different between demand vs interrogate

English

Alternative forms

• demaund, demaunde (obsolete)

Etymology

From late Middle English demaunden, from Old French demander, from Latin d?mand?, d?mand?re.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /d??m??nd/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /d??mænd/, /d??mænd/
• Rhymes: -??nd, -ænd
• Hyphenation: de?mand

Noun

demand (countable and uncountable, plural demands)

1. The desire to purchase goods and services.
2. (economics) The amount of a good or service that consumers are willing to buy at a particular price.
3. A forceful claim for something.
4. A requirement.

5. An urgent request.

6. An order.
7. (electricity supply) More precisely peak demand or peak load, a measure of the maximum power load of a utility's customer over a short period of time; the power load integrated over a specified time interval.

Usage notes

One can also make demands on someone.

• See Appendix:Collocations of do, have, make, and take for uses and meaning of demand collocated with these words.

Synonyms

• (a requirement): imposition

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

demand (third-person singular simple present demands, present participle demanding, simple past and past participle demanded)

1. To request forcefully.

2. To claim a right to something.

3. To ask forcefully for information.

4. To require of someone.

5. (law) To issue a summons to court.

Synonyms

• call for

• insist
• (ask strongly): frain

Translations

Anagrams

• Dedman, Madden, damned, madden, manded

English

Etymology

From Latin interrog?tus, past participle of interrog?re (“to ask, question”), from inter (“between”) + rog?re (“to ask”); see rogation.

Pronunciation

Verb

interrogate (third-person singular simple present interrogates, present participle interrogating, simple past and past participle interrogated)

1. (transitive) to question or quiz, especially in a thorough and/or aggressive manner

2. (transitive, computing) to query; to request information from.

3. (transitive, literary) to examine critically.
   • 2015. Rita Kiki Edozie, Curtis Stokes. Malcolm X's Michigan Worldview: An Exemplar for Contemporary Black Studies. Michigan State University Press.

     Griffin's approach allows her to reveal Billie Holiday's resilient strength of character and to interrogate the racism she endured, which was as tragic as her personal mistakes.

Related terms

Translations

References

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

Italian

Verb

interrogate

1. second-person plural present indicative of interrogare
2. second-person plural imperative of interrogare
3. feminine plural of interrogato

Anagrams

• integratore, reintegrato

Latin

Verb

interrog?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of interrog?