单词 | appeal |
释义 | ap·peal ![]() n. 1. An earnest or urgent request, entreaty, or supplication. 2. A resort to a higher authority or greater power, as for sanction, corroboration, or a decision: an appeal to reason; an appeal to her listener's sympathy. 3. Law a. A higher court's review of the correctness of a decision by a lower court. b. A case so reviewed. c. A request for a higher court to review the decision of a lower court. 4. The power of attracting or of arousing interest: a city with special appeal for museumgoers. v. ap·pealed, ap·peal·ing, ap·peals v.intr. 1. To make an earnest or urgent request, as for help. 2. To have recourse, as for corroboration; resort: I appeal to your sense of justice. 3. Law To make or request an appeal. 4. To be attractive or interesting: The idea didn't appeal to me. v.tr. Idiom: Law To request for an appeal of (a case) to a higher court for rehearing. on appeal In the process of being appealed; while being appealed. [Middle English apel, from Old French, from apeler, to appeal, from Latin appellāre, to entreat; see pel-5 in the Appendix of Indo-European roots.] ap·peal′a·bili·ty n. ap·peala·ble adj. ap·pealer n. |
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