(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.
Wont
Definition:
(a.) Using or doing customarily; accustomed; habituated; used.
(n.) Custom; habit; use; usage.
(imp.) of Wont
(p. p.) of Wont
(v. i.) To be accustomed or habituated; to be used.
(v. t.) To accustom; -- used reflexively.
Example Sentences:
(1) The voters don’t do gratitude, self-pitying politicians are wont to moan.
(2) Atlético are sitting deep, and Real have no space to release Ronaldo or Bale into, as is their wont.
(3) Tennyson was wont to stride out over the downland, with its dramatic sea views towards the Needles.
(4) Meanwhile, as is apparently his wont, Slutski has allowed a few minutes of a half to go by before making a substitution.
(5) If we do away with the notion that the personal is political, as feminism-lite is wont to do, who gets left holding the baby?
(6) Yet well-meaning westerners – health experts, development workers, sustainability folk and so on – are wont to wince at the sight.
(7) Or maybe John of Gaunt had it right: “That England, that was wont to conquer others, Hath made a shameful conquest of itself.” Main illustration by Christophe Gowans • Follow the Long Read on Twitter at @gdnlongread , or sign up to the long read weekly email here This article was amended on 21 June 2016.
(8) you just contact us Assange: 2010 03 17 22:57:52 but don't disappear without saying why for an extended period or I'll get worried;) Manning: 2010 03 17 22:58:03 i wont Assange: 2010 03 17 22:58:16 you'll know if something's wrong Manning: 2010 03 17 22:58:39 ok Assange: 2010 03 17 22:58 57 you can just tell me "all the ships came in" The bank documents Early on in the chat logs, Assange mentions getting hold of data for a major American bank.
(9) Unlike income, which has been vigorously taxed since the mid-19th century and therefore recorded, personal wealth was, after 1979, the subject of a half-hearted cat-and-mouse game in which the cat and the mouse were wont to share yachting trips to the Aegean on a regular basis.
(10) Many are ill-trained and poorly disciplined, wont to shoot randomly into the sky in frustration at bombing raids, but their courage and dedication is not in doubt.
(11) He wont leave a venue – ignoring my frantic watch pointing and finger across the throat signals — before everyone has had their book signed and their photo taken with him.
(12) Fronting a forum like this and just repeating a tired mantra wont fool anyone – it actually just damages our international credibility.” But she welcomed the federal government’s “commitment to ending discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people, which will ensure that many state laws, such as those governing adoption, will be improved over the coming months”.
(13) Turkey's PM erupted, as he is wont to do, and put the squeeze on Milliyet .
(14) One can wear a dozen powerful sensors, own a smart mattress and even do a close daily reading of one's poop – as some self-tracking aficionados are wont to do – but those injustices would still be nowhere to be seen, for they are not the kind of stuff that can be measured with a sensor.
(15) They put in a number of safety measures: you wont find any manoeuvres over crowds, they’re done at a distance so that if a plane does come down it won’t come down on other people.
(16) Updated at 9.06am GMT 9.02am GMT Roux draws attention to, but then says he wont deal with, a message about Steenkamp's supposed drug use , as it is a "reflection of the deceased not the accused".
(17) Just as South Africa opened their World Cup with a goal that will be remembered forever, so England, as is their wont, contrived to open theirs with a goalkeeping blunder that will never be forgotten.
(18) Skrtel wrote: “After all rumours going around, I want to say the time I will spend on sideline wont be 3 months.
(19) Morrison, in her late 60s then, was at the height of her powers, a Nobel laureate with a famously low tolerance for journalists and critics, and a personal style as distinctive as her prose: silver dreadlocks, sharp, unwavering eye contact and a manner of speech – when she did speak – that, to her annoyance, people were wont to call poetry.
(20) Republican candidates for president are also wont to criticize the Federal Reserve, but for the opposite reasons from Sanders.