different between claim vs deny

English

Alternative forms

• claym (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English claimen, borrowed from Old French clamer (“to call, name, send for”), from Latin cl?m?, cl?m?re (“to call, cry out”), from Proto-Indo-European *kelh?- (“to shout”), which is imitative; see also Lithuanian kalba (“language”), Old English hl?wan (“to low, make a noise like a cow”), Old High German halan (“to call”), Ancient Greek ????? (kalé?, “to call, convoke”), ?????? (kledon, “report, fame”), ??????? (kélados, “noise”), Middle Irish cailech (“cock”), Latin cal? (“to call out, announce solemnly”), Sanskrit ????? (u?a?kala, “cock”, literally “dawn-calling”). Cognate with Spanish llamar and clamar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kle?m/
• Rhymes: -e?m

Noun

claim (plural claims)

1. A demand of ownership made for something.

   a claim of ownership

   a claim of victory

2. The thing claimed.
3. The right or ground of demanding.

   You don't have any claim on my time, since I'm no longer your employee.

4. A new statement of something one believes to be the truth, usually when the statement has yet to be verified or without valid evidence provided.

   The company's share price dropped amid claims of accounting fraud.

5. A demand of ownership for previously unowned land.

   Miners had to stake their claims during the gold rush.

6. (law) A legal demand for compensation or damages.

Usage notes

• Demand ownership of land not previously owned. One usually stakes a claim.
• The legal sense. One usually makes a claim. See Appendix:Collocations of do, have, make, and take

Descendants

• ? Afrikaans: kleim
• ? Dutch: claimen

Translations

Verb

claim (third-person singular simple present claims, present participle claiming, simple past and past participle claimed)

1. To demand ownership of.
2. To state a new fact, typically without providing evidence to prove it is true.
3. To demand ownership or right to use for land.
4. (law) To demand compensation or damages through the courts.
5. (intransitive) To be entitled to anything; to deduce a right or title; to have a claim.

   • We must know how the first ruler, from whom any one claims, came by his authority, upon what ground any one has empire

6. To cause the loss of, usually by violent means.

7. (archaic) To proclaim.

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8. (archaic) To call or name.

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Translations

Related terms

• claimable
• claimant
• claimer
• disclaim
• disclaimer

Further reading

• claim in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• claim in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• malic

Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

claim

1. first-person singular present indicative of claimen
2. imperative of claimen

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: klaim

English

Etymology

From Middle English denyen, from Old French denoier (“to deny, to repudiate”) (French dénier), from Latin denegare (“to deny, to refuse”), from de- (“away”) and negare (“to refuse”), the latter ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ne (“no, not”). Doublet of denegate.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /d??na?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /d??na?/, /d?-/
• Rhymes: -a?
• Hyphenation: de?ny

Verb

deny (third-person singular simple present denies, present participle denying, simple past and past participle denied)

1. (transitive) To disallow or reject.
2. (transitive) To assert that something is not true.
3. (ditransitive) To refuse to give or grant something to someone.
   • 1754, Jonathan Edwards, An Inquiry into the Modern Prevailing Notions Respecting that Freedom of the Will which is supposed to be Essential to Moral Agency

     To some men, it is more agreeable to deny a vicious inclination, than to gratify it.
4. To take something away from someone; to deprive of.
5. (sports, transitive) To prevent from scoring.
6. To disclaim connection with, responsibility for, etc.; to refuse to acknowledge; to disown; to abjure; to disavow.
   • 1834-1874, George Bancroft, History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent.

     the falsehood of denying his opinion

   • 1827, John Keble, The Christian Year

     thou thrice denied, yet thrice beloved

7. (obsolete) To refuse (to do or accept something).

Usage notes

• This is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (-ing). See Appendix:English catenative verbs.
• Deny can have a connotation that the denial is false; he denied knowing the accused has a more suspicious tone than he said he did not know the accused. However, in some formal usages, e.g. medical records, it can have a more neutral sense (patient denies chest pain).
• See refute.

Conjugation

Synonyms

• (assert something is not true): gainsay, contradict, withsay, refute, disclaim

Antonyms

• (disallow): allow
• (assert something is true): confirm, affirm

Derived terms

• deniability
• denier
• justice delayed is justice denied

Related terms

• denial

Translations

Anagrams

• E.D.N.Y., Ynde, dyne