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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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suit
English
Etymology
From Middle English sute, borrowed from Anglo-Norman suite and Old French sieute, siute (modern suite), originally a participle adjective from Vulgar Latin *sequita (for sec?ta), from Latin sequi (“to follow”), because the component garments "follow each other", i.e. are worn together. See also the doublet suite. Cognate with Italian seguire and Spanish seguir. Related to sue and segue.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /s(j)u?t/
- (General American) IPA(key): /s(j)ut/
- Rhymes: -u?t
- Homophone: soot (in some dialects)
Noun
suit (plural suits)
- A set of clothes to be worn together, now especially a man's matching jacket and trousers (also business suit or lounge suit), or a similar outfit for a woman.
- (by extension) A single garment that covers the whole body: space suit, boiler suit, protective suit.
- (derogatory, slang, metonymically) A person who wears matching jacket and trousers, especially a boss or a supervisor.
- A full set of armour.
- (law) The attempt to gain an end by legal process; a process instituted in a court of law for the recovery of a right or claim; a lawsuit.
- (obsolete): The act of following or pursuing; pursuit, chase.
- Pursuit of a love-interest; wooing, courtship.
- 1725, Alexander Pope, Odyssey (original by Homer)
- Rebate your loves, each rival suit suspend,
Till this funereal web my labors end.
- Rebate your loves, each rival suit suspend,
- 1725, Alexander Pope, Odyssey (original by Homer)
- (obsolete) The act of suing; the pursuit of a particular object or goal.
- The full set of sails required for a ship.
- (card games) Each of the sets of a pack of cards distinguished by color and/or specific emblems, such as the spades, hearts, diamonds, or clubs of traditional Anglo, Hispanic, and French playing cards.
- 1785, William Cowper, The Task
- To deal and shuffle, to divide and sort
Her mingled suits and sequences.
- To deal and shuffle, to divide and sort
- 1785, William Cowper, The Task
- (obsolete) Regular order; succession.
- 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Vicissitude of Things
- Every five and thirty years the same kind and suit of weather comes again.
- (archaic) A company of attendants or followers; a retinue.
- (archaic) A group of similar or related objects or items considered as a whole; a suite (of rooms etc.)
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Related terms
- suite
Translations
See also
References
- suit on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Verb
suit (third-person singular simple present suits, present participle suiting, simple past and past participle suited)
- (transitive) To make proper or suitable; to adapt or fit.
- (said of clothes, hairstyle or other fashion item, transitive) To be suitable or apt for one's image.
- (transitive) To be appropriate or apt for.
- c. 1700, Matthew Prior, epistle to Dr. Sherlock
- Raise her notes to that sublime degree / Which suits song of piety and thee.
- c. 1700, Matthew Prior, epistle to Dr. Sherlock
- (most commonly used in the passive form, intransitive) To dress; to clothe.
- To please; to make content; to fit one's taste.
- (intransitive) To agree; to be fitted; to correspond (usually followed by to, archaically also followed by with)
- Synonyms: agree, match, answer
Derived terms
- suited and booted
- suit up
- suit yourself
- unsuited
Translations
Anagrams
- ITUs, Situ, TUIs, Tsui, UTIs, iust, situ, tuis, utis
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /s?i/
- Rhymes: -?i
- Homophone: suis
Verb
suit
- third-person singular present indicative of suivre
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?su.it/, [?s?u?t?]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?su.it/, [?su?it?]
Verb
suit
- third-person singular present active indicative of su?
Norman
Etymology
Borrowed from English suit.
Noun
suit m (plural suits)
- (Jersey) suit (of clothes)
Synonyms
- fa
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