different between request vs requestress

English

Alternative forms

• requeste (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English request, from Old French requeste (French requête), from Vulgar Latin *requaesita, from Latin requ?s?ta, feminine of requ?s?tus (“requested, demanded”), past participle of requ?r? (“require, ask”). Compare to French requetér.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???kw?st/
• Rhymes: -?st
• Hyphenation: re?quest

Verb

request (third-person singular simple present requests, present participle requesting, simple past and past participle requested)

1. (transitive or with that clause) To ask for (something).

2. (transitive) To ask (somebody) to do something.

   Synonyms: ask, bespeak, call for

Translations

Noun

request (plural requests)

1. Act of requesting (with the adposition at in the presence of possessives, and on in their absence).

   Synonyms: asking, beseech, prayer, wish

   • 1839, The Law Journal for the Year 1832-1949: Comprising Reports

     The promise that arises upon an account stated, is to pay on request.

2. A formal message requesting something.

   Synonyms: petition, postulation

3. Condition of being sought after.

   Synonym: demand
4. (networking) A message sent over a network to a server.

5. (obsolete) That which is asked for or requested.

Derived terms

• discovery request
• request for admission
• request for production

Related terms

• require
• requirement
• requisite

Translations

See also

• Wiktionary:Requested entries:English

Further reading

• request on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• request in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• request in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• request at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• quester

Middle English

Alternative forms

• requeste, reqweste, rekeyste

Etymology

From Old French requeste, from Vulgar Latin *requaesita; equivalent to re- +? quest.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /r??kw?st(?)/

Noun

request (plural requestes)

1. A request or petition; a pleading or asking.
2. (Late Middle English) What is requested or petitioned for; something that is sought-after.
3. (Late Middle English) A adventure or heroic journey.

Descendants

• English: request
• Scots: request

References

• “request(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-3.

English

Etymology

requester +? -ess

Noun

requestress (plural requestresses)

1. (rare) A woman who requests; a female requester.
   • 1920: Cyrus Townsend Brady (?), The Ring and the Man, page 37 (Jarrolds)

     It amazed Gormly too, when requests and requester?—?or should I say requestress??—?were both promptly referred to him.

   • 1979: Ray Coryton Hutchinson [aut.], Martyn Skinner [aut.], and Rupert Hart-Davis [ed.], Two Men of Letters: Correspondence Between R.C. Hutchinson, Novelist, and Martyn Skinner, Poet, 1957–1974, page 173 (Joseph; ?ISBN, 9780718118419)

     Some time during the summer I produced, by request, a ballad for a Girl Guides’ Pageant on the subject of Drake’s Cannon-Ball, a local legend. It was (also by request) in the stanza of ‘Young Lochinvar’, and occupied me three days. The requestress was in raptures, but then she doesn’t know a trochee from an iambus (nor, for that matter – like de la Mare – do I).

Coordinate terms

• requester