Claim : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Claim	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for Claim
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
claim n an assertion of a right (as to money or property); "his claim asked for damages" an assertion that something is true or factual; "his claim that he was innocent"; "evidence contradicted the government's claims" demand for something as rightful or due; "they struck in support of their claim for a shorter work day" an informal right to something; "his claim on her attentions"; "his title to fame" Synonym(s): claim, title an established or recognized right; "a strong legal claim to the property"; "he had no documents confirming his title to his father's estate"; "he staked his claim" Synonym(s): title, claim a demand especially in the phrase "the call of duty" Synonym(s): call, claim v assert or affirm strongly; state to be true or existing; "He claimed that he killed the burglar" Antonym(s): disclaim demand as being one's due or property; assert one's right or title to; "He claimed his suitcases at the airline counter"; "Mr. Smith claims special tax exemptions because he is a foreign resident" Synonym(s): claim, lay claim, arrogate Antonym(s): forego, forfeit, forgo, give up, throw overboard, waive ask for legally or make a legal claim to, as of debts, for example; "They claimed on the maximum allowable amount" lay claim to; as of an idea; "She took credit for the whole idea" Synonym(s): claim, take Antonym(s): disclaim take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs; "the accident claimed three lives"; "The hard work took its toll on her" Synonym(s): claim, take, exact
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Claim \Claim\ (kl[be]m), v.[?]. [imp. & p. p. {Claimed} (kl[be]md); p. pr. & vb. n. {Claiming}.] [OE. clamen, claimen, OF. clamer, fr. L. clamare to cry out, call; akin to calare to proclaim, Gr. [?] to call, Skr. kal to sound, G. holen to fetch, E. hale haul.] 1. To ask for, or seek to obtain, by virtue of authority, right, or supposed right; to challenge as a right; to demand as due. 2. To proclaim. [Obs.] --Spenser. 3. To call or name. [Obs.] --Spenser. 4. To assert; to maintain. [Colloq.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Claim \Claim\, v. i. 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. --Locke.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Claim \Claim\, n. [Of. claim cry, complaint, from clamer. See {Claim}, v. t.] 1. A demand of a right or supposed right; a calling on another for something due or supposed to be due; an assertion of a right or fact. 2. A right to claim or demand something; a title to any debt, privilege, or other thing in possession of another; also, a title to anything which another should give or concede to, or confer on, the claimant. [bd]A bar to all claims upon land.[b8] --Hallam. 3. The thing claimed or demanded; that (as land) to which any one intends to establish a right; as a settler's claim; a miner's claim. [U.S. & Australia] 4. A loud call. [Obs.] --Spenser {To lay claim to}, to demand as a right. [bd]Doth he lay claim to thine inheritance?[b8] --Shak.