What is the difference between claim and thesis?
claim | thesis |
A demand of ownership made for something (e.g. claim ownership, claim victory).
A new statement of truth made about something, usually when the statement has yet to be verified.
A demand of ownership for previously unowned land (e.g. in the gold rush, oil rush)
(legal) A legal demand for compensation or damages.
To demand ownership of.
To state a new fact, typically without providing evidence to prove it is true.
To demand ownership or right to use for land.
(legal) To demand compensation or damages through the courts.
To be entitled to anything; to deduce a right or title; to have a claim.
* John Locke
To proclaim.
To call or name.
A statement supported by arguments.
A written essay, especially one submitted for a university degree.
* Goldsmith
(logic) An affirmation, or distinction from a supposition or hypothesis.
(music) The accented part of the measure, expressed by the downward beat; the opposite of arsis.
(poetry) The depression of the voice in pronouncing the syllables of a word.
(poetry) The part of the metrical foot upon which such a depression falls.
In lang=en terms the difference between claim and thesis
is that claim is to demand compensation or damages through the courts while thesis is the accented part of the measure, expressed by the downward beat; the opposite of arsis.As nouns the difference between claim and thesis
is that claim is a demand of ownership made for something (e.g. claim ownership, claim victory) while thesis is a statement supported by arguments.As a verb claim
is to demand ownership of.claim
English
Alternative forms
* claym (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)Usage notes
* Demand ownership of land not previously owned. One usually stakes a claim. * The legal sense. One usually makes a claim. SeeVerb
(en verb)- We must know how the first ruler, from whom anyone claims , came by his authority.
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* English reporting verbs ----thesis
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Noun
(theses)- I told them of the grave, becoming, and sublime deportment they should assume upon this mystical occasion, and read them two homilies and a thesis of my own composing, to prepare them.