Question: What are the states of a thread?

• NEW
  A thread that has not yet started is in this state.
• RUNNABLE
  A thread executing in the Java virtual machine is in this state.
• BLOCKED
  A thread that is blocked waiting for a monitor lock is in this state.
• WAITING
  A thread that is waiting indefinitely for another thread to perform a particular action is in this state.
• TIMED_WAITING
  A thread that is waiting for another thread to perform an action for up to a specified waiting time is in this state.
• TERMINATED
  A thread that has exited is in this state.

A thread can be in only one state at a given point in time. These states are virtual machine states which do not reflect any operating system thread states.