require : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: require	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for require
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
require 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 consider obligatory; request and expect; "We require our secretary to be on time"; "Aren't we asking too much of these children?"; "I expect my students to arrive in time for their lessons" Synonym(s): ask, require, expect make someone do something Synonym(s): command, require have need of; "This piano wants the attention of a competent tuner" Synonym(s): want, need, require
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Require \Require"\ (r?-kw?r"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Required} (-kw?rd"); p. pr. & vb. n. {Requiring}.] [OE. requeren, requiren, OF. requerre, F. requ[?]rir; L. pref. re- re- + quaerere to ask; cf. L. requirere. See {Query}, and cf. {Request}, {Requisite}.] 1. To demand; to insist upon having; to claim as by right and authority; to exact; as, to require* the surrender of property. Shall I say to C[91]sar What you require of him? --Shak. By nature did what was by law required. --Dryden. 2. To demand or exact as indispensable; to need. just gave what life required, and gave no more. --Goldsmith. The two last [biographies] require to be particularly noticed. --J. A. Symonds. 3. To ask as a favor; to request. I was ashamed to require of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy in the way. --Ezra viii. 22. Syn: To claim; exact; enjoin; prescribe; direct; order; demand; need.