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request

verb
/ɹɪˈkwɛst/

Etymology

From Middle English request, from Old French requeste (French requête), from Vulgar Latin *requaesita, from Latin requīsīta, feminine of requīsītus (“requested, demanded”), past participle of requīrō (“require, ask”), composed of re- + quaerō (“to seek, look for”), of uncertain origin, but possibly from Proto-Italic *kʷaizeō, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷeh₂- (“to acquire”). Compare to French requérir.

  1. derived from *kʷeh₂-✻
  2. derived from *kʷaizeō✻
  3. derived from requīsīta
  4. derived from *requaesita✻
  5. derived from requeste
  6. inherited from request

Definitions

  1. To ask for (something).

    • The corporal requested reinforcements.
    • I have requested that the furniture be moved back to its original position.
    • Copies of records of Spear's long-distance telephone calls (which had been requested by Norfolk County police from the telephone company)

  2. To ask (somebody) to do something.

    • She called me into her office and requested me to sit down.

  3. Act of requesting (with the adposition at in the presence of possessives, and on in their…

    Act of requesting (with the adposition at in the presence of possessives, and on in their absence).

    • I will marry her, sir, at your request.
    • The promise that arises upon an account stated, is to pay on request.
  4. ›+ 4 more definitions

    1. A formal message requesting something.

    2. Condition of being sought after.

    3. A message sent over a network to a server.

      • The server returned a 404 error to the HTTP request.

    4. That which is asked for or requested.

      • He gave them their request.

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Derived

nonrequested, requestable, requestee, requester, requestingly, requestive, requestor, unrequested, discovery request, merge request, multirequest, pull request, request for admission, request for comments, request for production, request for quotation, requestman, subrequest

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at request. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at request. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at request

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA