a statement of his need for attention"
5: the act of affirming or asserting or stating something [syn: {affirmation}, {assertion}]
6: (computer science) a line of code written as part of a computer program [syn: {instruction}, {command}, {program line}]
7: a document showing credits and debits [syn: {financial statement}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
258 Moby Thesaurus words for "statement": Parthian shot, a priori principle, account, account rendered, accounting, accounts, acquaintance, acta, address, admission, affidavit, affirmance, affirmation, allegation, anacrusis, announcement, annual, annunciation, answer, apostrophe, apriorism, articulation, assertion, asseveration, assumed position, assumption, attest, attestation, averment, avouchment, avowal, axiom, basis, bass passage, bill, bill of account, bill of complaint, bill of fare, bill of lading, blue book, body count, books, bourdon, bridge, brief, briefing, bulletin, bulletin board, burden, cadence, capitulation, carte, categorical proposition, census, census report, check, chorus, circular, claim, coda, comment, communication, communique, complaint, compurgation, conclusion, count, crack, creed, data, datum, declaration, deposition, description, development, dictum, directory, disclosure, dispatch, division, dun, edict, election returns, encyclical, enlightenment, enunciation, evidence, exclamation, exposition, expression, facts, factual information, familiarization, figure, first principles, folderol, foundation, gen, general information, greeting, ground, guidebook, handout, hard information, harmonic close, head count, hypothesis, hypothesis ad hoc, incidental information, info, information, instruction, instrument in proof, intelligence, interjection, interlude, intermezzo, introductory phrase, inventory, invoice, ipse dixit, itemized bill, knowledge, ledger, legal evidence, lemma, libel, light, major premise, manifest, manifesto, measure, mention, menu, message, minor premise, minutes, movement, musical phrase, musical sentence, narratio, narrative, nolle prosequi, nonsuit, nose count, note, notice, notification, observation, ornament, part, passage, period, philosopheme, philosophical proposition, phrase, position, position paper, positive declaration, postulate, postulation, postulatum, predicate, predication, premise, presentation, presentment, presupposition, proceedings, proclamation, profession, program, programma, promotional material, pronouncement, pronunciamento, proof, proposition, propositional function, protest, protestation, public notice, publication, publicity, question, recapitulation, recital, reckoning, recount, recounting, reflection, refrain, rehearsal, release, remark, repertory, report, resolution, response, returns, ritornello, say, say-so, saying, score, section, sentence, sidelight, stance, stand, stanza, statement of facts, strain, subjoinder, summary, summation, summing, summing up, sumption, supposal, sworn evidence, sworn statement, sworn testimony, tab, tailpiece, tally, testimonial, testimonium, testimony, the dope, the goods, the know, the record, the scoop, theorem, thesis, thought, transactions, transmission, truth table, truth-function, truth-value, tutti, tutti passage, ukase, utterance, variation, vent, verbalization, verse, vocalization, voice, vouch, white book, white paper, witness, word, yearbook
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