Definition of need

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Need (n.) A state that requires supply or relief; pressing occasion for something; necessity; urgent want.

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Requisition :: Requisition (n.) A formal application by one officer to another for things needed in the public service; as, a requisition for clothing, troops, or money..
Polar :: Polar (a.) Of or pertaining to the magnetic pole, or to the point to which the magnetic needle is directed..
Acupressure :: Acupressure (n.) A mode of arresting hemorrhage resulting from wounds or surgical operations, by passing under the divided vessel a needle, the ends of which are left exposed externally on the cutaneous surface..
Sew :: Sew (v. i.) To practice sewing; to work with needle and thread.
Work :: Work (v. t.) To form with a needle and thread or yarn; especially, to embroider; as, to work muslin..
Truism :: Truism (n.) An undoubted or self-evident truth; a statement which is pliantly true; a proposition needing no proof or argument; -- opposed to falsism.
Needly :: Needly (a.) Like a needle or needles; as, a needly horn; a needly beard..
Corona :: Corona (n.) A peculiar phase of the aurora borealis, formed by the concentration or convergence of luminous beams around the point in the heavens indicated by the direction of the dipping needle..
Behoovable :: Behoovable (a.) Supplying need; profitable; advantageous.
Insufficient :: Insufficient (a.) Not sufficient; not enough; inadequate to any need, use, or purpose; as, the provisions are insufficient in quantity, and defective in quality..
Needle :: Needle (n.) See Magnetic needle, under Magnetic..
Obelus :: Obelus (n.) A mark [thus /, or � ]; -- so called as resembling a needle. In old MSS. or editions of the classics, it marks suspected passages or readings..
Needle :: Needle (n.) Any slender, pointed object, like a needle, as a pointed crystal, a sharp pinnacle of rock, an obelisk, etc..
Alarmist :: Alarmist (n.) One prone to sound or excite alarms, especially, needless alarms..
Abscission :: Abscission (n.) A figure of speech employed when a speaker having begun to say a thing stops abruptly: thus, He is a man of so much honor and candor, and of such generosity -- but I need say no more..
Suspend :: Suspend (n.) To attach to something above; to hang; as, to suspend a ball by a thread; to suspend a needle by a loadstone..
Needless :: Needless (a.) Having no need.
Needle :: Needle (n.) A small instrument of steel, sharply pointed at one end, with an eye to receive a thread, -- used in sewing..
Sewing :: Sewing (n.) That which is sewed with the needle.
Aciform :: Aciform (a.) Shaped like a needle.
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