request
1. a formal message requesting something that is submitted to an authority (Freq. 10)
• Syn:
petition, postulation
• Derivationally related forms:
petitionary (for: petition), petition (for: petition)
• Hypernyms:
message, content, subject matter, substance
• Hyponyms:
application, solicitation, appeal, collection, ingathering, demand
2. the verbal act of requesting (Freq. 4)
• Syn:
asking
• Hypernyms:
speech act
• Hyponyms:
notification, notice, wish, indirect request, invitation,
entreaty, prayer, appeal, petition, orison, call,
charge, billing, trick or treat, questioning, inquiring, order,
recall, callback
1. express the need or desire for;
ask for (Freq. 11)
- She requested an extra bed in her room
- She called for room service
• Syn:
bespeak, call for, quest
• Hypernyms:
communicate, pass on, pass, pass along, put across
• Hyponyms:
order, ask, encore, petition, demand,
appeal, invoke, supplicate, apply, solicit, beg,
tap, reserve, challenge, excuse, beg off, claim,
invite, call for, ask in, desire, lay claim, arrogate,
ask over, ask round, call, ask out, invite out, take out,
hold, book
• Verb Group:
invite, call for
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s somebody
2. ask (a person) to do something (Freq. 7)
- She asked him to be here at noon
- I requested that she type the entire manuscript
• Hypernyms:
ask
• Hyponyms:
order, tell, enjoin, say, call,
invite, bid, propose, declare oneself, offer, pop the question
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s somebody to INFINITIVE
- Somebody ----s somebody INFINITIVE
- Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
- They request to move
- They request him to write the letter
3. inquire for (information)
- I requested information from the secretary
• Hypernyms:
wonder, inquire, enquire
• Hyponyms:
seek
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s something from somebody
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