claim

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1. claim - Noun

2. claim - Verb

Meaning

To ask for, or seek to obtain, by virtue of authority, right, or supposed right; to challenge as a right; to demand as due.

To proclaim.

To call or name.

To assert; to maintain.

To be entitled to anything; to deduce a right or title; to have a claim.

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.

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.

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.

A loud call.

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I have noticed that even people who claim everything is predetermined and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road. Stephen Hawking

Tolerance is giving to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself. Robert G. Ingersoll

There are a lot of bands who claim to be punk and they only play the music, they have no clue what it's all about. It's a lifestyle. It's not about popularity and all that crap. Billie Joe Armstrong

The monkey and gorilla may claim kinship, but the monkey is a monkey and the gorilla is a gorilla. African Proverb

You can't claim heaven as your own if you are just going to sit under it. Cambodian Proverb

If he hasn't seen her/his father, he would claim to be a king. Persian Proverb

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