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lack; requirement; necessity
Not to be confused with:knead – work dough or clay into a mass; massagekneed – struck or touched with the knee

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N0047901 (nēd)n.1. A condition or situation in which something must be supplied in order for a certain condition to be maintained or a desired state to be achieved: crops in need of water; a child's need for affection.2. Something required or wanted; a requisite: "Those of us who led the charge for these women's issues ... shared a common vision in the needs of women" (Olympia Snowe).3. Necessity; obligation: There is no need for you to go.4. A condition of poverty or misfortune: The family is in dire need.v. need·ed, need·ing, needs v.aux. To be under the necessity of or the obligation to: They need not come. You needn't be concerned.v.tr.1. To have need of; require: The family needs money. We need to get some more paint.2. To have an obligation (to do something): You need to clean up your room.3. To be subject (to an action) by obligation: Bags need to be stowed underneath the seat in front of you.4. To want to be subject to: We don't need another lecture on the subject.v.intr.1. To be in need or want.2. To be necessary.

[Middle English nede, from Old English nēod, nēd, distress, necessity.]Usage Note: Depending on the sense, the verb need behaves sometimes like an auxiliary verb (such as can or may) and sometimes like a main verb (such as want or try). When used as a main verb, need agrees with its subject, takes to before the verb following it, and combines with do in questions, negations, and certain other constructions: He needs to go. Does he need to go so soon? He doesn't need to go. When used as an auxiliary verb, need does not agree with its subject, does not take to before the verb following it, and does not combine with do: He needn't go. Need he go so soon? The auxiliary forms of need are used primarily in present-tense questions, negations, and conditional clauses. Unlike can and may, auxiliary need has no form for the past tense like could and might. · When need is used as the main verb, it can be followed by a present participle, as in The car needs washing, or by to be plus a past participle, as in The car needs to be washed. However, in some areas of the United States, especially western Pennsylvania and eastern Ohio, many speakers omit to be and use just the past participle form, as in The car needs washed. This use of need with past participles is more common in the British Isles, being particularly prevalent in Scotland.

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(niːd) vb1. (tr) to be in want of: to need money. 2. (tr) to require or be required of necessity (to be or do something); be obliged: to need to do more work. 3. (takes an infinitive without to) used as an auxiliary in negative and interrogative sentences to express necessity or obligation, and does not add -s when used with he, she, it, and singular nouns: need he go?. 4. (intr) archaic to be essential or necessary to: there needs no reason for this. n5. the fact or an instance of feeling the lack of something: he has need of a new coat. 6. a requirement: the need for vengeance. 7. necessity or obligation resulting from some situation: no need to be frightened. 8. distress or extremity: a friend in need. 9. extreme poverty or destitution; penury[Old English nēad, nied; related to Old Frisian nēd, Old Saxon nōd, Old High German nōt]

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auxiliary v., pres. sing. 3rd pers. need. n. 1. a requirement, necessary duty, or obligation: There is no need to go there. 2. a lack of something wanted or deemed necessary: the needs of the poor. 3. urgent want, as of something requisite: They have need of your charity. 4. necessity arising from existing circumstances: There is need for caution now. 5. a situation or time of difficulty: to help a friend in need. 6. a condition marked by the lack of something requisite: the need for leadership. 7. destitution; extreme poverty: The family's need is acute. v.t. 8. to have need of; require: to need money. v.i. 9. to be in need or want. 10. Archaic. to be necessary. auxiliary v. 11. (used to express obligation or necessity, esp. in interrogative or negative statements): Need I say more? Idioms: if need be, should the necessity arise. [before 900; (n.) Middle English nede, Old English nēd, c. Old Frisian nēd, Old High German nōt (German Not), Old Norse nauth, Gothic nauths; (v.) Middle English neden, Old English nēodian] need′er, n. syn: See lack.

need

Need has the negative forms need not and do not need. The contracted forms needn't and don't need are also used. However, you cannot use all these forms for all meanings of need. This is explained below.

1. used as a transitive verb

If you need something, it is necessary for you to have it.

These animals need food throughout the winter.He desperately needed money.

For this meaning of need, the negative form is do not need.

You do not need special tools for this job.I don't need any help, thank you.I didn't need any further encouragement.

Be Careful!
Don't use a progressive form of 'need'. Don't say, for example, 'We are needing some milk'. Say 'We need some milk'.

2. used as an intransitive verb or modal

If you need to do something, it is necessary for you to do it.

You'll need to work hard to pass this exam.For an answer to these problems we need to look elsewhere.

You must use to in sentences like these. Don't say, for example, 'You'll need work hard to pass this exam'.

3. questions and negatives

In negative statements you usually use do not need to. You say, for example, 'He doesn't need to go'. You can also use need not as the negative form. For example, you can say 'He needn't go'. However, this is less common and more formal. Don't say 'He doesn't need go' or 'He needn't to go'.

You don't need to shout.You needn't talk about it unless you want to.

In questions, you almost always use do and need to. You usually only use need on its own in a few set phrases, such as 'Need I say more?' and 'Need I remind you?'

Do you need to go?Need I remind you that you owe the company money?4. 'must not'

If you tell someone that they don't need to or need not do something, you are saying that it is not necessary for them to do it. If you want to say that it is necessary for someone not to do something, don't use 'need'. Instead you use must not or mustn't.

You must not accept it.We mustn't forget the tickets.See must5. talking about the past

If you want to say that it was not necessary for someone to do something at a time in the past, you say that they didn't need to do it or they didn't have to do it. Don't say that they 'needn't' do it.

I didn't need to say anything at all.Fortunately, she didn't have to choose.

However, in a reporting structure you can use needn't.

They knew they needn't worry about me.

If someone has done something and you want to say that it was not necessary, you can say that they needn't have done it.

I was wondering whether you were eating properly, but I needn't have worried, need I?6. 'need' with -ing forms

You can use need with an -ing form to say that something should have something done to it. For example, you can say 'The cooker needs cleaning', rather than 'The cooker needs to be cleaned'.

The plan needs improving.We made a list of things that needed doing.

need

Past participle: needed
Gerund: needing

Imperative
need
need

Present
I need
you need
he/she/it needs
we need
you need
they need

Preterite
I needed
you needed
he/she/it needed
we needed
you needed
they needed

Present Continuous
I am needing
you are needing
he/she/it is needing
we are needing
you are needing
they are needing

Present Perfect
I have needed
you have needed
he/she/it has needed
we have needed
you have needed
they have needed

Past Continuous
I was needing
you were needing
he/she/it was needing
we were needing
you were needing
they were needing

Past Perfect
I had needed
you had needed
he/she/it had needed
we had needed
you had needed
they had needed

Future
I will need
you will need
he/she/it will need
we will need
you will need
they will need

Future Perfect
I will have needed
you will have needed
he/she/it will have needed
we will have needed
you will have needed
they will have needed

Future Continuous
I will be needing
you will be needing
he/she/it will be needing
we will be needing
you will be needing
they will be needing

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been needing
you have been needing
he/she/it has been needing
we have been needing
you have been needing
they have been needing

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been needing
you will have been needing
he/she/it will have been needing
we will have been needing
you will have been needing
they will have been needing

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been needing
you had been needing
he/she/it had been needing
we had been needing
you had been needing
they had been needing

Conditional
I would need
you would need
he/she/it would need
we would need
you would need
they would need

Past Conditional
I would have needed
you would have needed
he/she/it would have needed
we would have needed
you would have needed
they would have needed

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	need - 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"demandcondition, status - a state at a particular time; "a condition (or state) of disrepair"; "the current status of the arms negotiations"deficiency, lack, want - the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable; "there is a serious lack of insight into the problem"; "water is the critical deficiency in desert regions"; "for want of a nail the shoe was lost"necessity - the condition of being essential or indispensable
	2.	need - anything that is necessary but lacking; "he had sufficient means to meet his simple needs"; "I tried to supply his wants"wantessential, necessary, requisite, necessity, requirement - anything indispensable; "food and shelter are necessities of life"; "the essentials of the good life"; "allow farmers to buy their requirements under favorable conditions"; "a place where the requisites of water fuel and fodder can be obtained"
	3.	need - 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"motivation, motivepsychological feature - a feature of the mental life of a living organismlife - a motive for living; "pottery was his life"rational motive - a motive that can be defended by reasoning or logical argumentirrational motive - a motivation that is inconsistent with reason or logicimpulse, urge - an instinctive motive; "profound religious impulses"ethical motive, ethics, morals, morality - motivation based on ideas of right and wrongmental energy, psychic energy - an actuating force or factor
	4.	need - a state of extreme poverty or destitution; "their indigence appalled him"; "a general state of need exists among the homeless"indigence, pauperism, pauperization, penuryimpoverishment, poorness, poverty - the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessionsmendicancy, mendicity, beggary - the state of being a beggar or mendicant; "they were reduced to mendicancy"
Verb	1.	need - 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"necessitate, require, call for, demand, postulate, involve, ask, takeexact, claim, take - take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs; "the accident claimed three lives"; "The hard work took its toll on her"govern - require to be in a certain grammatical case, voice, or mood; "most transitive verbs govern the accusative case in German"draw - require a specified depth for floating; "This boat draws 70 inches"cost - require to lose, suffer, or sacrifice; "This mistake cost him his job"cry for, cry out for - need badly or desperately; "This question cries out for an answer"compel - necessitate or exact; "the water shortage compels conservation"
	2.	need - have need of; "This piano wants the attention of a competent tuner"want, requirecry - demand immediate action; "This situation is crying for attention"be - have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun); "John is rich"; "This is not a good answer"
	3.	need - have or feel a need for; "always needing friends and money"

need

verb1. want, miss, require, lack, have to have, demand He desperately needed money.2. require, want, demand, call for, entail, necessitate, have occasion to or for The building needs quite a few repairs.3. have to, be obliged to You needn't bother, I'll do it myself.noun1. requirement, demand, essential, necessity, requisite, desideratum the special nutritional needs of children2. longing, wish, desire, hunger, want The need for revenge kept eating at me.3. necessity, call, demand, requirement, obligation There's no need to call the police.4. emergency, want, necessity, urgency, exigency In her moment of need, her mother was nowhere to be seen.5. poverty, deprivation, destitution, neediness, distress, extremity, privation, penury, indigence, impecuniousness the state of need in Third World countriesin need poor, deprived, disadvantaged, impoverished, needy, destitute, poverty-stricken Food supplies are being sent to people in need.Quotations
"From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs" [Karl Marx Critique of the Gotha Programme]

need

noun1. A condition in which something necessary or desirable is required or wanted:exigence, exigency, necessity.2. Something indispensable:condition, essential, must, necessity, precondition, prerequisite, requirement, requisite, sine qua non.3. Something asked for or needed:demand, exigence, exigency (often used in plural), want.4. An act or course of action that is demanded of one, as by position, custom, law, or religion:burden, charge, commitment, duty, imperative, must, obligation, responsibility.5. The condition of being extremely poor:beggary, destitution, impecuniosity, impecuniousness, impoverishment, indigence, neediness, pennilessness, penuriousness, penury, poverty, privation, want.verb1. To be required or compelled to do:must.Idioms: have got to, have to, must needs.2. To be without what is needed, required, or essential:lack, require, want.

Translations

需要困难必要必需贫穷

need

(niːd) – negative short form needn't (ˈniːdnt) – verb1. to require. This page needs to be checked again; This page needs checking again; Do you need any help?需要2. to be obliged. You need to work hard if you want to succeed; They don't need to come until six o'clock; She needn't have given me such an expensive present.必需 noun1. something essential, that one must have. Food is one of our basic needs.需要2. poverty or other difficulty. Many people are in great need. 贫穷，困难 3. a reason. There is no need for panic.必要ˈneedless adjective, adverb unnecessary. You are doing a lot of needless work; Needless to say, he couldn't do it.不必要的ˈneedlessly adverb 不必要地，无用地 ˈneedy adjective poor. You must help needy people.贫穷的a need for a lack of; a requirement for. There is an urgent need for teachers in this city.缺少...in need of requiring; having a lack of. We're in need of more money; You're badly in need of a haircut.需要...

need

→ 需求zhCN, 需要zhCN

We need a second key → 我们还需要一把钥匙
We need more dishes (US)
We need more crockery (UK) → 我们还需要几件炊具
We need more sheets → 我们还需要几张床单
We need more blankets → 我们还需要几个毯子

need

[nēd] something that is required or necessary. Basic human needs are those things that are required for complete physical and mental well-being. Needs vary greatly in the degree to which they are necessary for survival. For this reason, they are often classified into a hierarchy according to their relative urgency. Those on lower levels must be met before attention can be paid to needs on higher levels. The most widely used classification is called Maslow's hierarchy of needs, devised by Abraham H. Maslow, shown in the accompanying figure.

Maslow's hierarchy of needs.
Physiologic Needs. These are the needs that are essential for the maintenance of biological homeostasis and the survival of the individual and the species. They include needs for oxygen, water, food, elimination of wastes, temperature regulation, avoidance of pain, rest and sleep, exercise and sex.
Needs for Safety and Security. These include needs for protection from physical harm, for order, consistency, and familiarity in one's surroundings, and for some degree of control over matters concerning oneself.
Needs for Love and Belonging. These include needs for giving and receiving love and affection and for sexual intimacy, for friendship and companionship, and to identify with a group.
Needs for Esteem and Self-Esteem. These are the needs that are necessary for a person to have a basic sense of self-respect and self-acceptance and to be self-sufficient. Self-esteem requires an understanding of oneself and one's limitations and the ability to face and cope with stress and painful realities. Persons in whom these needs have been met are relatively free of feelings of inferiority or inadequacy. This level also includes needs for approval and recognition from others.
Need for Self-Actualization. This is the need to make full use of one's talents, capabilities, and potential. Self-actualizing persons tend to be dedicated, realistic, autonomous, creative, and open. They are not in conflict with themselves and are motivated by their own values and goals.

need

The perceived or actual requirement for an activity, function or thing.

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Vox populi The requirement for an activity, function or thing. See Basic need, Dependency need, Self-actualization need, Urgent need.

need

(nēd) 1. Something required, wanted, or essential.2. A duty or obligation. 3. Any disease or condition for which a patient seeks a remedy.4. A motivation. 5. Extreme want or poverty.

Patient discussion about need

Q. I need a Lyme LIterate Doctor in MA Moving to MA - son has chronic LymeA. Hi! Where are you moving to? I'm here in Boston with early Lyme that I hope is not going chronic (the treatment I've taken so far is only suppressing it, and it comes back if I stop antibiotics).
Apparently there is a Dr. Sam Donta who works in Falmouth and Boston: 508-539-6666. But he is pretty busy.

Q. will i need daipers becuse of my bladderA. Not diapers, Even if one has lost control over his bladder, diapers are not used but rather other things like penrose (in case of men) or catheter.
However, bladder stones can usually be treated and don’t necessitate these measures, as you can read here: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/001275.htm)

Q. I need some information….. I smell some problem with my son …..Please guide …….he is very hyperactive and has mood instability and becomes impulsive…..my friend doubts that he may be the case of ADHD……I need some information…..A. It is very difficult to say whether your son is ADHD or not. Yes the symptoms have some link to ADHD but these symptoms are also related to bipolar. Bipolar relates primarily to mood swings which are not a symptom in ADHD. So take him to doctor and go for the diagnosis…..

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noun a condition in which something necessary or desirable is required or wanted

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noun something indispensable

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noun something asked for or needed

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noun an act or course of action that is demanded of one, as by position, custom, law, or religion

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noun the condition of being extremely poor

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verb to be required or compelled to do

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verb to be without what is needed, required, or essential

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noun the psychological feature that arouses an organism to action toward a desired goal

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