Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To demand, ask for, or take as one's own or one's due.
- transitive verb To take in a violent manner as if by right.
- transitive verb To state to be true, especially when open to question; assert or maintain.
- transitive verb To deserve or call for; require.
- noun A demand for something as rightful or due.
- noun A basis for demanding something; a title or right.
- noun Something claimed in a formal or legal manner, especially a tract of public land staked out by a miner or homesteader.
- noun A demand for payment in accordance with an insurance policy or other formal arrangement.
- noun The sum of money demanded.
- noun A statement of something as a fact; an assertion of truth.
- idiom (lay claim to) To assert one's right to or ownership of.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A cry; a call, as for aid.
- noun A demand of a right or alleged right; a calling on another for something due or asserted to be due: as, a claim of wages for services.
- noun A right to claim or demand; a just title to something in one's own possession or in the possession or at the disposal of another.
- noun The thing claimed or demanded; specifically, a piece of public land which a squatter or settler marks out for himself with the intention of purchasing it when the government offers it for sale: as, he staked out a claim.
- noun Hence A piece of land obtained in this manner; specifically, in mining, the portion of mineral ground held by an individual or an association in accordance with the local mining-laws of the district.
- To stick; paste: as, to
claim up an advertisement. - To clog; overload.
- To call; call out; cry out.
- To be entitled to a thing; have a right; derive a right; especially, to derive a right by descent.
- To assert, a claim; put forward a claim.
- To assert a belief or an opinion; maintain; assert.
- To proclaim.
- To call or name.
- To ask or demand by virtue of a right or asserted right to the possession of the thing demanded, or of authority to demand it; demand as a right or as due; assert a right to: as, to
claim obedience or respect; to claim an estate by descent; to claim payment: with from or of before the person on whom the claim is made. - To hold or maintain as a fact or as true; assert as a fact, or as one's own belief or opinion: as, I claim that he is right.
- Synonyms Request, Beg, etc. See
ask .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To be entitled to anything; to deduce a right or title; to have a claim.
- transitive verb To ask for, or seek to obtain, by virtue of authority, right, or supposed right; to challenge as a right; to demand as due.
- transitive verb obsolete To proclaim.
- transitive verb obsolete To call or name.
- transitive verb colloq. To assert; to maintain.
- noun A demand of a right or supposed right; a calling on another for something due or supposed to be due; an assertion of a right or fact.
- noun A right to claim or demand something; a title to any debt, privilege, or other thing in possession of another; also, a title to anything which another should give or concede to, or confer on, the claimant.
- noun U.S. & Australia The thing claimed or demanded; that (as land) to which any one intends to establish a right; .
- noun obsolete A loud call.
- noun to demand as a right.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
demand of ownership made for something (eg. claim ownership, claim victory). - noun A new statement of truth made about something, usually when the statement has yet to be verified.
- noun A demand of ownership for previously unowned land (eg. in the gold rush, oil rush)
- noun law A legal demand for
compensation ordamages . - verb To
demand ownership of. - verb To
state anew fact , typically without providing evidence to prove it is true. - verb To demand ownership or
right touse forland . - verb law To
demand compensation ordamages through the courts.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an assertion that something is true or factual
- noun an informal right to something
- noun demand for something as rightful or due
- verb assert or affirm strongly; state to be true or existing
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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Since the time that photography laid its claim to be reckoned among the fine arts the attention of artists has been attracted first by the _claim_ and thereafter, with acknowledgments, to the _performance.
Pictorial Composition and the Critical Judgment of Pictures Henry Rankin Poore 1899
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To regard sickness as a false claim, is to abate the fear of it; but this does not destroy the so-called fact of the _claim_.
Unity of Good Mary Baker Eddy 1865
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_claim_, but it is observable that the claim failed, and that the supposed villain was adjudged to be a free man.
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When you read the paper, their main claim is that white players benefit disproportionately from white refs (although blacks also see a smaller benefit).
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Very little of the label claim here has to do with labels.
"The feminist movement has a right to define what constitutes being a member, and I'm not going to appropriate their label if it bothers them..." Ann Althouse 2008
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In their pitch to retailers, sales representatives for the label claim that the quality of its Chinese-made suits is as good, if not better, than higher-priced suits made in Italy or the U.S.
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"As a result of a title claim brought by Dennis Hopper's estranged wife, Christie's must withdraw 32 items from the sale until such time as the title claim is resolved," said a spokeswoman for the auction house last night.
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"As a result of a title claim," the London-based auction house said in an e-mailed statement before the sale started, "Christie's must withdraw 32 items from the sale until such time as the title claim is resolved."
Christie's Withdraws Dennis Hopper Lots on Court Claim; Mao Makes $302,500 - Bloomberg 2011
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Going into the final day on Thursday, there is hardly a threat to her title claim as second placed Nikita Arjun, Saniya Sharma, Nitika Jadeja and Nalini
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