request
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editFrom 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 (“I seek, look for”), of uncertain origin, but possibly from Proto-Italic *kʷaizeō, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷeh₂- (“to acquire”). Compare to French requérir.
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editrequest (third-person singular simple present requests, present participle requesting, simple past and past participle requested)
- (transitive or with a subjunctive clause) To ask for (something).
- The corporal requested reinforcements.
- I have requested that the furniture be moved back to its original position.
- 1979 December 29, Mitzel, “Dale Barbre's Murder & Related Matters”, in Gay Community News, volume 7, number 23, page 6:
- Copies of records of Spear's long-distance telephone calls (which had been requested by Norfolk County police from the telephone company)
- (transitive) To ask (somebody) to do something.
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Noun
editrequest (plural requests)
- Act of requesting (with the adposition at in the presence of possessives, and on in their absence).
- c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
- I will marry her, sir, at your request.
- 1839, The Law Journal for the Year 1832-1949: Comprising Reports:
- The promise that arises upon an account stated, is to pay on request.
- A formal message requesting something.
- Synonyms: petition, postulation
- Condition of being sought after.
- Synonym: demand
- 1690, William Temple, Miscellanea. The Second Part. […], London: […] T. M. for Ri[chard] and Ra[lph] Simpson, […], →OCLC, page 49:
- I do not doubt, but many Great and more Noble Uſes would have been made of ſuch Conqueſts or Diſcoveries, if they had fallen to the ſhare of the Greeks and Romans in thoſe Ages, when Knowledge and Fame were in as great Requeſt, as endleſs Gains and Wealth are among us now; [...]
- (networking) A message sent over a network to a server.
- The server returned a 404 error to the HTTP request.
- (obsolete) That which is asked for or requested.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 106:15:
- He gave them their request.
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edit- request on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- “request”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “request”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
- “request”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
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editEtymology 1
editBorrowed from English request. Doublet of rekest.
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editNoun
editrequest n or m (plural requests, diminutive requestje n)
- (networking) request (message sent over network)
- Synonym: verzoek
- Stuur even een request naar die API. ― Send a request to that API real quick.
Usage notes
edit- Semantically and etymologically differentiated from rekest, which has an archaic spelling request (see Etymology 2 below); rekest (which is borrowed from French) is a general word for any type of request, whereas request (as borrowed from English) has a different pronunciation and is limited to computing contexts.
Etymology 2
editSee rekest.
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editNoun
editrequest n (plural requesten, diminutive requestje n)
Middle English
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editEtymology
editFrom Old French requeste, from Vulgar Latin *requaesita; equivalent to re- + quest.
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editNoun
editrequest (plural requestes)
- A request or petition; a pleading or asking.
- (Late Middle English) What is requested or petitioned for; something that is sought-after.
- (Late Middle English) An adventure or heroic journey.
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editReferences
edit- “request(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-3.
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