English Dictionary

need

/niːd/

verb

(transitive) To have an absolute requirement for. / (transitive) To want strongly; to feel that one must have something. / (modal verb) To be obliged or required (to do something).

I need to go to the store.

意味（1）

(transitive) To have an absolute requirement for.

Living things need water to survive.

意味（2）

(transitive) To want strongly; to feel that one must have something.

After ten days of hiking, I needed a shower and a shave.

意味（3）

(modal verb) To be obliged or required (to do something).

You need not go if you don't want to.

意味（4）

(intransitive) To be required; to be necessary.

When we have done it, we have done or duty, and all that is in our power, and indeed all that needs.

意味（5）

(obsolete, transitive) To be necessary (to someone).

More ample spirit, then hitherto was wount, / Here needes me […]