claim vs negative

claim

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

  • 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 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. 

negative

verb
  • To disprove. 

  • To contradict. 

  • To make ineffective; to neutralize, to negate. 

  • To refuse; to veto. 

noun
  • Refusal or withholding of assents; prohibition, veto 

  • A repetition performed with a weight in which the muscle begins at maximum contraction and is slowly extended; a movement performed using only the eccentric phase of muscle movement. 

  • The negative plate of a voltaic or electrolytic cell. 

  • A right of veto. 

  • An unfavorable point or characteristic. 

  • A word that indicates negation. 

  • A negative quantity. 

  • An image in which dark areas represent light ones, and the converse. 

intj
  • No; nay. 

adj
  • Often preceded by emotion, energy, feeling, or thought: to be avoided, bad, difficult, disagreeable, painful, potentially damaging, unpleasant, unwanted. 

  • Characterized by the presence of features which do not support a hypothesis. 

  • Less than zero degrees Celsius or Fahrenheit. 

  • Damaging; undesirable; unfavourable. 

  • Of or relating to a photographic image in which the colours of the original, and the relations of left and right, are reversed. 

  • Of electrical charge of an electron and related particles 

  • Denying a proposition. 

  • Not positive nor neutral. 

  • HIV negative. 

  • COVID-19 negative. 

  • Pessimistic; not tending to see the bright side of things. 

  • Of a number: less than zero 

  • Metalloidal, nonmetallic; contrasted with positive or basic. 

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