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Imperative vs. Must — What's the Difference?

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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