Statement vs Say - What's the difference?

statement | say |

As a noun statement

is a declaration or remark.

As a verb statement

is to provide an official document of a proposition, especially in the uk a statement of special educational needs.

As a proper noun say is

statement

English

Etymology 1

From .

Noun

(en noun)

A declaration or remark.

A presentation of opinion or position.

(finance) A document that summarizes financial activity.

a bank statement

(computing) An instruction in a computer program.

Synonyms

* See also

Derived terms

* environmental impact statement * fashion statement * financial statement * impact statement * mission statement * statemental * victim impact statement * vision statement

Etymology 2

and statemented

Verb

(en verb)

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

External links

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Anagrams

say

English

(wikipedia say)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) seyen, seien, seggen, &c., from (etyl) .

Verb

To pronounce.

To recite.

* , chapter=5

, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=Then everybody once more knelt, and soon the blessing was pronounced. The choir and the clergy trooped out slowly, […], down the nave to the western door. […] At a seemingly immense distance the surpliced group stopped to say the last prayer.}}

To communicate, either verbally or in writing.

, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4 , passage=No matter how early I came down, I would find him on the veranda, smoking cigarettes, or otherwise his man would be there with a message to say that his master would shortly join me if I would kindly wait.}}

* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)

, chapter=1 citation , passage=She was like a Beardsley Salome , he had said . And indeed she had the narrow eyes and the high cheekbone of that creature, and as nearly the sinuosity as is compatible with human symmetry. His wooing had been brief but incisive.}}

To indicate in a written form.

(impersonal) To have a common expression; (used in singular passive voice or plural active voice to indicate a rumor or well-known fact).

* 1815 , :

They say that Hope is happiness; But genuine Love must prize the past.

* 1819 , Great Britain Court of Chancery, Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery , page 8:

It is said , a bargain cannot be set aside upon inadequacy only.

* 1841 , Christopher Marshall, The Knickerbocker (New-York Monthly Magazine) , page 379:

It’s said that fifteen wagon loads of ready-made clothes for the Virginia troops came to, and stay in, town to-night.

(informal, imperative) Let's say; used to mark an example, supposition or hypothesis.

* 1984 , (Martin Amis), Money: a suicide note?

I've followed Selina down the strip, when we're shopping, say , and she strolls on ahead, wearing sawn-off jeans and a wash-withered T-shirt

To speak; to express an opinion; to make answer; to reply.

* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

You have said ; but whether wisely or no, let the forest judge.

* (John Milton) (1608-1674)

To this argument we shall soon have said ; for what concerns it us to hear a husband divulge his household privacies?

Synonyms

* See

Derived terms

* dessay * doomsaying * nay-say * saith * sayeth * sayer * saying * there is much to be said * what do you say * you don't say

Noun

(en noun)

One's stated opinion or input into a discussion or decision.

* 2004 , Richard Rogers, Information politics on the Web

Above all, however, we would like to think that there is more to be decided, after the engines and after the humans have had their says .

References

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Etymology 2

Grammaticalization of the verb. In the case of the conjunction, it could be considered an elision of "Let's say that" and for the "for example" sense of "Let's say"

Adverb

(-)

(colloquial) (non-gloss definition, Used to gain one's attention before making an inquiry or suggestion)

Say , what did you think about the movie?

For example; let us assume.

Pick a color you think they'd like, say , peach.

He was driving pretty fast, say , fifty miles per hour.

Synonyms

* (used to gain attention) hey

Conjunction

(English Conjunctions)

(informal) (Used to introduce a hypothetical)

Say your family is starving and you don't have any money, is it ok to steal some food?

Etymology 3

From (etyl) saie, from (etyl) saga, plural of .

Noun

(-)

A type of fine cloth similar to serge.

* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.iv:

All in a kirtle of discolourd say / He clothed was

Etymology 4

Aphetic form of assay.

Verb

(en verb)

To try; to assay.

(Ben Jonson)

Noun

(en noun)

Trial by sample; assay; specimen.

* Hooker

If those principal works of God be but certain tastes and says , as if were, of that final benefit.

* Shakespeare

Thy tongue some say of breeding breathes.

Tried quality; temper; proof.

* Spenser

He found a sword of better say .

Essay; trial; attempt.

(Ben Jonson)

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