单词 | require |
释义 | require (once / 33 pages) v Require means to need. You require food, water, and shelter to live, but do you really require that new pair of high-fashion shoes? The verb require comes from Latin root words re, meaning repeatedly, and quaerere meaning to ask. The word lost the sense of asking and came to mean needing, demanding or insisting upon something. The law requires that you attend school until you're sixteen; your parents probably require you to finish high school. If you're a waiter in a fancy restaurant and the food has been served, as if your customers require anything else. WORD FAMILYrequire: required, requirement, requires, requiring, requisition+/requirement: requirements/requisition: derequisition, requisitioned, requisitioning, requisitions USAGE EXAMPLESSome manufacturing companies are required to cut production and heavily polluting vehicles are banned from the roads. Washington Times(Jan 03, 2017) When authorities issue red alerts, some manufacturing companies are required to cut production and heavily polluting vehicles are banned from the roads. Seattle Times(Jan 02, 2017) The soleus muscles are deep postural muscles and so require training of long duration and low intensity. Washington Post(Dec 29, 2016) 1v have need of Syn|Hypo|Hyper need, want cry demand immediate action be have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun) 2v require as useful, just, or proper success usually requires hard work Syn|Ant|Hypo ask, call for, demand, involve, necessitate, need, postulate, take claim, exact, take take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs eliminate, obviate, rid of do away with claim, exact, take take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs governrequire to be in a certain grammatical case, voice, or mood drawrequire a specified depth for floating costrequire to lose, suffer, or sacrifice cry for, cry out forneed badly or desperately compelnecessitate or exact 3v consider obligatory; request and expect We require our secretary to be on time Syn|Hypo|Hyper ask, expect call require the presentation of for redemption before maturation demand request urgently and forcefully 4v make someone do something Syn|Hypo|Hyper command burden, charge, saddle impose a task upon, assign a responsibility to requisitionmake a formal request for official services disallow, forbid, interdict, nix, prohibit, proscribe, vetocommand against overburdenburden with too much work or responsibility bear downexert a force or cause a strain upon deluge, flood out, overwhelmcharge someone with too many tasks adjurecommand solemnly banprohibit especially by legal means or social pressure bar, debar, excludeprevent from entering; keep out enjoinissue an injunction criminalise, criminalize, illegalise, illegalize, outlawdeclare illegal; outlaw enjoin, order, say, tell give instructions to or direct somebody to do something with authority |
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