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Borrowed from Latin statim (“immediately”).

stat (not comparable)

  1. (medicine, informal) Immediately; now.
  2. (slang, humorous, by extension) Immediately.
    • 2022 June 27, Megan Uy, “Where to Get That Cute Tie-Dye Hoodie on ‘Only Murders in the Building’”, in Cosmopolitan‎[1]:
      TBH, I’d get to shopping STAT because these hoodies will for sure sell like hotcakes once season 2 premieres on June 28. So make sure to snag one for yourself before they sell out and mark your calendar for the big day!

stat (not comparable)

  1. (medicine) With no delay; at once.
    stat dose

Clipping of statistic.

stat (plural stats)

  1. (especially in the plural) Clipping of statistic.
    • 2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques: Chester (1848)”, in Rail, number 947, page 57:
      There are some glittering stats out there regarding Brassey: namely that he'd built around one-third of Britain's railways by the time he was in his early 40s, and that by the time of his death (aged 65) he was responsible for around one-twentieth of the world's railways.

stat (third-person singular simple present stats, present participle statting, simple past and past participle statted)

  1. (transitive, chiefly sports, informal) To collect or interpret statistics related to (a match etc.).
    • 2014 September 16, Sam King, “Purdue volleyball notes: Madness in Mackey Arena”, in Journal & Courier‎[2]:
      "I went back and statted that match," Shondell said. "Seventy percent of the points, we either finished them with a kill or making an error. So we were in control, it's just that we weren't in control the way we needed to be on a regular basis."
    • 2015 July 27, Joe Gorman, “The stats guru helping keep alive football history in Australia”, in The Guardian‎[3]:
      The most important part of the collection, however, is Howe’s folders of stats. […] All up, he reckons he’s statted over 10,000 Australian matches at all levels. It’s all been digitised now, of course, but to this day Howe maintains a hand-written record.
  2. (transitive, roleplaying games, slang) To assign statistics to (a monster etc. in a game).
    Synonym: stat out
    If you stat it, they will kill it.

Clipping of statutory.

stat (plural stats)

  1. (Canada, informal) A statutory public holiday (also as stat holiday).

Clipping of photostat.

stat (plural stats)

  1. (informal) Clipping of photostat.
    • 1983 February 12, F. W. Leupold, “Lesbirotic Electrographics”, in Gay Community News, volume 10, number 29, page 12:
      These Poloroids [_sic_] are then enlarged by a stat camera or a copier with an enlarging feature, colored electrographically, transferred to acetate pieces, and fused or sewn together into quilts.

stat (third-person singular simple present stats, present participle statting, simple past and past participle statted)

  1. (informal) Clipping of photostat.
    • 2009, Kevin Tinsley, Digital Prepress for Comic Books, New York, NY: Stickman Graphics, →ISBN, page 96:
      These overlays were then statted using a screen of etched glass to break up the solid black into small rows of black dots. A different sized screen was used to create a different sized dot for each percentage.

Borrowed from Italian stato or Latin status.

stat n (plural staturi)

  1. state, country

From Latin status. Compare Romanian stat.

stat m (feminine statã)

  1. (masculine singular past passive participle of stau used as an adjective) stayed, stopped, remained; stood
  2. resided

Clipping of English statistics, reinforced by English stat.

stat

  1. (Hong Kong Cantonese, chiefly university slang) statistics (mathematical science)

Ultimately from Latin stātus, either via Middle English stat and Old French estat, or via Proto-Brythonic *ɨstad.

stat m (plural statys or statow)

  1. (politics) state, polity
  2. situation, state, affair
  3. estate

From Middle Low German stat, from Latin status.

stat c (singular definite staten, plural indefinite stater)

  1. A state (polity).

From Latin stātus.

stat m (plural stac)

  1. A state.

stat

  1. third-person singular present active indicative of stō

From Latin stātus.

stat m

  1. state

Borrowed from Sicilian statu and/or Italian stato, both from Latin status.

stat m (plural stati)

  1. state (condition)
  2. state, country, government

From Old Dutch stat, from Proto-West Germanic *stadi. The umlauted form stēde derives from Old Dutch stedi, a variant which hadn't lost the final -i.

stat f or m

  1. place
  2. position, station (of duty)
  3. rank, status
  4. space, room
  5. city

Strong feminine noun (irregular)

| | singular | plural | | | ----------- | ----------- | ------ | | nominative | stat | stēde | | accusative | stat | stēde | | genitive | stat, stēde | stēde | | dative | stat, stēde | stēden |

Strong masculine noun (irregular)

| | singular | plural | | | ----------- | ------ | ------ | | nominative | stat | stēde | | accusative | stat | stēde | | genitive | stēdes | stēde | | dative | stēde | stēden |

From Old French estat, from Latin status.

stat (plural stats)

  1. condition

From Middle Low German stat (“state, rank”), from Latin status (“fixed, set, regular”), perfect passive participle of sistō (“to cause to stand, set, place”), from Proto-Italic *sistō (“stand, place”), from Proto-Indo-European *stísteh₂ti (“to be standing up, to be getting up”), from the root *steh₂- (“to stand (up)”), and also the perfect passive participle of stō, from the same root.

stat m (definite singular staten, indefinite plural stater, definite plural statene)

  1. a state

Borrowed from Middle Low German stat, from Latin status.

stat m (definite singular staten, indefinite plural statar, definite plural statane)

  1. a state, country
    Frankrike er ein av dei største statane i Europa.
    France is one of the largest countries of Europe.
  2. (definite form) the government, authorities
    Eg har fått meg jobb i staten.
    I have got a job working for the government.

From Proto-West Germanic *stadi.

stat f

  1. place, location
  2. house, abode
  3. town, inhabited place

From Proto-West Germanic *stadi, from Proto-Germanic *stadiz.

Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *stéh₂tis, an extension of *steh₂- and, thus, related to stehen and Stuhl.

stat

  1. place, site, spot
  2. place, settlement (but yet without any restriction to “town, city”, for which burg)

From Dutch stad.

stat

  1. city, town

Fro Latin stātus.

stat m

  1. state

Borrowed from Italian stato or Latin stātus.

stat n (plural state)

  1. state, government
    Synonyms: țară, guvern, regim

Inherited from Latin stātus.

stat n (plural state)

  1. state, condition
    Synonyms: stare, condiție
  2. situation, position
    Synonyms: situație, poziție
  3. class; category; stature
    Synonym: clasă
  4. list
    Synonyms: listă, tabel

stat

  1. past participle of sta

From Middle Low German stat, from Latin status.

stat c

  1. A state; a nation.
  2. A state; a government; collectively about the ruling hierarchy of a country.
  3. A state; part of a federation.
  4. (uncountable) A salary paid in kind, usually in combination with a small amount in cash, for agricultural workers abolished with the end of October 1945 (through a collective bargaining agreement). Formerly of wider use, for instance also for some civil servants.

(nation, government):

(salary):

stat

  1. A tense marker that shows that an action is beginning by preceding the verb

From Ottoman Turkish ستاد (stad), from French stade, from Latin stadium, from Ancient Greek στάδιον (stádion).

stat (definite accusative stadı, plural statlar)

  1. stadium