status
    n 1: the relative position or standing of things or especially
         persons in a society; "he had the status of a minor"; "the
         novel attained the status of a classic"; "atheists do not
         enjoy a favorable position in American life" [syn:
         status, position]
    2: a state at a particular time; "a condition (or state) of
       disrepair"; "the current status of the arms negotiations"
       [syn: condition, status]

Status \Sta"tus\ (st[=a]"t[u^]s), n. [L.]
   State; condition; position of affairs.
   [1913 Webster] Status in quo

status

   1.  A description of how something is, similar to
   state but usually implying a simpler set of possibilities,
   e.g. up or down; set or clear; stopped, starting, started,
   stopping.

   In CPU hardware, the status register stores bits of
   information about the outcome of previous operations,
   e.g. zero, overflow.  These status bits can be used to
   control conditional execution, e.g. "branch if zero".  The
   same idea is common in other hardware, e.g. an input
   peripheral with a status bit to indicate end of file.

   2.  Under the Unix operating system, a
   process terminates with an exit status - an integer value
   where zero indicates successful or normal completion and
   non-zero values indicate different error conditions.

   3.  Standards and other forms of documentation can
   have different statuses such as "proposal", request for
   comments or accepted by some official body.

   (2018-09-01)

STATUS. The condition of persons. It also means estate, because it signifies 
the condition or circumstances in which the owner stands with regard to his 
property. 2 Bouv. Inst. n. 1689.