DEMAND  要求

ADDRESS someone so as to COMMAND that that person ACT:do something.
REQUESTCALLCOMMANDORDERDICTATEULTIMATUMSTIPULATIONCALL FORASK FORREQUESTPUSH FORHOLD OUT FORINSIST ONCLAIM
Hypernym
  • ADDRESSSPEAK OR WRITE INTENDING ANOTHER TO HEAR OR READ AND TO REACT to IT. 
    • SPEAKACT so as to USE WORDS FOR SHOWING MEANING.*Speech by speaker X, directed towards audience Y, in order to communicate message Z.
      • ACTMOVE OR NOT MOVE CONFORMING to one's SELF:own DECIDE:decision.
        • MOVECHANGE PLACE OR SITUATION....
See also
  • SEEKTRY to FIND.
    • REQUESTTo ADDRESS someone so as to TRY TO CAUSE him/her TO ACT in a certain way.
      Old Chinese Criteria
      1. The current word for putting forward justified legal demands on someone is zé 責, and the word refers to any demand for the fulfillment of a duty.

      2. Zhēng 徵 refers to a state insisting on its legal rights and thus making demands on the people.

      3. Zhū 誅 refers to a fierce legal demand for something that is construed as one's right.

      4. Qiú 求 is often used to refer not to seeking something, but insistently demanding it. See also SEEK.

      Modern Chinese Criteria
      要求 is the current modern word for a demand.

      渴求 refers to an urgent demand.

      務求 refers to an important demand.

      求 (cl)

      rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／

      • Vocabulaire européen des philosophies. Dictionnaire des intraduisibles ( CASSIN 2004) p. 222

        CLAIM ANSPRUCH

      • Lateinische Synonyme und Etymologien ( DOEDERLEIN 1840) p.

        DEMAND

        petere refers to asking for anything, whether as request or demand.

        poscere refers to demanding something, with decisiveness and with a feeling of right or power.

        orare refers to asking for someting in a submissive way.

        postulare refers to a wish and a will, without any enhancing accessory notion, as a quiet utterance of the will.

        exigere refers to what is put forward as a just claim.

        flagitare is to demand something with importunity, in consequences of a passionate and impatient eagerness.

        DEMAND

        requirere "demand" claims something as a right, assuming that the other party understands and agrees on this right.

        desiderare refers to a demand based on feeling, and in particular a desire for the thing demanded, and it is basically the expression of a wish.

      • Traite elementaire des synonymes grecques ( DUFOUR 1910) p. 51

      • Anthologia sive Florilegium rerum et materiarum selectarum ( LANGIUS 1631) p.

        EXACTIO

      • Handbuch der lateinischen und griechischen Synonymik ( SCHMIDT 1889) p. 12

      • Handbook of Greek Synonymes, from the French of M. Alex. Pillon, Librarian of the Bibliothèque Royale , at Paris, and one of the editors of the new edition of Plaché's Dictionnaire Grec-Français, edited, with notes, by the Rev. Thomas Kerchever Arnold, M.A. Rector of Lyndon, and late fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge ( PILLON 1850) p. no. 44

      Words

      求  qiú OC: ɡu MC: gɨu 34 AttributionsWD
        Syntactic words
      • nabactdemands
      • nabpost-Ndemands on, demands regarding, demands in the sphere ofLZ
      • vt+prep+Nmake demands on NCH
      • vt[oN]make demands
      • vtoNmake demands for
      • vtoNmarriagedemand (wife)
      • vtoV[0]V=passivedemand to be V-edCH
      • vttoN1. prep N2demand to get to know about N2 from N1CH
      • vttoN1.+prep+N2make demands (for something N1) from (someone N2)
      • vttoN1.+prep+N2psychseek N1 from (oneself) 求諸己
      責  zé OC: skreeɡ MC: ʈʂɣɛk 28 AttributionsWD

      The current word for putting forward justified legal demands on someone is zé 責, and the word refers to any demand for the fulfillment of a duty.

        Syntactic words
      • viderivedbe excessively demandingCH
      • vt+prep+Nmake demands on 責於
      • vtoNmake demands concerning (performance of duty)
      • vtoNfigurativeinsist on finding out about; demand to fully understandCH
      • vtoNN=hummake demands (on a person)
      • vtoNpassivebe held responsible for, be exposed to demands
      • vttoN.+V[0]pivotdemand of someone to V
      • vttoN1(. prep N2)figurativeabstract: demand N1 from the contextually determinate N2CH
      • vttoN1.+prep+N2demand N1 from N2 責賂於鄭
      求索  qiú suǒ OC: ɡu saaɡ MC: gɨu sɑk 9 AttributionsWD
        Syntactic words
      • NPabactdemands of all kinds
      • VPt+V[0]demand to V
      • VPtoNdemand (e.g. for marriage)
      徵  zhēng OC: tɯŋ MC: ʈɨŋ 8 AttributionsWD

      Zhēng 徵 refers to a state insisting on its legal rights and thus making demands on the people.

        Syntactic words
      • nabactdemand
      • vtoNdemand (evidence, knowledge etc)???; (of states) demand, require (taxes etc)
      要  yāo OC: qew MC: ʔiɛu 2 AttributionsWD
        Syntactic words
      • vtoNto demand pressinglyLZ
      • vtoNN=humanmake demands on
      誅  zhū OC: to MC: ʈi̯o 2 AttributionsWD

      Zhū 誅 refers to a fierce legal demand for something that is construed as one's right.

        Syntactic words
      • vttoN1.+prep+N2demand (something N1) from (someone N2)　誅屨於徒人費
      往債  wǎng zhài OC: ɢʷaŋʔ skreeɡs MC: ɦi̯ɐŋ ʈʂɣɛ 2 AttributionsWD
        Syntactic words
      • VPt[oN]go somewhere to demand repayment of debt
      刻  kè OC: khɯɯɡ MC: khək 1 AttributionWD
        Syntactic words
      • vtoNmake harsh demands upon
      • vtoNpsychmake hard demands upon (oneself); be harsh on (oneself)
      怒  nù OC: naas MC: nuo̝ 1 AttributionWD
        Syntactic words
      • viactbe fierce in making demands and holding people responsible for what they have promised

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