different between demand vs refer

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 Middle English referren, from Old French referer, from Latin referre.

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: r?-fû, IPA^(key): /???f??/
• (US) enPR: r?-fûr, IPA^(key): /???f?/
• Rhymes: -??(?)
• Hyphenation: re?fer

Verb

refer (third-person singular simple present refers, present participle referring, simple past and past participle referred)

1. (transitive) To direct the attention of.

2. (transitive) To submit to (another person or group) for consideration; to send or direct elsewhere.

3. (transitive) To place in or under by a mental or rational process; to assign to, as a class, a cause, source, a motive, reason, or ground of explanation.

4. (intransitive, construed with to) To allude to, make a reference or allusion to.

5. (Can we add an example for this sense?) (grammar) To be referential to another element in a sentence.
6. (Can we add an example for this sense?) (computing) To address a specific location in computer memory.
7. (education) Required to resit an examination.

Synonyms

• delegate
• direct

Derived terms

• refer to
• refer someone to

Related terms

• reference
• referral
• relate
• relative
• relation
• relationship

Translations

Further reading

• refer on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Ferre, Freer, Frere, freer

Catalan

Etymology

re- +? fer (“to do”).

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /r??fe/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /re?fe?/

Verb

refer (first-person singular present refaig, past participle refet)

1. to redo

Conjugation

Further reading

• “refer” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “refer” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “refer” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “refer” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Latin

Verb

refer

1. second-person singular present active imperative of refer?