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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 claim /ˈklem/

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 2. To proclaim. [Obs.]
 3. To call or name. [Obs.]
 4. To assert; to maintain. [Colloq.]

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

    We must know how the first ruler, from whom any one claims, came by his authority.   --Locke.

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Claim, n.
 2. A right to claim or demand something; a title to any debt, privilege, or other thing in possession of another; also, a title to anything which another should give or concede to, or confer on, the claimant. “A bar to all claims upon land.”
 3. The thing claimed or demanded; that (as land) to which any one intends to establish a right; ; as, a settler's claim; a miner's claim. [U.S. & Australia]
 4. A loud call. [Obs.]
 To lay claim to, to demand as a right. “Doth he lay claim to thine inheritance?”

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

      n 1: an assertion of a right (as to money or property); "his
           claim asked for damages"
      2: an assertion that something is true or factual; "his claim
         that he was innocent"; "evidence contradicted the
         government's claims"
      3: demand for something as rightful or due; "they struck in
         support of their claim for a shorter work day"
      4: an informal right to something; "his claim on her
      5: an established or recognized right; "a strong legal claim to
         the property"; "he had no documents confirming his title
      v 1: assert or affirm strongly; state to be true or existing; "He
           claimed that he killed the burglar" [ant: disclaim]
      2: demand as being one's due or property; assert one's right or
         title to; "He claimed his suitcases at the airline
         counter"; "Mr. Smith claims special tax exemptions because
         [ant: forfeit]
      3: ask for legally or make a legal claim to, as of debts, for
         example; "They claimed on the maximum allowable amount"
      4: lay claim to; as of an idea; "She took credit for the whole
         idea" [syn: take] [ant: disclaim]
      5: take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of
         work took its toll on her" [syn: take, exact]