Claim vs Clare - What's the difference?
claim | clare |
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 county in the Republic of Ireland
A town in the county of Cavan, Ireland.
derived from place names in England and Ireland, and from (etyl) "clay" as an occupational name for a worker in clay.
transferred from the surnames (much less common than the female name).
, often spelled Claire in the 20th century.
* : Act I, Scene IV:
* 1999 Margaret York: The Price of Guilt : page 58:
As a noun claim
is claim.As an adjective clare is
.claim
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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 ----clare
English
(wikipedia Clare)Etymology 1
Proper noun
(en proper noun)Etymology 2
Medieval English vernacular form of Clara.Proper noun
(en proper noun)- Yes, truly: I speak not as desiring more,
- But rather wishing a more strict restraint
- Upon the sisterhood, the votarists of Saint Clare .
- "What's your name?"
- "Clare Fairweather," she said. "Awful, isn't it?" and went away, hiding her mirth.
