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REQUIRE

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 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make someone do something

Synonyms:

command; require

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "require" is one way to...):

enjoin; order; say; tell (give instructions to or direct somebody to do something with authority)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "require"):

burden; charge; saddle (impose a task upon, assign a responsibility to)

requisition (make a formal request for official services)

disallow; forbid; interdict; nix; prohibit; proscribe; veto (command against)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody to INFINITIVE

Sentence example:

They require him to write the letter

Derivation:

requisition (the act of requiring; an authoritative request or demand, especially by a military or public authority that takes something over (usually temporarily) for military or public use)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Consider obligatory; request and expect

Example:

I expect my students to arrive in time for their lessons

Synonyms:

ask; expect; require

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "require" is one way to...):

demand (request urgently and forcefully)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "require"):

call (require the presentation of for redemption before maturation)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something from somebody
Somebody ----s somebody to INFINITIVE

Sentence example:

They require him to write the letter

Derivation:

requirement (required activity)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Have need of

Example:

This piano wants the attention of a competent tuner

Synonyms:

need; require; want

Classified under:

Verbs of eating and drinking

Hypernyms (to "require" is one way to...):

be (have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun))

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "require"):

cry (demand immediate action)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Sentence examples:

They require more bread

They require him to write the letter

Derivation:

requirement (anything indispensable)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Require as useful, just, or proper

Example:

This intervention does not postulate a patient's consent

Synonyms:

ask; call for; demand; involve; necessitate; need; postulate; require; take

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Verb group:

claim; exact; take (take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "require"):

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)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody to INFINITIVE
It ----s that CLAUSE

Derivation:

requirement (required activity)

Credits

 Context examples: 

Shortly after breakfast Henry left them for Woodston, where business required and would keep him two or three days.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

They had no conversation together, no intercourse but what the commonest civility required.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

You should rather ask the name of the governess—the nature of the event which requires her appearance.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I must pause here, for it requires all my fortitude to recall the memory of the frightful events which I am about to relate, in proper detail, to my recollection.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Tie2 is an endothelial cell specific receptor that is activated by angiopoietins, growth factors required for angiogenesis.

(Multikinase Inhibitor ARRY614, NCI Thesaurus)

Epithelial repair requires restitution and regeneration.

(Mucosal Healing Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

The captain has said too much or he has said too little, and I'm bound to say that I require an explanation of his words.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

I have only to beg that, if the occasion should require it, you will all give me your assistance to keep the ground clear, to prevent confusion, and to have a fair fight.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It will require some checking and you have little time to check it.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

An indication that a change in treatment or a change to a device will be required following an adverse event.

(Modification or Adjustment, NCI Thesaurus)