(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.
Want
Definition:
(v. i.) The state of not having; the condition of being without anything; absence or scarcity of what is needed or desired; deficiency; lack; as, a want of power or knowledge for any purpose; want of food and clothing.
(v. i.) Specifically, absence or lack of necessaries; destitution; poverty; penury; indigence; need.
(v. i.) That which is needed or desired; a thing of which the loss is felt; what is not possessed, and is necessary for use or pleasure.
(v. i.) A depression in coal strata, hollowed out before the subsequent deposition took place.
(v. t.) To be without; to be destitute of, or deficient in; not to have; to lack; as, to want knowledge; to want judgment; to want learning; to want food and clothing.
(v. t.) To have occasion for, as useful, proper, or requisite; to require; to need; as, in winter we want a fire; in summer we want cooling breezes.
(v. t.) To feel need of; to wish or long for; to desire; to crave.
(v. i.) To be absent; to be deficient or lacking; to fail; not to be sufficient; to fall or come short; to lack; -- often used impersonally with of; as, it wants ten minutes of four.
(v. i.) To be in a state of destitution; to be needy; to lack.
Example Sentences:
(1) "Zayani reportedly cited the political sensitivity of naturalising Sunni expatriates and wanted to avoid provoking the opposition," the embassy said.
(2) I want to get some good insight before I make my decision,” said Hiddink.
(3) I want to be clear; the American forces that have been deployed to Iraq do not and will not have a combat mission,” said Obama in a speech to troops at US Central Command headquarters in Florida.
(4) Schneiderlin, valued at an improbable £27m, and the currently injured Jay Rodriguez are wanted by their former manager Mauricio Pochettino at Spurs, but the chairman Ralph Krueger has apparently called a halt to any more outgoings, saying: “They are part of the core that we have decided to keep at Southampton.” He added: “Jay Rodriguez and Morgan Schneiderlin are not for sale and they will be a part of our club as we enter the new season.” The new manager Ronald Koeman has begun rebuilding by bringing in Dusan Tadic and Graziano Pellè from the Dutch league and Krueger said: “We will have players coming in, we will make transfers to strengthen the squad.
(5) As players, we want what's right, and we feel like no one in his family should be able to own the team.” The NBA has also said that Shelly Sterling should not remain as owner.
(6) Joe, meanwhile, defends her right to say "negro" whenever she wants.
(7) We want to be sure that the country that’s providing all the infrastructure and support to the business is the one that reaps the reward by being able to collect the tax,” he said.
(8) We are pursuing legal action because there are still so many unanswered questions about the viability of Shenhua’s proposed koala plan and it seems at this point the plan does not guarantee the survival of the estimated 262 koalas currently living where Shenhua wants to put its mine,” said Ranclaud.
(9) Ryzhkov added: "I believe they want to keep him in prison for another three or four years at least, so he is not released until well after the next presidential elections in 2012."
(10) "They wanted to pass it almost like a secret negotiation," she said.
(11) We’ve spoken to them on the phone and they’ve all said they just want to come home.” A total of 93 pupils from Saint-Joseph were on the trip.
(12) But if you want to sustain a long-term relationship, it's important to try to develop other erotic interests and skills, because most partners will expect and demand that.
(13) We know that several hundred thousand investors are likely to want to access their pension pots in the first weeks and months after the start of the new tax year.
(14) Does anybody honestly believe the vast majority of migrants don’t want that too?
(15) Cameron had a legitimate argument, but the marines didn't want to hear it.
(16) The choice is partly technical – what kind of trading arrangement do we want with the EU?
(17) The move comes as a poll found that 74% of people want doctors to be allowed to help terminally ill people end their lives.
(18) Antoine Comte, a lawyer for the Schloss heirs, said all the family wanted was the return of the painting.
(19) "I don't want to go to Zurich, to some anonymous facility; I would want to do it in my own bed.
(20) "Law is all I've ever wanted to do, but it's so competitive.