What's the difference between hunger and need?

Hunger


Definition:

  • (n.) An uneasy sensation occasioned normally by the want of food; a craving or desire for food.
  • (n.) Any strong eager desire.
  • (n.) To feel the craving or uneasiness occasioned by want of food; to be oppressed by hunger.
  • (n.) To have an eager desire; to long.
  • (v. t.) To make hungry; to famish.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It was the ease with which minor debt could slide into a tangle of hunger and despair.
  • (2) As shown in Rethinking School Feeding , a joint analysis conducted by the World Bank , World Food Programme and Partnership for Child Development , hunger restricts education.
  • (3) It is right that the food banks feed those who would otherwise go hungry, offering a picture of a different kind of economy, though they can do little to address the causes of hunger.
  • (4) What I didn't know was how much hunger there was in the audience to see themselves on television.
  • (5) The analysis of the causes of hunger current in the 1970's can be summarized somewhat brutally as follows.
  • (6) Experiments in which this method has been applied to the measurement of hunger and thirst in doves are outlined, and the results are discussed in terms of their implications for motivation theory in general.
  • (7) This suggests that brain 5-HT may influence primarily the induction of satiety rather than the suppression of hunger.
  • (8) In the experiments the animals' reactions to various conditions of temperature, air O2 and CO2 content, fatigue and hunger, were tested.
  • (9) And 96% of our grants go to African organisations, universities, scientists and small businesses to achieve a single goal: reduce hunger and poverty on our continent by unleashing the potential of the millions of small, family farmers who are the backbone of African agriculture and African economies.
  • (10) Varied clinical observations of the presence of either hunger or anorexia during intragastric or intravenous alimentation have led to the current experiments.
  • (11) It is concluded that at the first central synapse of the taste system of the primate, neural responsiveness is not influenced by the normal transition from hunger to satiety.
  • (12) An attempt is made to explain this finding, together with their previously-demonstrated enhanced hunger drive, purely in terms of gross anatomical and physiological differences.
  • (13) After the lesion in the VTA the reaction of rats became independent of the level of hunger--the number of their crossings was similar at different levels of hunger.
  • (14) Although high-intensity sweeteners are widely used to decrease the energy density of foods, little is known about how this affects hunger and food intake.
  • (15) As current aid levels stand, the first Millennium Development Goal to halve the number of people who suffer from hunger would "slip through its [DfID's] fingers and further out of reach", says the report, which opens with a message from Boyzone singer Ronan Keating, a UN FAO goodwill ambassador.
  • (16) Like domestic animals, the latter died of hunger probably, any corpse or carcass being considered as plague victims.
  • (17) Money was tight and hunger was a constant companion.
  • (18) 72-hour hunger test did not precipitate any spontaneous hypoglycaemia.
  • (19) Seven obese and seven nonobese male undergraduates were videotaped as they ate four dinner meals, two low and two high in preference, under low and high hunger conditions.
  • (20) French journalists from Paris Match magazine and Le Parisien spoke to Trierweiler, 48, during her two-day visit to India at the weekend for the humanitarian organisation Action Contre La Faim (Action against Hunger).

Need


Definition:

  • (n.) A state that requires supply or relief; pressing occasion for something; necessity; urgent want.
  • (n.) Want of the means of subsistence; poverty; indigence; destitution.
  • (n.) That which is needful; anything necessary to be done; (pl.) necessary things; business.
  • (n.) Situation of need; peril; danger.
  • (n.) To be in want of; to have cause or occasion for; to lack; to require, as supply or relief.
  • (v. i.) To be wanted; to be necessary.
  • (adv.) Of necessity. See Needs.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Technical factors that account for increased difficulty in these patients include: problems with guide catheter impaction and ostial trauma; inability to inflate the balloon with adequate guide catheter support; and need for increased intracoronary manipulation.
  • (2) An effective graft-surveillance protocol needs to be applicable to all patients; practical in terms of time, effort, and cost; reliable; and able to detect, grade, and assess progression of lesions.
  • (3) Richard Bull Woodbridge, Suffolk • Why does Britain need Chinese money to build a new atomic generator ( Letters , 20 October)?
  • (4) It involves creativity, understanding of art form and the ability to improvise in the highly complex environment of a care setting.” David Cameron has boosted dementia awareness but more needs to be done Read more She warns: “To effect a cultural change in dementia care requires a change of thinking … this approach is complex and intricate, and can change cultural attitudes by regarding the arts as central to everyday life of the care home.” Another participant, Mary*, a former teacher who had been bedridden for a year, read plays with the reminiscence arts practitioner.
  • (5) Paradoxically, each tax holiday increases the need for the next, because companies start holding ever greater amounts of their tax offshore in the expectation that the next Republican government will announce a new one.
  • (6) That means deciding what job they’d like to have and outlining the steps they’ll need to take to achieve it.
  • (7) The obvious need for highly effective contraception in women with existing disorders of glucose metabolism has led to a search for oral contraceptive (OC) regimens for such women that are efficient but without unacceptable metabolic side effects.
  • (8) More research and a national policy to provide optimal nutrition for all pregnant women, including the adolescent, are needed.
  • (9) "Britain needs to be in the room when the euro countries meet," he said, "so that it can influence the argument and ensure that what the 17 do will not damage the market or British interests.
  • (10) It is suggested that the results indicate the need for full haematological screening of all patients with recurrent aphthae.
  • (11) As important providers of health care education, nurses need to be fully informed of the research findings relevant to effective interventions designed to motivate health-related behavior change.
  • (12) Elderly women need to follow the same strategies as postmenopausal women with more emphasis on prevention of falls.
  • (13) The problem of treatment oneside malocclusions of adult patients needs to concern of anchorange.
  • (14) Since the start of this week, markets have been more cautious, with bond yields in Spain reaching their highest levels in four months on Tuesday amid concern about the scale of the austerity measures being imposed by the government and fears that the country might need a bailout.
  • (15) Most patients of the bopindolol-group needed 1 mg once daily as compared to those on the nifedipine who required 20 mg b.i.d.
  • (16) But that's just it - they need to be viable in the long term.
  • (17) However, further improvement of culture systems is needed for active replication of HBV in vitro.
  • (18) In documents due to be published by the bank, it will signal a need to shed costs from a business that employs 10,000 people as it scrambles to return to profit.
  • (19) These deficiencies in the data compromise HIV surveillance based on diagnostic testing, and supplementary bias-free data are needed.
  • (20) Parents believed they should try to normalize their child's experiences, that interactions with health care professionals required negotiation and assertiveness, and that they needed some support person(s) outside of the family.