Need vs. Kneed — What's the Difference?

A need is something that is necessary for an organism to live a healthy life. Needs are distinguished from wants.

The joint between the thigh and the lower leg, formed by the articulation of the femur and the tibia and covered anteriorly by the patella.

A condition or situation in which something must be supplied in order for a certain condition to be maintained or a desired state to be achieved

The region of the leg that encloses and supports this joint.

Something required or wanted; a requisite

An analogous joint or part of a leg of a quadruped vertebrate.

Necessity; obligation

The joint between the femur and the tibia in an insect leg.

A condition of poverty or misfortune

Something resembling the human knee, such as a bent piece of pipe.

To be under the necessity of or the obligation to

The part of a garment, as of trousers, that covers the knee.

To have need of; require

A vertical, often conical, woody projection arising from the roots of certain swamp-growing trees

To have an obligation (to do something)

To strike with the knee.

To be subject (to an action) by obligation

Having a knee or knees, or, in combination, the stated type of knee or knees.

To want to be subject to

(botany) Having angular joints like the knee.

To be in need or want.

Simple past tense and past participle of knee

To be necessary.

Having knees;- used chiefly in composition; as, in-kneed; out-kneed; weak-kneed.

A requirement for something; something needed.

Geniculated; forming an obtuse angle at the joints, like the knee when a little bent; as, kneed grass.

Lack of means of subsistence; poverty; indigence; destitution.

(transitive) To have an absolute requirement for.

(transitive) To want strongly; to feel that one must have something.

(modal verb) To be obliged or required (to do something).

(intransitive) To be required; to be necessary.

To be necessary (to someone).

A state that requires supply or relief; pressing occasion for something; necessity; urgent want.

Want of the means of subsistence; poverty; indigence; destitution.

That which is needful; anything necessary to be done; (pl.) necessary things; business.

Situation of need; peril; danger.

To be in want of; to have cause or occasion for; to lack; to require, as supply or relief.

To be wanted; to be necessary.

Of necessity. See Needs.

A condition requiring relief;

Anything that is necessary but lacking;

The psychological feature that arouses an organism to action toward a desired goal; the reason for the action; that which gives purpose and direction to behavior;

A state of extreme poverty or destitution;

Require as useful, just, or proper;

Have need of;

Have or feel a need for;