require

Verb
  1. Require as useful, just, or proper (synset 202634015)
    "It takes nerve to do what she did"; "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"
    subtypes:
    • claim, exact, take - take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs
    • govern - require to be in a certain grammatical case, voice, or mood
    • draw - require a specified depth for floating
    • cost - require to lose, suffer, or sacrifice
    • cry for, cry out for - need badly or desperately
    • compel - necessitate or exact
    same as: ask, call for, demand, involve, necessitate, need, postulate, take
    verb group: claim, exact, take - take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs
  2. Consider obligatory;
    Request and expect (synset 200757790)
    "We require our secretary to be on time"; "Aren't we asking too much of these children?"; "I expect my students to arrive in time for their lessons"
    is a type of: demand - request urgently and forcefully
    subtypes: call - require the presentation of for redemption before maturation
    same as: ask, expect
  3. Make someone do something (synset 200753573)
    is a type of: enjoin, order, say, tell - give instructions to or direct somebody to do something with authority
    subtypes:
    same as: command
  4. Have need of (synset 201191258)
    "This piano wants the attention of a competent tuner"
    is a type of: be - have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun)
    subtypes: cry - demand immediate action
    same as: need, want

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