different between implore vs demand

English

Alternative forms

• emplore (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle French implorer, from Latin impl?r? (“I beseech, I implore”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?m?pl??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?m?pl??/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /?m?plo(?)?/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /?m?plo?/
• Rhymes: -??(?)
• Hyphenation: im?plore

Verb

implore (third-person singular simple present implores, present participle imploring, simple past and past participle implored)

1. To beg urgently or earnestly.
2. To call upon or pray to earnestly; to entreat.

Synonyms

• entreat

Translations

French

Verb

implore

1. first-person singular present indicative of implorer
2. third-person singular present indicative of implorer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of implorer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of implorer
5. second-person singular imperative of implorer

Portuguese

Verb

implore

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of implorar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of implorar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of implorar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of implorar

Spanish

Verb

implore

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of implorar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of implorar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of implorar.

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