Must vs. Needs — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Must and Needs
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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.
Needs
Of necessity; necessarily
We must needs go.
Must
To be obliged or required by morality, law, or custom
Citizens must register in order to vote.
Needs
(archaic) Either directly or indirectly preceded or followed by an auxiliary verb, often must: of necessity or need; necessarily, indispensably.
Must
To be compelled, as by a physical necessity or requirement
Plants must have oxygen in order to live.
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Needs
Plural of need
Must
Used to express a command or admonition
You must not go there alone. You simply must be careful.
Needs
Of necessity; necessarily; indispensably; - often with must, and equivalent to of need.
A man must needs love mauger his head.
And he must needs go through Samaria.
He would needs know the cause of his repulse.
Must
To be determined to; have as a fixed resolve
If you must leave, do it quietly.
Needs
In such a manner as could not be otherwise;
It is necessarily so
We must needs by objective
Must
Used to indicate inevitability or certainty
We all must die.
Must
Used to indicate logical probability or presumptive certainty
If the lights were on, they must have been at home.
Must
To be required or obliged to go
"I must from hence" (Shakespeare).
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.
Must
The quality or condition of being stale or musty.
Must
The unfermented or fermenting juice expressed from fruit, especially grapes.
Must
Variant of musth.
Must
Musk.
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.
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.
Must
Used to indicate that something that is very likely, probable, or certain to be true.
The children must be asleep by now.
Must
(transitive) To make musty.
Must
(intransitive) To become musty.
Must
Something that is mandatory or required.
If you're trekking all day, a map is a must.
Must
The property of being stale or musty.
Must
Something that exhibits the property of being stale or musty.
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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