A formal message requesting something.
Used in a Sentence
requests
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for requests.
Editorial note
I'd be interested in seeing some waterfall charts comparing this setup with something that keeps the number of total requests small (say 3-5 requests) and evenly balanced.
Examples16
Definitions4
Parts of speech1
Quick take
A formal message requesting something.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of requests gathered in one view.
Act of requesting (with the adposition at in the presence of possessives, and on in their absence).
Condition of being sought after.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for requests.
noun
A formal message requesting something.
noun
Act of requesting (with the adposition at in the presence of possessives, and on in their absence).
noun
Condition of being sought after.
noun
(networking) A message sent over a network to a server.
Example sentences
I'd be interested in seeing some waterfall charts comparing this setup with something that keeps the number of total requests small (say 3-5 requests) and evenly balanced.
Our technology serves billions of requests daily to hundreds of millions of devices around the world.
Our Real-Time Bidding platform serves hundreds of thousands of requests per second from thousands of servers across a worldwide datacenter footprint.
You can fuss about them in court, but ultimately what matters is whether you send the data the other party requests.
We build websites that handle millions of requests per day, presenting high-quality market data to our members and the investing public.
Surely you're throwing away some of the speed benefits of parallel requests by massively-inlining everything?
We launched on HN two years ago with analytics.js, and now tens of thousands of developers send us billions of requests a month.
When you're loading less than 20KB of content, I don't think there are any speed benefits of parallel requests.
In fact it seems like most requests are just individuals looking to protect their privacy, as these accidental release of stats to The Guardian show.
Not even close, 9 requests, 145 kilobytes, total time 300 ms.
I looked at Reddit Check's background page and checked the network requests it was sending.
As Piwik ignores DNT requests by itself, I guess nobody bothered to disable the snippet on server side when DNT is detected.
Quote examples
Clearance requests must be accompanied by a justification, which basically means "needed to work on Project XYZ".
ATM how it goes is that the DNT header is attached to outgoing requests and you "hope" that the 3rd party is discarding them.
Maybe there should be a standard to go the other way: a scheme to let web sites communicate monetary requests to browsers in an "official" protocol.
For instance, when you visit the page for Article X on news site Y, maybe Y's response includes a header that says it requests a donation, with some suggested value like "10 cents".
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use requests in a sentence?
I'd be interested in seeing some waterfall charts comparing this setup with something that keeps the number of total requests small (say 3-5 requests) and evenly balanced.
What does requests mean?
A formal message requesting something.
What part of speech is requests?
requests is commonly used as noun.