Earnest or urgent request:
— An appeal for help.
— An appeal to the public to keep calm.

synonyms: entreaty, prayer.

Roget 969: lawsuit, suit, action, cause; litigation; suit in law; dispute etc. 713.    citation, arraignment, prosecution, impeachment; accusation etc. 938; presentment, true bill, indictment.    apprehension, arrest; committal; imprisonment etc. (restraint) 751.    writ, summons, subpoena, latitat^†, nisi prius [Lat.]; venire, venire facias pleadings [Lat.]; declaration, bill, claim; proces verbal [Fr.]; bill of right, information, corpus delicti; affidavit, state of facts; answer, reply, replication, plea, demurrer, rebutter, rejoinder; surrebutter^†, surrejoinder^†.    suitor, party to a suit; plaintiff, defendant, litigant etc. 938.    hearing, trial; verdict etc. (judgment) 480; appeal, appeal motion; writ of error; certiorari [Lat.].    case; decision, precedent; decided case, reports (legal reference works, see reference books).. ... show more

Roget 765: request, requisition; claim etc. (demand) 741; petition, suit, prayer; begging letter, round robin.    motion, overture, application, canvass, address, appeal, apostrophe; imprecation; rogation; proposal, proposition.    orison etc. (worship) 990; incantation etc. (spell) 993.    mendicancy; asking, begging etc. v.; postulation, solicitation, invitation, entreaty, importunity, supplication, instance, impetration^†, imploration^†, obsecration^†, obtestation^†, invocation, interpellation.    ... show more

Roget 586: allocution, alloquy^†, address; speech etc. 582; apostrophe, interpellation, appeal, invocation, salutation; word in the ear.    [Feigned dialogue] dialogism^†.    platform etc. 542; plank; audience etc. (interview) 588.    ... show more

Dutch: smeekgebed, smeekbede, oproep
Polish: apel, odezwa, wezwanie

Attractiveness that interests or pleases or stimulates:
— His smile was part of his appeal to her.

synonyms: appealingness, charm.

Dutch: aanminnigheid, aanvalligheid, bekoorlijkheid, bekoring, beminnelijkheid, charme, lieftalligheid
Polish: urok, magia, czar, magiczność

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.

Dutch: beroep
Polish: odwołanie

Request for a sum of money:
— An appeal to raise money for starving children.

synonyms: collection, ingathering, solicitation.

Dutch: inzameling
Polish: apel

Take a court case to a higher court for review.

Request earnestly (something from somebody); ask for aid or protection:
— Appeal to somebody for help.

synonym: invoke.

Dutch: appelleren

Be attractive to:
— The idea of a vacation appeals to me.

synonym: attract.

Dutch: appeleren, aanspreken, aanstaan, behagen, bevallen, liggen, lijken, zinnen

Challenge (a decision).

Dutch: appelleren, beroepen

Cite as an authority; resort to:
— I appealed to the law of 1900.

synonym: invoke.

Dutch: inroepen, aanroepen, beroepen