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  • 31appeal — ap|peal1 W1S2 [əˈpi:l] n ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(request)¦ 2¦(request for money)¦ 3¦(request to change decision)¦ 4¦(being attractive)¦ ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1.) ¦(REQUEST)¦ an urgent request for something important appeal for ▪ The police have issued a new ap …

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  • 32Appeal — For other uses, see Appeal (disambiguation). An appeal is a petition for review of a case that has been decided by a court of law. The petition is made to a higher court for the purpose of overturning the lower court s decision. The District of… …

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  • 33Appeal to Reason — For the newspaper, see Appeal to Reason (newspaper). Appeal to Reason …

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  • 34appeal — [[t]əpi͟ːl[/t]] ♦♦ appeals, appealing, appealed 1) VERB If you appeal to someone to do something, you make a serious and urgent request to them. [V to/for n to inf] Deng Xiaoping recently appealed for students to return to China... [V to n for n] …

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  • 35appeal — appealability, n. appealable, adj. appealer, n. /euh peel /, n. 1. an earnest request for aid, support, sympathy, mercy, etc.; entreaty; petition; plea. 2. a request or reference to some person or authority for a decision, corroboration, judgment …

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  • 36Appeal (cricket) — In the sport of cricket, an appeal is the act of a player on the fielding team asking an umpire for a decision regarding whether a batsman is out or not. According to the Laws of Cricket, an umpire may not rule a batsman out unless the fielding… …

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  • 37appeal — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. entreaty, plea, begging, petition; resort; attractiveness, attraction. See request, lawsuit. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [A plea] Syn. request, plea, bid, claim, suit, submission, solicitation, petition,… …

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  • 38Appeal to novelty — The appeal to novelty (also called argumentum ad novitatem ) is a fallacy in which someone prematurely claims that an idea or proposal is correct or superior, exclusively because it is new and modern. In a controversy between status quo and new… …

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  • 39appeal — 1. verb 1) police are appealing for information Syn: ask urgently/earnestly, make an urgent/earnest request, call, make a plea, plead 2) Stuart appealed to me to help them Syn: implore, beg, entreat, call on, plead with …

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  • 40appeal — {{11}}appeal (n.) c.1300, in the legal sense, from O.Fr. apel (Mod.Fr. appel), back formation from apeler (see APPEAL (Cf. appeal) (v.)). Meaning call to an authority is from 1620s; that of attractive power attested by 1916. {{12}}appeal (v.)… …

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