Statement vs Utterance - What's the difference?
statement | utterance |
A declaration or remark.
A presentation of opinion or position.
(finance) A document that summarizes financial activity.
(computing) An instruction in a computer program.
To provide an official document of a proposition, especially in the UK a Statement of Special Educational Needs.
An act of uttering.
* (John Milton)
Something spoken.
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, title= * 2005 , (Plato), Sophist . Translation by Lesley Brown. .
The ability to speak.
Manner of speaking.
* Bible, Acts ii. 4
* (John Keats)
(obsolete) Sale by offering to the public.
(obsolete) Putting in circulation.
The utmost extremity (of a fight etc.).
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*:And soo they mette soo hard / that syre Palomydes felle to the erthe hors and alle / Thenne sir Bleoberis cryed a lowde and said thus / make the redy thou fals traytour knyghte Breuse saunce pyte / for wete thow certaynly I wille haue adoo with the to the vtteraunce for the noble knyghtes and ladyes that thou hast falsly bitraid
As nouns the difference between statement and utterance
is that statement is a declaration or remark while utterance is an act of uttering.As a verb statement
is to provide an official document of a proposition, especially in the UK a Statement of Special Educational Needs.statement
English
Etymology 1
From .Noun
(en noun)- a bank statement
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* environmental impact statement * fashion statement * financial statement * impact statement * mission statement * statemental * victim impact statement * vision statementEtymology 2
and statementedVerb
(en verb)See also
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*utterance
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Alternative forms
* utteraunceEtymology 1
FromNoun
(en noun)- at length gave utterance to these words
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=“[…] They talk of you as if you were Croesus—and I expect the beggars sponge on you unconscionably.” And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances . He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes.}}
- To know how one should express oneself in saying or judging that there really are falsehoods without getting caught up in contradiction by such an utterance : that's extremely difficult, Theaetetus.
- Theybegan to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance .
- O, how unlike / To that large utterance of the early gods!
- (Francis Bacon)