Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word CLAIM

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Definitions of CLAIM

1. A demand of ownership made for something.
2. The thing claimed.
3. The right or ground of demanding.
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.
5. A demand of ownership for previously unowned land.
6. To demand ownership of.
7. To state a new fact, typically without providing evidence to prove it is true.
8. To demand ownership or right to use for land.
9. (legal) A legal demand for compensation or damages.
10. (legal) To demand compensation or damages through the courts.
11. (intransitive) To be entitled to anything; to deduce a right or title; to have a claim.
12. To cause the loss of.
13. To win as a prize in a sport or competition.
14. (obsolete) To proclaim.
15. (archaic) To call or name.

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Examples of Using CLAIM in a Sentence

• A hypothesis with no supporting, objective, testable evidence is not an objective, scientific claim.
• Consequently, an adult who engages in sexual activity with a person younger than the age of consent is unable to legally claim that the sexual activity was consensual, and such sexual activity may be considered child sexual abuse or statutory rape.
• 1139 – Roger II of Sicily is excommunicated by Innocent II for supporting Anacletus II as pope for seven years, even though Roger had already publicly recognized Innocent's claim to the papacy.
• Apostolic succession is the method whereby the ministry of the Christian Church is considered by some Christian denominations to be derived from the apostles by a continuous succession, which has usually been associated with a claim that the succession is through a series of bishops.
• Though proponents claim to present their ideas in a manner that is verifiable by rational discourse and say that they seek precision and clarity comparable to that obtained by scientists investigating the physical world, many of these ideas have been termed pseudoscientific by experts in epistemology and debunkers of pseudoscience.
• The Mossi claim descent from warriors who migrated to present-day Burkina Faso and established an empire that lasted more than 800 years.
• Blood libel or ritual murder libel (also blood accusation) Echoing very old myths of secret cultic practices in many prehistoric societies, the claim, as it is leveled against Jews, was rarely attested to in antiquity.
• This book's claim that many environmental issues are overstated was criticized by the scientific community and brought Lomborg popular media attention.
• Many notable Celtic musicians such as Alan Stivell and Paddy Moloney claim that the different Celtic music genres have a lot in common.
• The term creationism most often refers to belief in special creation: the claim that the universe and lifeforms were created as they exist today by divine action, and that the only true explanations are those which are compatible with a Christian fundamentalist literal interpretation of the creation myth found in the Bible's Genesis creation narrative.
• As interest in the island grew, Mexico asserted a claim to the island based upon Spanish records from the 1520s that may have identified the island.
• Most optical analyses to date have concluded that the images are insects moving across the frame as the photo is being captured, although cryptozoologists and ufologists claim that they are paranormal in nature.
• In legal terminology, a complaint is any formal legal document that sets out the facts and legal reasons (see: cause of action) that the filing party or parties (the plaintiff(s)) believes are sufficient to support a claim against the party or parties against whom the claim is brought (the defendant(s)) that entitles the plaintiff(s) to a remedy (either money damages or injunctive relief).
• Direct examination is usually performed to elicit evidence in support of facts which will satisfy a required element of a party's claim or defense.
• The Duesberg hypothesis is the claim that AIDS is not caused by HIV, but instead that AIDS is caused by noninfectious factors such as recreational and pharmaceutical drug use and that HIV is merely a harmless passenger virus.
• AD 69 – Antonius Primus enters Rome to claim the title of Emperor for Nero's former general Vespasian.
• Franz, Duke of Bavaria (born 1933), called "Francis II" by supporters of the Jacobite claim to the thrones of England, Scotland, Ireland, and France.
• The council sought to bring an end to the practice of the conferring of ecclesiastical benefices by people who were laymen, free the election of bishops and abbots from secular influence, clarify the separation of spiritual and temporal affairs, re-establish the principle that spiritual authority resides solely in the Church and abolish the claim of the Holy Roman Emperor to influence papal elections.
• Some anarcho-capitalists claim anarcho-capitalism is part of the individualist anarchist tradition, while others disagree and claim individualist anarchism is only part of the socialist movement and part of the libertarian socialist tradition.
• Intergovernmentalist approaches claim to be able to explain both periods of radical change in the European Union because of converging governmental preferences and periods of inertia because of diverging national interests.
• Idealism in philosophy, also known as philosophical idealism or metaphysical idealism, is the set of metaphysical perspectives asserting that, most fundamentally, reality is equivalent to mind, spirit, or consciousness; that reality is entirely a mental construct; or that ideas are the highest type of reality or have the greatest claim to being considered "real".
• Due to the English kings' continuing claim to the Duchy of Normandy, Jersey's Norman political and legal structures remained after the split, which led to the establishment of self-governance as a Crown Dependency.
• Although the Iraqi government, which had first asserted a claim to rule Kuwait in 1938, recognized the borders with Kuwait in 1963 (based on agreements made earlier in the century), it continued to press Kuwait for control over Bubiyan and Warbah islands through the 1960s and 1970s.
• This premise has the form of a disjunctive claim: it asserts that one among a number of alternatives must be true.
• No true Scotsman or appeal to purity is an informal fallacy in which one modifies a prior claim in response to a counterexample by asserting the counterexample is excluded by definition.

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