Standing up and saying out loud 'this is true' or 'this is mine' — putting in a public bid for something, whether it's a fact you insist on or a thing you say you have a right to. The shared move is asserting, often before anyone has proved you right.
From the word’s history
From Latin 'clamare' meaning 'to cry out, call'. The same root gives 'exclaim', 'proclaim'. The core is a public 'crying out' — calling something true, or calling something yours.
源自拉丁文 clamare（喊、叫出來）。同字根也造出 exclaim（驚呼）、proclaim（宣告）。核心可以想成「當眾喊出來」——喊說某事為真，或喊說某物是我的。
Online Etymology Dictionary (etymonline.com), entry 'claim'
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原始詞典資料15 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
claimnoun/kleɪm/
- 1
A demand of ownership made for something.
- a claim of ownership
- a claim of victory
- 2
The thing claimed.
- 3
The right or ground of demanding.
- You don't have any claim on my time, since I'm no longer your employee.
- 4
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.
- Bailey, in using accents, felt that he was 'directing to their proper pronuntiation' and showing 'the Orthoepia of the English Tongue' (title page, Dictionarium Britannicum, 1730 edition). The claim is ridiculous.
- 5
A demand of ownership for previously unowned land.
- Miners had to stake their claims during the gold rush.
- 6
lawA legal demand for compensation or damages.
claimverb/kleɪm/
- 1
To demand ownership of.
- Jeffrey Chuang, an economics student at University College London, said: "I am for independence. I do not think China has any right to claim Taiwan. We have confidence in our country and we know that China is not capable of doing anything to us."
- 2
To state a new fact, typically without providing evidence to prove it is true.
- 3
To demand ownership or right to use for land.
- 4
lawTo demand compensation or damages through the courts.
- 5
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
- 6
To cause the loss of.
- The attacks claimed the lives of five people.
- A fire claimed two homes.
- 7
To win as a prize in a sport or competition.
- He claimed $100 after winning the top spot.
- 8
obsoleteTo proclaim.
另外 1 個記錄的用法
- 9
archaicTo call or name.
- Nor all, that else through all the world is named[…] / Might like to this be clamed.
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