During its execution, a THREAD can reside in one of the following states:
• Runnable: A thread becomes ready to run, but does not necessarily START running immediately.
• Running: The processor is actively EXECUTING the thread code.
• Waiting: A thread is in a blocked state waiting for some external processing to finish.
• Sleeping: The thread is forced to sleep.
• Blocked on I/O: Waiting for an I/O operation to complete.
• Blocked on Synchronization: Waiting to acquire a lock.
• Dead: The thread has FINISHED its execution.

During its execution, a thread can reside in one of the following states:
• Runnable: A thread becomes ready to run, but does not necessarily start running immediately.
• Running: The processor is actively executing the thread code.
• Waiting: A thread is in a blocked state waiting for some external processing to finish.
• Sleeping: The thread is forced to sleep.
• Blocked on I/O: Waiting for an I/O operation to complete.
• Blocked on Synchronization: Waiting to acquire a lock.
• Dead: The thread has finished its execution.