One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains.[…]But out of sight is out of mind. And that, together with the inherent yuckiness of the subject, means that many old sewers have been neglected and are in direneed of repair.
Lack of means of subsistence; poverty; indigence; destitution.
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Scotlandneeded a victory by eight points to have a realistic chance of progressing to the knock-out stages, and for long periods of a ferocious contest looked as if they might pull it off.
(transitive) To want strongly; to feel that one must have something.
After ten days of hiking, Ineeded a shower and a shave.
Energy has seldom been found where weneed it when we want it. Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame. With more settled people, animals were harnessed to capstans or caged in treadmills to turn grist into meal.
Seeing the British establishment struggle with the financial sector is like watching an alcoholic who still resists the idea that something drasticneeds to happen for him to turn his life around.
The verbneed is construed in a few different ways:
With a direct object, as in “I need your help.”
With ato-infinitive, as in “I need to go.” Here, the subject ofneed serves implicitly as the subject of the infinitive.
With a clause of the form “for [object] to [verb phrase]”, or simply “[object] to [verb phrase]” as in “I need for this to happen” or “I need this to happen.” In both variants, the object serves as the subject of the infinitive.
As a modal verb, with a bare infinitive; in negative polarity contexts, such as questions (“Need I say more?” “Need you have paid so much?”), with negative expressions such asnot (“It need not happen today”; “No one need ever know”), and with similar constructions (“There need only be one”; “it need be signed only by the president”; “I need hardly explain it”).Need in this use does not have inflected forms, aside from the contractionneedn’t.
With a gerund-participle, as in “The car needs washing”, or (in certain American dialects) with a past participle, as in “The car needs washed”[1] (both meaning roughly “The car needs to be washed”).
With a direct object and a predicative complement, as in “We need everyone here on time” (meaning roughly “We need everyone to be here on time”) or “I need it gone” (meaning roughly “I need it to be gone”).
In certain dialects, and colloquially in certain others, with an unmarked reflexive pronoun, as in “I need me a car.”
A sentence such as “I need you to sit down” or “you need to sit down” is more polite than the bare command “sit down”, but less polite than “please sit down”. It is considered somewhat condescending and infantilizing, hence dubbed by some “the kindergarten imperative”, but is quite common in American usage.[2]
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FromProto-Finnic*nek(“those”,medial). The nominative form has been extended with the regular nominative plural ending (-d). Compare dialectalFinnishnet(“they”,chiefly inanimate).
