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Submit vs Request - What's the difference?

submit | request |

As verbs the difference between submit and request

is that submit is to yield or give way to another while request is to express the need or desire for.

As a noun request is

act of requesting.

submit

English

Verb

(submitt)
  • To yield or give way to another.
  • They will not submit to the destruction of their rights.
  • or To enter or put forward for approval, consideration, marking etc.
  • I submit these plans for your approval.
  • * Macaulay
  • We submit that a wooden spoon of our day would not be justified in calling Galileo and Napier blockheads because they never heard of the differential calculus.
  • (mixed martial arts) To win a fight by submission.
  • * '>citation
  • "[Ronda] Rousey, a former U.S. Olympian in Judo, caps off a perfect year in which she submitted Liz Carmouche in the first-ever UFC female fight and coached opposite [Miesha] Tate in "The Ultimate Fighter" reality series."
  • (obsolete) To let down; to lower.
  • * Dryden
  • Sometimes the hill submits itself a while.
  • (obsolete) To put or place under.
  • * Chapman
  • The bristled throat / Of the submitted sacrifice with ruthless steel he cut.

    Derived terms

    * submittable * submittal * submitter

    request

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Act of (l).
  • * Shakespeare
  • I will marry her, sir, at your request .
  • A formal (l) requesting something.
  • of being sought after.
  • * Sir W. Temple
  • Knowledge and fame were in as great request as wealth among us now.
  • (obsolete) That which is asked for or requested.
  • * Bible, Psalms cvi. 15
  • He gave them their request .

    Synonyms

    * (act of requesting) asking, beseech, prayer, wish * (formal message requesting something) petition, postulation * (state of being sought after) demand

    Derived terms

    * discovery request * request for admission * request for production

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to express the need or desire for
  • to ask somebody to do something
  • Synonyms

    * (to express the need or desire for ): indicate, pray, wish * (to ask somebody to do something ): ask, bespeak, call for

    See also

    * * (wikipedia "request")

    Anagrams

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