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To have an absolute requirement for.
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Living things need water to survive.
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To want strongly; to feel that one must have something.
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After ten days of hiking, I needed a shower and a shave.
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(modal verb) To be obliged or required (to do something).
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You need not go if you don't want to.
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To be required; to be necessary.
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To be necessary (to someone).
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A need.
He closed his personal net, needing to concentrate.
I was the logical candidate as both women had children needing attention.
Others hold the problem to be insoluble, and not needing to be solved.
We held hands, needing each other's comfort.
She took in his words, surprised he'd admit to needing a human.
The war is blamed by Turkish historians as unjustifiable and untimely, the country needing reform.
It holds water well and is consequently cold, needing the application of much heat to raise its temperature.
Rich strips of alluvial soil, however, seam a cold clay-marl, needing intensive cultivation to become highly productive.
The miracles of the New Testament, which had formerly been received as bulwarks of Christianity, now appeared as difficulties needing explanation.
Sensation irresistibly produces a judgment of existence without needing language.
In especial he showed clear understanding of the functions of hypothesis and verification in the investigations of the solitary worker, with his facts still in course of accumulation and needing to be lighted up by the scientific imagination.
The British Pharmacopeia contains a large number of preparations of cantharides, but the only one needing special mention is the tincture, which is meant for internal administration; the small dose is noteworthy, five minims being probably the maximum for safety.
Massachusetts, Plymouth, Connecticut and New Haven constituted in their early years a group of neighbouring colonies, substantially independent of the mother country, and possessing a unity of purpose and similar institutions but in need of mutual protection from the Indians, the Dutch and the French, and also needing an arbiter to whom they might refer their own disputes, especially those relating to boundaries and trade.
In 457 Sparta, needing a counterpoise against Athens in central Greece, reversed her policy and reinstated Thebes as the dominant power in Boeotia.
Such comparison, though needing caution and reserve, at once proved of great value to anthropology.
The stress that their psychology laid on the essential unity of the rational self that is the source of voluntary action prevented them from accepting Plato's analysis of the soul into a regulative element and elements needing regulation.
It is therefore hardly surprising that his theory should leave the specific quality of the moral sentiments a fact still needing to be explained.
It was the first city outside of Italy which obtained such a municipal charter, without the usual implantation of Roman citizens (either poor men needing land or discharged veteran soldiers) from Italy.
In that year Portugal fell away without needing to strike a blow.
Other advantages are given in connexion with the qualifying of experts, &c., while nearly all the county associations in the United Kingdom employ qualified men who visit members in spring and autumn for the purpose of examining hives and giving advice on bee management to those needing it.
She continued to walk, needing to feel the cold to remind her she was still alive.
Deidre fled to it, needing something to bolster the defenses that were dropping too fast.
Deidre set down the journal, needing to distract her thoughts before she started to panic again.
Deidre stopped only when they were toe-to-toe and leaned into him, needing the heat and solidness of his body to quiet her distress.
Deidre waited, needing to know what it would take for him to love her.
He called a portal and left, needing to escape then realizing the emotions he didn't want to feel went with him.
She made her way to the wall, needing to feel the cool ocean breeze.
He took his time with his weapons, needing to keep his hands occupied so he didn't take her up on her offer.
The photographer's assistant yelped suddenly, and she turned her head, needing the distraction from the infuriating wall of pure male lying on top of her.
The 83rd Novell provides that if the offence be ecclesiastical, needing ecclesiastical correction, the bishop shall take cognizance of it.
It follows that alcohol is a food in fever, and its value in this regard is greatly increased by the fact that it requires no primary digestion, but passes without changes, and without needing change, to the tissues which are to use it.
There are no indications of any form of doctrinal heresy as needing rebuke; the warnings against false teaching are quite general.
It was therefore equal to 79,200 in., and divided decimally into 10 furlongs 100 chains, or 1000 fathoms. For the existence of this fathom (half the Belgic pertica) we have the proof of its half, or yard, needing to be suppressed by statute (9) in 1439, as "the yard and full hand," or about 40 in., -- evidently the yard of the most usual old English foot of 13.22, which would be 39.66.
Leo X., needing a subsidy from the English clergy, sent Campeggio to England on the ostensible business of arranging a crusade against the Turks.
In this change is the whole difference between the art of character and the art of emotion; and though the emotional side is the more popular, ul needing less thought to understand it, yet the unfailing canon is that in every age and land the true quality of art is proportionate to the expression of character as apart from transient emotion.
She leaned into him, needing more of his magic and his touch.
She backed away as he approached, feeling the threat without needing to see it on his face.
The foregoing processes are all peculiar to the silk waste trade, no other fibre having to go through such processes, nor needing such machinery.
The object of this proposal was to give effect to the idea that the existing " permanent " court lacked the essential characteristics of national courts of justice in not being ready at all times to hear cases, and in needing to be specially constituted for every case submitted to it.
But the primary sense of touch perceives one bodily member causing pressure on another, reciprocally, within the organism, from which we infer similar particular pressures caused between the organism and the external world; but without needing the supposed stupendous belief and assumption of the uniformity of Nature, which is altogether ignored in the inferences of the ordinary man.
Leopold, therefore, who made his debut on the European stage as the executor of the ban of the Empire against the insurgent Liegeois, was free to pose as the champion of order against the Revolution, without needing to fear the resentment of his subjects.
Of her needing his blood.
Needing just 30,000 fans to snap up a ' must have ' record will make sales easy, and recuperate costs.
The Alpine Type-S and Type-R series are usually a safe bet, whereas the entry-level Pioneer sets can provide good value for those not needing higher-end speakers.
Gabe saw the half-demon's eyes flare silver and pursued, wanting … needing a fight.
Katie's mind went to Gabe's words about needing to leave before the seventh day. It was day six. She wasn't sure they'd make his timeline – or even why it still mattered that she reached wherever he was taking her. There had to be something to what he told her, and she wished once more he'd told her why.
Kenya's largest accipiter, usually found alone or in pairs with a pair needing a territory of around 13 sq Km in Kenya.
Not so when it comes to international services overflying many countries ' airspace and needing sophisticated satellite connections.
The good thing about doing demos in Britain is that it always rains - the perfect legal reason for needing that toasty balaclava.
They are, however, extremely beneficial in reducing the amount of waste needing to be disposed of.
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