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English Dictionary: need	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
need n a condition requiring relief; "she satisfied his need for affection"; "God has no need of men to accomplish His work"; "there is a demand for jobs" Synonym(s): need, demand anything that is necessary but lacking; "he had sufficient means to meet his simple needs"; "I tried to supply his wants" Synonym(s): need, want the psychological feature that arouses an organism to action toward a desired goal; the reason for the action; that which gives purpose and direction to behavior; "we did not understand his motivation"; "he acted with the best of motives" Synonym(s): motivation, motive, need a state of extreme poverty or destitution; "their indigence appalled him"; "a general state of need exists among the homeless" Synonym(s): indigence, need, penury, pauperism, pauperization v require as useful, just, or proper; "It takes nerve to do what she did"; "success usually requires hard work"; "This job asks a lot of patience and skill"; "This position demands a lot of personal sacrifice"; "This dinner calls for a spectacular dessert"; "This intervention does not postulate a patient's consent" Synonym(s): necessitate, ask, postulate, need, require, take, involve, call for, demand Antonym(s): eliminate, obviate, rid of have need of; "This piano wants the attention of a competent tuner" Synonym(s): want, need, require have or feel a need for; "always needing friends and money"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Need \Need\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Needed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Needing}.] [See {Need}, n. Cf. AS. n[?]dan to force, Goth. nau[?]jan.] To be in want of; to have cause or occasion for; to lack; to require, as supply or relief. Other creatures all day long Rove idle, unemployed, and less need rest. --Milton. Note: With another verb, need is used like an auxiliary, generally in a negative sentence expressing requirement or obligation, and in this use it undergoes no change of termination in the third person singular of the present tense. [bd]And the lender need not fear he shall be injured.[b8] --Anacharsis (Trans. ).
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Need \Need\, n. [OE. need, neod, nede, AS. ne[a0]d, n[ymac]d; akin to D. nood, G. not, noth, Icel. nau[edh]r, Sw. & Dan. n[94]d, Goth. naups.] 1. A state that requires supply or relief; pressing occasion for something; necessity; urgent want. And the city had no need of the sun. --Rev. xxi. 23. I have no need to beg. --Shak. Be governed by your needs, not by your fancy. --Jer. Taylor. 2. Want of the means of subsistence; poverty; indigence; destitution. --Chaucer. Famine is in thy cheeks; Need and oppression starveth in thine eyes. --Shak. 3. That which is needful; anything necessary to be done; (pl.) necessary things; business. [Obs.] --Chaucer. 4. Situation of need; peril; danger. [Obs.] --Chaucer. Syn: Exigency; emergency; strait; extremity; necessity; distress; destitution; poverty; indigence; want; penury. Usage: {Need}, {Necessity}. Necessity is stronger than need; it places us under positive compulsion. We are frequently under the necessity of going without that of which we stand very greatly in need. It is also with the corresponding adjectives; necessitous circumstances imply the direct pressure of suffering; needy circumstances, the want of aid or relief.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Need \Need\, v. i. To be wanted; to be necessary. --Chaucer. When we have done it, we have done all that is in our power, and all that needs. --Locke.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Need \Need\, adv. Of necessity. See {Needs}. [Obs.] --Chaucer.