the way something is with respect to its main attributes | a frictionless continuant that is not a nasal consonant (especially `l' and `r') |
a politically organized body of people under a single government | the state in which a substance exhibits a characteristic readiness to flow with little or no tendency to disperse and relatively high incompressibility |
the group of people comprising the government of a sovereign state | fluid matter having no fixed shape but a fixed volume |
the territory occupied by a nation | a substance that is liquid at room temperature and pressure |
the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation | |
a state of depression or agitation | |
(chemistry) the three traditional states of matter are solids (fixed shape and volume) and liquids (fixed volume and shaped by the container) and gases (filling the container) | |