request

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Submitting a patch or a pull request only to have it sit un-noticed for months sucks.

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Quick take

a formal message requesting something that is submitted to an authority

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of request gathered in one view.

noun

a formal message requesting something that is submitted to an authority

noun

the verbal act of requesting

verb

express the need or desire for; ask for; "She requested an extra bed in her room"; "She called for room service"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for request.

noun

a formal message requesting something that is submitted to an authority

noun

the verbal act of requesting

verb

express the need or desire for; ask for; "She requested an extra bed in her room"; "She called for room service"

verb

ask (a person) to do something; "She asked him to be here at noon"; "I requested that she type the entire manuscript"

verb

inquire for (information); "I requested information from the secretary"

Example sentences

Submitting a patch or a pull request only to have it sit un-noticed for months sucks.

Not being able to request features for free doesn't make it against the "spirit of open source".

3rd paragraph: each request goes through legal channels.

You can still get the full git diff out of a pull request by appending .diff to the pull request URL on github.

Some small percentage of resume readers are going to request an interview.

I wish I could request anonymity as easily as you can.

This request illustrates that slippery slope in a way that makes even the NSA nervous.

This is a big request:Improve "design in the browser" capabilities.

So now every single request to your site has to do a substring match against every single term in this list.

And I noticed that all the doctors sold out within days too - and that the last few that had some stock could request extortion prices for their stock.

The demand was the same: hand the Snowden material back or destroy it. I explained that we could not research and report on this subject if we complied with this request.

I had one project where the damn process used so much ram per request they had to go buy an Azul box just to make it run even at 2 req/sec.

Verizon charges us for delivering the content we request.

And when Vivint had done sufficient work to clean up the spammy links, we granted their reconsideration request.

> E-mail marketers will no longer be able to get any information from images—they will see a single request from Google, which will then be used to send the image out to all Gmail users.

We do not provide any government agency with direct access to our servers, and any government agency requesting customer data must get a court order.

This means that the entire 'bandwidth exceeded' message will actually be hidden as soon as this request completes, which may be in <500ms, giving the user absolutely no time to see or acknowledge it.