What's the difference between famish and necessary?

Famish


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To starve, kill, or destroy with hunger.
  • (v. t.) To exhaust the strength or endurance of, by hunger; to distress with hanger.
  • (v. t.) To kill, or to cause to suffer extremity, by deprivation or denial of anything necessary.
  • (v. t.) To force or constrain by famine.
  • (v. i.) To die of hunger; to starve.
  • (v. i.) To suffer extreme hunger or thirst, so as to be exhausted in strength, or to come near to perish.
  • (v. i.) To suffer extremity from deprivation of anything essential or necessary.
  • (a.) Smoky; hot; choleric.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The peculiar features of SBH are discussed by means of optical, cytochemical, electron microscopical investigations which point out the polymorphous aspect of these "famished" macrophages.
  • (2) In a new study of hunger's effects on the mind, neuroscientists pieced together what happens in the brain that makes us buy more food when we are famished.
  • (3) After 30 years I now understand the words that a character in Ben Okri’s The Famished Road says to the white man who complains he hasn’t been able to leave Africa: you can get out of Africa, when you can get Africa out of you.
  • (4) Even in those most crucial final moments, irreverent presenters Mel and Sue sidled around the marquee, minesweeping offcuts like two St Trinian’s gels totally famished after lacrosse.
  • (5) And from there we proceeded with the Prijedor police chief and camp commander Zeljko Mejakic through the gates of Omarska, to behold men in various states of shocking decay emerging from a great hangar, being drilled across a yard and into a canteen, where they wolfed down watery bean stew like famished dogs.
  • (6) Catton takes the youngest winner title from Ben Okri who was 32 when The Famished Road won the Booker prize in 1991.
  • (7) Last week, a famished woman whose benefits were stopped was prosecuted and fined more than £300 for stealing a 75p pack of Mars Bars.

Necessary


Definition:

  • (a.) Such as must be; impossible to be otherwise; not to be avoided; inevitable.
  • (a.) Impossible to be otherwise, or to be dispensed with, without preventing the attainment of a desired result; indispensable; requiste; essential.
  • (a.) Acting from necessity or compulsion; involuntary; -- opposed to free; as, whether man is a necessary or a free agent is a question much discussed.
  • (n.) A thing that is necessary or indispensable to some purpose; something that one can not do without; a requisite; an essential; -- used chiefly in the plural; as, the necessaries of life.
  • (n.) A privy; a water-closet.
  • (n.) Such things, in respect to infants, lunatics, and married women, as are requisite for support suitable to station.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Apparently, the irradiation with visible light of a low intensity creates an additional proton gradient and thus stimulates a new replication and division cycle in the population of cells whose membranes do not have delta pH necessary for the initiation of these processes.
  • (2) The low affinity of several N1-alkylpyrroleethylamines suggests that the benzene portion of the alpha-methyltryptamines is necessary for significant affinity.
  • (3) Intravesical BCG is clearly superior to oral BCG, and controlled studies have demonstrated that percutaneous administration is not necessary.
  • (4) These studies show that metabolic activation is necessary for the expression of the mutagenic activity of aflatoxins B1 and G1 in N. crassa.
  • (5) In practice, however, the necessary dosage is difficult to predict.
  • (6) In order to control noise- and vibration-caused diseases it was necessary not only to improve machines' quality and service conditions but also to pay special attention to the choice of operators and to the quality of monitoring their adaptation process.
  • (7) It is likely that trunk mobility is necessary to maintain integrity of SI joint and that absence of such mobility compromises SI joint structure in many paraplegics.
  • (8) If there is a will to use primary Care centres for effective preventive action in the population as a whole, motivation of the professionals involved and organisational changes will be necessary so as not to perpetuate the law of inverse care.
  • (9) Obamacare price hikes show that now is the time to be bold | Celine Gounder Read more No longer able to keep patients off their plans outright, insurers have resorted to other ways to discriminate and avoid paying for necessary treatments.
  • (10) Duesberg contends that HIV is neither necessary nor sufficient to cause AIDS.
  • (11) It is therefore necessary, to look at typical clinical manifestations, i.e.
  • (12) We have examined the in vitro membrane assembly characteristics of a variety of leader peptidase mutants and found that domains required for insertion in vivo are also necessary for insertion in vitro.
  • (13) Two hours after the administration, the combinations of ethanol plus diazepam and ethanol plus meclophenoxate impaired significantly the number of necessary repetitions.
  • (14) The first experiment gave good results, although only one participant had any previous experience of hinge axis location, and it is debatable whether or not this experience is necessary before satisfactory results can be obtained.
  • (15) For consistent identification of the normal pancreas, preliminary longitudinal scanning at, or near, the mid-line and subsequent oblique scanning in the long axis are necessary prerequisites in delineating the anatomic outline of the pancreas.
  • (16) Survival and healing of "extremely severe" grade intoxication can only be obtained through a surgical intervention within the first hours; a laparotomy will indicate the depth of the lesions, which is not determined by endoscopy, and will consist of Celerier's stripping method and if necessary a gastrectomy, more seldom a cephalic duodeno-pancreatectomy.
  • (17) Socio-economic improvement or behavioural changes appear necessary for the control of trachoma in endemic areas.
  • (18) This stimulation is mediated by one receptor with an apparent affinity of 3.3 X 10(-6) M. The hydroxyl group in the para position on phenylethanolamine was absolutely necessary to obtain an agonist whereas the meta hydroxyl group or the presence of a catechol almost suppressed the activity.
  • (19) Provided that adequate reflection is given and the appropriate moment chosen, it is well tolerated and provides all the necessary information.
  • (20) Total excisional biopsy is necessary to properly assess an adenoma microscopically.