claim vs demand

claim

verb
  • To be entitled to anything; to deduce a right or title; to have a claim. 

  • To cause the loss of, usually by violent means. 

  • To demand ownership of. 

  • To demand ownership or right to use for land. 

  • To state a new fact, typically without providing evidence to prove it is true. 

  • To demand compensation or damages through the courts. 

noun
  • The right or ground of demanding. 

  • The thing claimed. 

  • A demand of ownership for previously unowned land. 

  • A demand of ownership made for something. 

  • A new statement of something one believes to be the truth, usually when the statement has yet to be verified or without valid evidence provided. 

  • A legal demand for compensation or damages. 

demand

verb
  • To claim a right to something. 

  • To require of someone. 

  • To ask forcefully for information. 

  • To request forcefully. 

  • To issue a summons to court. 

noun
  • An urgent request. 

  • The desire to purchase goods and services. 

  • An order. 

  • The amount of a good or service that consumers are willing to buy at a particular price. 

  • A forceful claim for something. 

  • A requirement. 

  • More precisely peak demand or peak load, a measure of the maximum power load of a utility's customer over a short period of time; the power load integrated over a specified time interval. 

How often have the words claim and demand occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )