What's the difference between dignitary and state?

Dignitary


Definition:

  • (n.) One who possesses exalted rank or holds a position of dignity or honor; especially, one who holds an ecclesiastical rank above that of a parochial priest or clergyman.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Deamonte Driver Dental Project mobile clinic was parked outside, offering tours to dignitaries and care to schoolchildren.
  • (2) Mervyn Davies learnt of his promotion to the position of chief executive at Standard Chartered seven years ago while cooking dinner for Hong Kong dignitaries.
  • (3) As Hunter recorded, it was acquired by a civic dignitary, Mr Alderman Pugh, "who very politely allowed me to examine its structure, and to take away the bones".
  • (4) Foreign dignitaries were invited to attend for the first time and it is a pity that from Europe only Javier Solana chose to take the offer up.
  • (5) Education, housing, everything you can think of, he’s taken care of for us.” Leaders and dignitaries from more than two dozen countries attended the funeral.
  • (6) Many of those dignitaries, particularly those from rich countries and from financial institutions like the World Bank and the European Investment Bank, are planning to push the role of the private sector in development.
  • (7) Disclosure of the note prompted further questions asking why Ashcroft is allowed to accompany Hague on official visits to meet dignitaries when he is not on the shadow foreign team.
  • (8) The bitterest conflict centres on a plane crash in Smolensk in 2010 that claimed the lives of scores of Polish dignitaries.
  • (9) I’ve been involved with meeting a whole range of beer buyers, meeting politicians and other dignitaries, including Prince Charles, to speaking to publicans and doing tastings in big and small stores.
  • (10) Fast forward to 2010, when a Polish aircraft carrying the country’s president and other dignitaries crashed near Katyn in Russia .
  • (11) It wasn’t quite the same when Ronald Reagan came.” Other dignitaries to have come through Shannon over the years include Fidel Castro and Barack Obama.
  • (12) Turkish dignitaries are frequent visitors to Sarajevo.
  • (13) Karzai surprised the international community and many Afghans in December when he ignored the recommendation of an assembly of tribal leaders and other dignitaries to sign it, saying he would leave the final decision to his successor after 5 April elections.
  • (14) Standard security checks in the US frequently make front-page news in India when they involve visiting dignitaries, who are ushered through airports as VIPs in their own country.
  • (15) Within 20 minutes, the refugees were off the commercial aircraft and taken by an airport people carrier to the VIP terminal, which is typically used by royalty, government officials and dignitaries.
  • (16) Under the blistering heat of the southern African sun, the dignitaries did not linger.
  • (17) The official start to Climate Week got under way around midday yesterday, with the UN chief, Yvo de Boer, Tony Blair , and other dignitaries issuing a call for action.
  • (18) King Alexander and Queen Maxima and other dignitaries attended the ceremony.
  • (19) The collision of protests about cuts to legal aid and foreign dignitaries eager to learn from England’s judicial heritage produced contrasting legal blasts of invective and appreciation in Westminster.
  • (20) It explains the rash of postponed visits by foreign dignitaries to Tokyo.

State


Definition:

  • (n.) The circumstances or condition of a being or thing at any given time.
  • (n.) Rank; condition; quality; as, the state of honor.
  • (n.) Condition of prosperity or grandeur; wealthy or prosperous circumstances; social importance.
  • (n.) Appearance of grandeur or dignity; pomp.
  • (n.) A chair with a canopy above it, often standing on a dais; a seat of dignity; also, the canopy itself.
  • (n.) Estate, possession.
  • (n.) A person of high rank.
  • (n.) Any body of men united by profession, or constituting a community of a particular character; as, the civil and ecclesiastical states, or the lords spiritual and temporal and the commons, in Great Britain. Cf. Estate, n., 6.
  • (n.) The principal persons in a government.
  • (n.) The bodies that constitute the legislature of a country; as, the States-general of Holland.
  • (n.) A form of government which is not monarchial, as a republic.
  • (n.) A political body, or body politic; the whole body of people who are united one government, whatever may be the form of the government; a nation.
  • (n.) In the United States, one of the commonwealth, or bodies politic, the people of which make up the body of the nation, and which, under the national constitution, stands in certain specified relations with the national government, and are invested, as commonwealth, with full power in their several spheres over all matters not expressly inhibited.
  • (n.) Highest and stationary condition, as that of maturity between growth and decline, or as that of crisis between the increase and the abating of a disease; height; acme.
  • (a.) Stately.
  • (a.) Belonging to the state, or body politic; public.
  • (v. t.) To set; to settle; to establish.
  • (v. t.) To express the particulars of; to set down in detail or in gross; to represent fully in words; to narrate; to recite; as, to state the facts of a case, one's opinion, etc.
  • (n.) A statement; also, a document containing a statement.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) All rats were examined in the conscious, unrestrained state 12 wk after induction of diabetes or acidified saline (pH 4.5) injection.
  • (2) One hundred and twenty-seven states have said with common voice that their security is directly threatened by the 15,000 nuclear weapons that exist in the arsenals of nine countries, and they are demanding that these weapons be prohibited and abolished.
  • (3) There was appreciable variation in toothbrush wear among subjects, some reducing their brush to a poor state in 2 weeks whereas with others the brush was rated as "good" after 10 weeks.
  • (4) Herpesviruses such as EBV, HSV, and human herpes virus-6 (HHV-6) have a marked tropism for cells of the immune system and therefore infection by these viruses may result in alterations of immune functions, leading at times to a state of immunosuppression.
  • (5) Steady-state values of cell, glucose, and cellulase concentration oxygen tension, and outlet gas oxygen partial pressure were recorded.
  • (6) In cardiac tissue the adenylate system is not a good indicator of the energy state of the mitochondrion, even when the concentrations of AMP and free cytosolic ADP are calculated from the adenylate kinase and creatine kinase equilibria.
  • (7) M NET is currently installed in referring physician office sites across the state, with additional physician sites identified and program enhancements under development.
  • (8) Furthermore, their distribution in various ethnic groups residing in different districts of Rajasthan state (Western-India) is also reviewed.
  • (9) The results also suggest that the dispersed condition of pigment in the melanophores represents the "resting state" of the melanophores when they are under no stimulation.
  • (10) However, the firing of 5-HT neurons appears to relate to the state of vigilance of the animal.
  • (11) The Department of Herd Health and Ambulatory Clinic of the Veterinary Faculty (State University of Utrecht, The Netherlands) has developed the VAMPP package for swine breeding farms.
  • (12) Effects of habitual variations in napping on psychomotor performance, short-term memory and subjective states were investigated.
  • (13) And this is the supply of 30% of the state’s fresh water.” To conduct the survey, the state’s water agency dispatches researchers to measure the level of snow manually at 250 separate sites in the Sierra Nevada, Rizzardo said.
  • (14) Before issuing the ruling, the judge Shaban El-Shamy read a lengthy series of remarks detailing what he described as a litany of ills committed by the Muslim Brotherhood, including “spreading chaos and seeking to bring down the Egyptian state”.
  • (15) Family therapists have attempted to convert the acting-out behavioral disorders into an effective state, i.e., make the family aware of their feelings of deprivation by focusing on the aggressive component.
  • (16) In this phase the educational practices are vastly determined by individual activities which form the basis for later regulations by the state.
  • (17) Given Australia’s number one position as the worst carbon emitter per capita among major western nations it seems hardly surprising that islanders from Fiji, Samoa, Vanuatu and other small island developing states have been turning to Australia with growing exasperation demanding the country demonstrate an appropriate response and responsibility.
  • (18) In these liposomes, the amounts and molecular states of SL-MDP were determined from ESR spectra and are discussed in connection with its immunopotentiating property.
  • (19) Antral G cells increase in states of achlorhydria in man and animals provided atrophic antral gastritis is absent.
  • (20) Writing in the Observer , Schmidt said his company's accounts were complicated but complied with international taxation treaties that allowed it to pay most of its tax in the United States.