What does appeal mean?

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[n] earnest or urgent request(an entreaty to stop the fighting an appeal for help an appeal to the public to keep calm)[v] take a court case to a higher court for review(He was found guilty but appealed immediately)[n] attractiveness that interests or pleases or stimulates(his smile was pa

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appeal - The Free Dictionary

[n] earnest or urgent request
(an entreaty to stop the fighting an appeal for help an appeal to the public to keep calm)

[v] take a court case to a higher court for review
(He was found guilty but appealed immediately)

[n] attractiveness that interests or pleases or stimulates
(his smile was part of his appeal to her)

[v] request earnestly (something from somebody); ask for aid or protection
(appeal to somebody for help Invoke God in times of trouble)

[n] (law) a legal proceeding in which the appellant resorts to a higher court for the purpose of obtaining a review of a lower court decision and a reversal of the lower court's judgment or the granting of a new trial
(their appeal was denied in the superior court)

[v] be attractive to
(The idea of a vacation appeals to me The beautiful garden attracted many people)

[n] request for a sum of money
(an appeal to raise money for starving children)

[v] challenge (a decision)
(She appealed the verdict)

[v] cite as an authority; resort to
(He invoked the law that would save him I appealed to the law of 1900 She invoked an ancient law)

Other vocabulary

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The first recorded dictionaries date back to Sumerian times around 2300 BCE, in the form of bilingual dictionaries, and the oldest surviving monolingual dictionaries are Chinese dictionaries c. 3rd century BCE. The first purely English alphabetical dictionary was A Table Alphabeticall, written in 1604, and monolingual dictionaries in other languages also began appearing in Europe at around this time. The systematic study of dictionaries as objects of scientific interest arose as a 20th-century enterprise, called lexicography, and largely initiated by Ladislav Zgusta. The birth of the new discipline was not without controversy, with the practical dictionary-makers being sometimes accused by others of having an "astonishing" lack of method and critical-self reflection.