1. About This Guide : Conventions : Statements and Commands : Terminology
 
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Terminology
The documentation observes the following distinction in terminology:
command
Is an operation that you execute at the operating system level
statement
Is an operation that you embed within a program or execute interactively from the Terminal Monitor
A statement can be written in 4GL, a host programming language (such as C), or a database query language (SQL or QUEL).