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want
(mass) | want
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want
(encz) | want,chtít v: |
want
(encz) | want,nedostatek n: Zdeněk Brož |
want
(encz) | want,nouze n: Zdeněk Brož |
want
(encz) | want,potřeba n: Zdeněk Brož |
want
(encz) | want,potřebovat v: Pavel Cvrček |
want
(encz) | want,požadavek n: Zdeněk Brož |
want
(encz) | want,přát v: Pavel Machek; Giza |
want
(encz) | want,přát si Zdeněk Brož |
Want
(gcide) | Want \Want\, v. i. [Icel. vanta to be wanting. See Want to
lack.]
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1. 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.
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The disposition, the manners, and the thoughts are
all before it; where any of those are wanting or
imperfect, so much wants or is imperfect in the
imitation of human life. --Dryden.
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2. To be in a state of destitution; to be needy; to lack.
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You have a gift, sir (thank your education),
Will never let you want. --B. Jonson.
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For as in bodies, thus in souls, we find
What wants in blood and spirits, swelled with wind.
--Pope.
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Note: Want was formerly used impersonally with an indirect
object. "Him wanted audience." --Chaucer.
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Want
(gcide) | Want \Want\ (277), n. [Originally an adj., from Icel. vant,
neuter of vanr lacking, deficient. [root]139. See Wane, v.
i.]
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1. 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.
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And me, his parent, would full soon devour
For want of other prey. --Milton.
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From having wishes in consequence of our wants, we
often feel wants in consequence of our wishes.
--Rambler.
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Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and more saucy.
--Franklin.
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2. Specifically, absence or lack of necessaries; destitution;
poverty; penury; indigence; need.
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Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches,
as to conceive how others can be in want. --Swift.
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3. 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.
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Habitual superfluities become actual wants. --Paley.
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4. (Mining) A depression in coal strata, hollowed out before
the subsequent deposition took place. [Eng.]
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Syn: Indigence; deficiency; defect; destitution; lack;
failure; dearth; scarceness.
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Want
(gcide) | Want \Want\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Wanted; p. pr. & vb. n.
Wanting.]
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1. 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.
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They that want honesty, want anything. --Beau. & Fl.
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Nor think, though men were none,
That heaven would want spectators, God want praise.
--Milton.
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The unhappy never want enemies. --Richardson.
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2. 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.
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3. To feel need of; to wish or long for; to desire; to crave.
" What wants my son?" --Addison.
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I want to speak to you about something. --A.
Trollope.
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Wa'n't
(gcide) | Wa'n't \Wa'n't\
A colloquial contraction of was not.
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want
(wn) | want
n 1: a state of extreme poverty [syn: privation, want,
deprivation, neediness]
2: the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable;
"there is a serious lack of insight into the problem"; "water
is the critical deficiency in desert regions"; "for want of a
nail the shoe was lost" [syn: lack, deficiency, want]
3: anything that is necessary but lacking; "he had sufficient
means to meet his simple needs"; "I tried to supply his
wants" [syn: need, want]
4: a specific feeling of desire; "he got his wish"; "he was
above all wishing and desire" [syn: wish, wishing,
want]
v 1: feel or have a desire for; want strongly; "I want to go
home now"; "I want my own room" [syn: desire, want]
2: have need of; "This piano wants the attention of a competent
tuner" [syn: want, need, require]
3: hunt or look for; want for a particular reason; "Your former
neighbor is wanted by the FBI"; "Uncle Sam wants you"
4: wish or demand the presence of; "I want you here at noon!"
5: be without, lack; be deficient in; "want courtesy"; "want the
strength to go on living"; "flood victims wanting food and
shelter" |
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