demand vs dun

demand

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. 

verb
  • To require of someone. 

  • To claim a right to something. 

  • To ask forcefully for information. 

  • To request forcefully. 

  • To issue a summons to court. 

dun

noun
  • An urgent request or demand of payment. 

  • A collector of debts, especially one who is insistent and demanding. 

  • A fly made to resemble the mayfly subimago. 

  • A newly hatched, immature mayfly; a mayfly subimago. 

  • An ancient or medieval fortification; especially a hill-fort in Scotland or Ireland. 

  • A mound or small hill. 

  • A brownish grey colour. 

  • A structure in the Orkney or Shetland islands or in Scotland consisting of a roundhouse surrounded by a circular wall; a broch. 

adj
  • Of a brownish grey colour. 

verb
  • To harass by continually repeating e.g. a request. 

  • To ask or beset a debtor for payment. 

intj
  • Imitating a deep bass note, such as that found in suspenseful music. 

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