Imperative vs. Must — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Imperative and Must
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Imperative
Necessary or urgent
"It is imperative that we continue to move with speed to make housing more affordable" (Timothy Geithner).
Must
Must (from the Latin vinum mustum, "young wine") is freshly crushed fruit juice (usually grape juice) that contains the skins, seeds, and stems of the fruit. The solid portion of the must is called pomace and typically makes up 7–23% of the total weight of the must.
Imperative
Expressing a command or plea; peremptory
Requests that grew more and more imperative.
Must
To be obliged or required by morality, law, or custom
Citizens must register in order to vote.
Imperative
(Grammar) Of, relating to, or constituting the mood that expresses a command or request.
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Must
To be compelled, as by a physical necessity or requirement
Plants must have oxygen in order to live.
Imperative
A rule, principle, or need that requires or compels certain action
"the internal tension in [military] doctrine, between the desire to prescribe a common way of fighting and the imperative of adjusting particular military actions to circumstances" (Eliot A. Cohen).
Must
Used to express a command or admonition
You must not go there alone. You simply must be careful.
Imperative
A command; an order.
Must
To be determined to; have as a fixed resolve
If you must leave, do it quietly.
Imperative
The imperative mood.
Must
Used to indicate inevitability or certainty
We all must die.
Imperative
A verb form of the imperative mood.
Must
Used to indicate logical probability or presumptive certainty
If the lights were on, they must have been at home.
Imperative
Essential; crucial; extremely important.
That you come here right now is imperative.
Must
To be required or obliged to go
"I must from hence" (Shakespeare).
Imperative
(grammar) Of, or relating to the imperative mood.
Must
Something that is absolutely required or indispensable
Promptness on the job is a must. Comfortable boots are a must when going on a hike.
Imperative
(computing theory) Having semantics that incorporates mutable variables.
Must
The quality or condition of being stale or musty.
Imperative
Expressing a command; authoritatively or absolutely directive.
Imperative orders
Must
The unfermented or fermenting juice expressed from fruit, especially grapes.
Imperative
The grammatical mood expressing an order (see jussive). In English, the imperative form of a verb is the same as that of the bare infinitive.
The verbs in sentences like "Do it!" and "Say what you like!" are in the imperative.
Must
Variant of musth.
Imperative
A verb in imperative mood.
Must
Musk.
Imperative
(countable) An essential action, a must: something which is imperative.
Visiting Berlin is an imperative.
Must
To do with certainty; indicates that the speaker is certain that the subject will have executed the predicate.
If it has rained all day, it must be very wet outside.
You picked one of two, and it wasn't the first: it must have been the second.
Imperative
Expressive of command; containing positive command; authoritatively or absolutely directive; commanding; authoritative; as, imperative orders.
The suit of kings are imperative.
Must
To do as a requirement; indicates that the sentence subject is required as an imperative or directive to execute the sentence predicate, with failure to do so resulting in a failure or negative consequence.
Imperative
Not to be avoided or evaded; obligatory; binding; compulsory; as, an imperative duty or order.
Must
Used to indicate that something that is very likely, probable, or certain to be true.
The children must be asleep by now.
Imperative
Expressive of commund, entreaty, advice, or exhortation; as, the imperative mood.
Must
(transitive) To make musty.
Imperative
The imperative mood; also, a verb in the imperative mood.
Must
(intransitive) To become musty.
Imperative
A mood that expresses an intention to influence the listener's behavior
Must
Something that is mandatory or required.
If you're trekking all day, a map is a must.
Imperative
Some duty that is essential and urgent
Must
The property of being stale or musty.
Imperative
Requiring attention or action;
As nuclear weapons proliferate, preventing war becomes imperative
Requests that grew more and more imperative
Must
Something that exhibits the property of being stale or musty.
Imperative
Relating to verbs in the imperative mood
Must
Fruit juice that will ferment or has fermented, usually from grapes.
Must
To be obliged; to be necessitated; - expressing either physical or moral necessity; as, a man must eat for nourishment; we must submit to the laws.
Must
To be morally required; to be necessary or essential to a certain quality, character, end, or result; as, he must reconsider the matter; he must have been insane.
Likewise must the deacons be grave.
Morover, he [a bishop] must have a good report of them which are without.
Must
The expressed juice of the grape, or other fruit, before fermentation.
No fermenting must fills . . . the deep vats.
Must
Mustiness.
Must
To make musty; to become musty.
Must
Being in a condition of dangerous frenzy, usually connected with sexual excitement; - said of adult male elephants which become so at irregular intervals, typicaly due to increased testosterone levels.
Must
A necessary or essential thing;
Seat belts are an absolute must
Must
Grape juice before or during fermentation
Must
The quality of smelling or tasting old or stale or mouldy
Must
Highly recommended;
A book that is must reading
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