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発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈsteɪtm(ə)nt/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈsteɪtmənt/
• 韻: -eɪtmənt
• ハイフネーション: state‧ment

語源 1

From state +‎ -ment.

名詞

statement (plural statements)

1. A declaration or remark.

   make a statement

   publish a statement

   utter a statement

2. A presentation of opinion or position.
3. (finance) A document that summarizes financial activity.

   a bank statement

4. (computing) An instruction in a computer program, especially one that returns no value, as opposed to a function call.
   • 1981, Thomas C. Bartee, BASIC computer programming, page 110:

     In this section we will examine BASIC's primary statement for repeating a string of statements under program control: the FOR statement. Another statement, the NEXT statement, is always used with a FOR statement.

   • 1989, M. K. Roy, Debabrata Ghosh Dastidar, COBOL Programming, page 174:

     However, it is the responsibility of the programmer to ensure that the control ultimately reaches the last statement of the range.

同意語

• See Thesaurus:statement

派生語

形容詞

statement (not comparable)

1. Decisive.
   • 2023 October 8, Phil McNulty, “Arsenal 1-0 Manchester City”, in BBC Sport‎:

     Gabriel Martinelli scored a dramatic late winner as Arsenal earned a statement victory over defending Premier League champions Manchester City at Emirates Stadium.

語源 2

Back-formation from statementing or back-formation from statemented.

動詞

statement (third-person singular simple present statements, present participle statementing, simple past and past participle statemented)

1. (transitive) To provide an official document of a proposition, especially in the UK, a Statement of Special Educational Needs.

参考

• Special education in England on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Further reading

• “statement”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “statement”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

アナグラム

• testament, tentmates, Amstetten