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claim
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)
- A demand of ownership made for something.
- a claim of ownership
- a claim of victory
- The thing claimed.
- The right or ground of demanding.
- You don't have any claim on my time, since I'm no longer your employee.
- 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.
- A demand of ownership for previously unowned land.
- Miners had to stake their claims during the gold rush.
- (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)
- To demand ownership of.
- To state a new fact, typically without providing evidence to prove it is true.
- To demand ownership or right to use for land.
- (law) To demand compensation or damages through the courts.
- (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
- To cause the loss of, usually by violent means.
- (archaic) To proclaim.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Spenser to this entry?)
- (archaic) To call or name.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Spenser to this entry?)
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
- first-person singular present indicative of claimen
- imperative of claimen
Descendants
- ? Indonesian: klaim
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extract
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin extractum, neuter perfect passive participle of extrah?.
Pronunciation
- (noun): enPR: ?ks'tr?kt, IPA(key): /??kst?ækt/
- (verb): enPR: ?kstr?kt', IPA(key): /?ks?t?ækt/, IPA(key): /?ks?t?ækt/
- Rhymes: -ækt
Noun
extract (plural extracts)
- Something that is extracted or drawn out.
- A portion of a book or document, incorporated distinctly in another work; a citation; a quotation.
- I used an extract of Hemingway's book to demonstrate culture shock.
- A decoction, solution, or infusion made by drawing out from any substance that which gives it its essential and characteristic virtue
- extract of beef
- extract of dandelion
- vanilla extract
- Any substance extracted is such a way, and characteristic of that from which it is obtained
- quinine is the most important extract of Peruvian bark.
- A solid preparation obtained by evaporating a solution of a drug, etc., or the fresh juice of a plant (distinguished from an abstract).
- (obsolete) A peculiar principle (fundamental essence) once erroneously supposed to form the basis of all vegetable extracts.
- Ancestry; descent.
- A draft or copy of writing; a certified copy of the proceedings in an action and the judgment therein, with an order for execution.
Synonyms
- (that which is extracted): extraction; See also Thesaurus:decrement
- (principle): extractive principle
- (ancestry, descent): origin, extraction
Derived terms
- yeast extract
Translations
See also
- tincture
Verb
extract (third-person singular simple present extracts, present participle extracting, simple past extracted, past participle extracted or (archaic) extraught)
- (transitive) To draw out; to pull out; to remove forcibly from a fixed position, as by traction or suction, etc.
- to extract a tooth from its socket, a stump from the earth, or a splinter from the finger
- (transitive) To withdraw by expression, distillation, or other mechanical or chemical process. Compare abstract (transitive verb).
- to extract an essential oil from a plant
- (transitive) To take by selection; to choose out; to cite or quote, as a passage from a book.
- 1724, Jonathan Swift, Drapier's Letters, 4
- I have thought it proper to extract out of that pamphlet a few of those notorious falsehoods.
- 1724, Jonathan Swift, Drapier's Letters, 4
- (transitive) To select parts of a whole
- We need to try to extract the positives from the defeat.
- (transitive, arithmetic) To determine (a root of a number).
Synonyms
- (to draw out): outdraw
- (to take by selection): sunder out
Translations
Dutch
Etymology
From Latin extractum.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?k?tr?kt/
- Hyphenation: ex?tract
- Rhymes: -?kt
Noun
extract n (plural extracten)
- extract, decoction
- Synonyms: aftreksel, uittreksel
Derived terms
- plantenextract
- thee-extract
Descendants
- ? Indonesian: ekstrak
Romanian
Etymology
From Latin extractus
Noun
extract n (plural extracte)
- extract
Declension
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- what extract comes from beaver
- what extract has the most alcohol
- what extracts are good for the skin
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