different between vouch vs claim
vouch
English
Etymology
From Middle English vouchen, that borrowed from Old French voucher, from Latin voc?re, present active infinitive of voc?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?va?t?/
- Rhymes: -a?t?
Verb
vouch (third-person singular simple present vouches, present participle vouching, simple past and past participle vouched)
- To take responsibility for; to express confidence in; to witness; to obtest.
- To warrant; to maintain by affirmations
- Synonyms: attest, affirm, avouch
- October 28, 1705, Francis Atterbury, a sermon
- They made him ashamed first to vouch the truth of the relation, and afterwards to credit it.
- To back; to support; to confirm.
- To call into court to warrant and defend, or to make good a warranty of title.
- (obsolete) To call; to summon.
- 1531, Thomas Elyot, The Boke named the Governour
- [They] vouch (as I might say) to their aid the authority of the writers.
- 1531, Thomas Elyot, The Boke named the Governour
- To bear witness; to give testimony or full attestation.
- To call as a witness.
- To assert; to aver; to declare.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Shakespeare to this entry?)
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Related terms
- avouch
Translations
Noun
vouch (plural vouches)
- Warrant; attestation.
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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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