statement

1. (noun) a document showing credits and debits
Synonyms: financial statement
Related Words: account, account statement, accounting, bank statement, bill, commercial document, commercial instrument, earnings report, income statement, invoice, operating statement, profit-and-loss statement

2. (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"
Related Words: Bill of Rights, account, agreement, amendment, announcement, answer, assurance, cautious statement, chemical formula, comment, commentary, condition, content, declaration, description, estimate, explanation, false statement, falsehood, falsity, forecasting, foretelling, formula, mathematical statement, message, misstatement, prediction, proposition, qualification, recital, remark, reply, representation, reservation, resolution, response, restatement, result, rhetorical question, solution, subject matter, substance, term, thing, true statement, truth, understanding, understatement, untruth, value statement, verbal description, word

3. (noun) a nonverbal message; "a Cadillac makes a statement about who you are"; "his tantrums are a statement of his need for attention"
Related Words: content, message, subject matter, substance

4. (noun) (music) the presentation of a musical theme; "the initial statement of the sonata"
Related Words: idea, melodic theme, musical theme, theme

5. (noun) a fact or assertion offered as evidence that something is true; "it was a strong argument that his hypothesis was true"
Synonyms: argument
Related Words: adducing, case, clincher, con, determiner, determining factor, evidence, pro, proof, specious argument

6. (noun) (computer science) a line of code written as part of a computer program
Synonyms: command, instruction, program line
Related Words: call, code, command line, computer code, macro, system error, toggle

7. (noun) the act of affirming or asserting or stating something
Synonyms: affirmation, assertion
Related Words: say-so, speech act



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