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Needs

adverb
1.
In such a manner as could not be otherwise.  Synonyms: inevitably, necessarily, of necessity.  "We must needs by objective"



Need

verb
(past & past part. needed; pres. part. needing)
1.
Require as useful, just, or proper.  Synonyms: ask, call for, demand, involve, necessitate, postulate, require, take.  "Success usually requires hard work" , "This job asks a lot of patience and skill" , "This position demands a lot of personal sacrifice" , "This dinner calls for a spectacular dessert" , "This intervention does not postulate a patient's consent"
2.
Have need of.  Synonyms: require, want.
3.
Have or feel a need for.
noun
1.
A condition requiring relief.  Synonym: demand.  "God has no need of men to accomplish His work" , "There is a demand for jobs"
2.
Anything that is necessary but lacking.  Synonym: want.  "I tried to supply his wants"
3.
The psychological feature that arouses an organism to action toward a desired goal; the reason for the action; that which gives purpose and direction to behavior.  Synonyms: motivation, motive.  "He acted with the best of motives"
4.
A state of extreme poverty or destitution.  Synonyms: indigence, pauperism, pauperization, penury.  "A general state of need exists among the homeless"



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"Needs" Quotes from Famous Books



... unavoidably seek relief in mischievous and disorderly conduct. This doubly provokes the already exasperated teacher, who can hardly look with complaisance upon good behavior, and who, from a like cause, is in the same irritable condition of both body and mind with themselves. He, too, must needs give vent to his irascible feelings some how. And what way is more natural, under such circumstances, than to resort to the use of the ferule, the rod, and the strap! We have already referred to a case, in which formerly ...
— Popular Education - For the use of Parents and Teachers, and for Young Persons of Both Sexes • Ira Mayhew

... volume is intended for persons who have not had special training in the technicalities of climatology. Climate covers a wholly different field from that included in the meteorological text-books. It handles broad questions of climate in a way which has not been attempted in a single volume. The needs of the teacher and student have ...
— Criminal Man - According to the Classification of Cesare Lombroso • Gina Lombroso-Ferrero

... strongly in favor of the Union. Home Guard organizations had been hastily formed, and were doing their best for the protection of the railway. Most of the villages along the Lower Missouri contained a strong German element, which needs no question of its loyalty. The railway bridges were thoroughly guarded, and each town had a small garrison to suppress any rising of the Secessionists. The conduct of the people in these villages was quite different from ...
— Camp-Fire and Cotton-Field • Thomas W. Knox

... like the sound of a trumpet. And great, glorious Anthony Rowley! It needs no footnote to tell about him. It is enough to know that Rowley is a great, jovial soul, who, when the poetry is going to his liking, cries, "Heigh ho!"—and when Rowley cries, "Heigh ho!" my Philosopher ...
— By the Christmas Fire • Samuel McChord Crothers

... would be necessary, as the best bricklayers, I'm told, always carry a mortar-board, and there is a sort of caucus in these plummy professions nowadays that is anxious to keep outsiders from joining their ranks. But the country needs bricklayers, and will go on needing them for years. Let John Willie step forward ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, August 18th, 1920 • Various


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