request

1. is a type of: content, message, subject matter, substance - what a communication that is about something is about
   subtypes:

   • application - a verbal or written request for assistance or employment or admission to a school
   • appeal, collection, ingathering, solicitation - request for a sum of money
   • demand - an urgent or peremptory request
   same as: petition, postulation
2. is a type of: speech act - the use of language to perform some act
   subtypes:

   • notice, notification - a request for payment
   • indirect request, wish - an expression of some desire or inclination
   • invitation - a request (spoken or written) to participate or be present or take part in something
   • appeal, entreaty, prayer - earnest or urgent request
   • orison, petition, prayer - reverent petition to a deity
   • call - a request
   • billing, charge - request for payment of a debt
   • trick or treat - a request by children on Halloween; they pass from door to door asking for goodies and threatening to play tricks on those who refuse
   • inquiring, questioning - a request for information
   • order - a request for something to be made, supplied, or served
   • callback, recall - a request by the manufacturer of a defective product to return the product (as for replacement or repair)
   same as: asking

1. is a type of: communicate, pass, pass along, pass on, put across - transmit information
   subtypes:

   • order - make a request for something
   • ask - make a request or demand for something to somebody
   • encore - request an encore, from a performer
   • petition - write a petition for something to somebody; request formally and in writing
   • demand - request urgently and forcefully
   • appeal, invoke - request earnestly (something from somebody); ask for aid or protection
   • supplicate - ask for humbly or earnestly, as in prayer
   • apply - ask (for something)
   • beg, solicit, tap - make a solicitation or entreaty for something; request urgently or persistently
   • reserve - obtain or arrange (for oneself) in advance
   • challenge - ask for identification
   • beg off, excuse - ask for permission to be released from an engagement
   • demand - ask to be informed of
   • claim - ask for legally or make a legal claim to, as of debts, for example
   • call for, invite - request the participation or presence of
   • ask in, invite - ask to enter
   • desire - express a desire for
   • beg - ask to obtain free
   • arrogate, claim, lay claim - demand as being one's due or property; assert one's right or title to
   • ask over, ask round, invite - invite someone to one's house
   • call - call a meeting; invite or command to meet
   • ask, ask out, invite out, take out - make a date
   • book, hold, reserve - arrange for and reserve (something for someone else) in advance
   same as: ask for, bespeak, call for, quest
   verb group: call for, invite - request the participation or presence of
2. is a type of: ask - make a request or demand for something to somebody
   subtypes:

   • enjoin, order, say, tell - give instructions to or direct somebody to do something with authority
   • call - order, summon, or request for a specific duty or activity, work, role
   • bid, invite - ask someone in a friendly way to do something
   • declare oneself, offer, pop the question, propose - ask (someone) to marry you
3. is a type of: enquire, inquire, wonder - have a wish or desire to know something
   subtypes: seek - inquire for

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