what's a claim?

Question

for writing a paper

Answer 1

1 a : to ask for especially as a right b : to call for : REQUIRE c : TAKE 16b
2 : to take as the rightful owner
3 a : to assert in the face of possible contradiction : MAINTAIN b : to claim to have c : to assert to be rightfully one's own
synonym see DEMAND

Answer 2

claim

TRANSITIVE VERB:
claimed , claim·ing , claims
To demand, ask for, or take as one's own or one's due: claim a reward; claim one's luggage at the airport carousel.
To take in a violent manner as if by right: a hurricane that claimed two lives.
To state to be true, especially when open to question; assert or maintain: claimed he had won the race; a candidate claiming many supporters.
To deserve or call for; require: problems that claim her attention.

NOUN:
A demand for something as rightful or due.
A basis for demanding something; a title or right.
Something claimed in a formal or legal manner, especially a tract of public land staked out by a miner or homesteader.

A demand for payment in accordance with an insurance policy or other formal arrangement.
The sum of money demanded.
A statement of something as a fact; an assertion of truth: makes no claim to be a cure.

IDIOM:
lay claim to
To assert one's right to or ownership of.

Answer 3

It depends on what context the word is being used in.
Try looking in the dictionary or thesaurus.

Answer 4

There are lots of claims, which do you mean?
patent claim, claim court, claim language, claim construction, my claim that your question about a claim is a tad open ended, a misspelled clam,etc.

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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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. ``A bar to all claims upon land.'' --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. ``Doth he lay claim to thine inheritance?'' --Shak.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Claim \Claim\ (kl[=a]m), v.?. [imp. & p. p. Claimed (kl[=a]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.]
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Answer 5

they come from the ocean and make pearls.

Answer 6

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