vedota — meaning in English

English meaning

• appeal noun A formal request to a higher court to review and change a lower court's decision.
• call verb To contact someone by phone, or to cry out or shout to get attention.
• conjure verb To perform tricks that appear to be magic.
• implore verb To beg someone earnestly to do something.
• invoke verb To call on something, such as a rule, law, or higher power, for support or justification.
• pander verb To act in a way that indulges or appeals to someone's weaknesses, desires, or lower tastes, often for personal gain.
• plead verb To argue a case formally, especially in court.

Senses

vedota is used for these senses in English:

• appeal (intransitive) To call upon a person or an authority to corroborate a statement, to decide a controverted question, or to vindicate one's rights; to entreat, to invoke.
• call (transitive) To state, or invoke a rule, in many games such as bridge, craps, jacks, and so on.
• conjure (transitive, archaic) To make an urgent request to; to appeal to or beseech.
• go down (intransitive) To be received or accepted.
• invoke (transitive) To appeal for validation to a (notably cited) authority.
• plead (ambitransitive, copulative) To present (an argument or a plea), especially in a legal case.
• plead (intransitive) To beg, beseech, or implore, especially emotionally.
• strike a chord (idiomatic) To elicit a significant reaction, especially one which is favorable or sympathetic.

appeal — full definition

1. noun A formal request to a higher court to review and change a lower court's decision.
2. noun A serious or urgent request for help, support, or something desired.
3. noun The quality of being attractive or interesting.
4. verb To formally request that a higher court review a decision.
5. verb To be attractive or interesting to someone.

call — full definition

1. verb To contact someone by phone, or to cry out or shout to get attention.
2. verb To give someone or something a name; to refer to something in a particular way.
3. verb To pay a brief visit, or to stop at a place, especially a ship stopping at a port.
4. verb To predict or officially declare an outcome.
5. noun An act of speaking to someone on the phone.

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