different between mead vs need

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: m?d, IPA^(key): /mi?d/
• Rhymes: -i?d
• Homophone: meed

Etymology 1

From Middle English mede, from Old English medu, from Proto-Germanic *meduz, from Proto-Indo-European *méd?u (“honey; honey wine”).

Noun

mead (usually uncountable, plural meads)

1. An alcoholic drink fermented from honey and water.
2. (US) A drink composed of syrup of sarsaparilla or other flavouring extract, and water, and sometimes charged with carbon dioxide.

Alternative forms

• meath, meathe, meeth (all obsolete)

Derived terms

• mead-bench
• mead cup
• meaded
• meadery
• mead hall

Translations

See also

• bragget (“drink made from ale, honey & spices”)
• ambrosia (noun)
• mead on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

From Middle English mede (“meadow”), from Old English m?d. Cognate with West Frisian miede, Mede, German Low German Meed, Dutch made.

Noun

mead (plural meads)

1. (poetic) A meadow.
   • c. 1817, John Keats, Hither, hither, love —:

     Hither, hither, love — / ‘Tis a shady mead — / Hither, hither, love! / Let us feed and feed!

   • 1848, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 28:

     Four voices of four hamlets round, / From far and near, on mead and moor, / Swell out and fail, as if a door / Were shut between me and the sound […] .

   • 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D'Urbervilles:

     'We must overhaul that mead,' he resumed; 'this mustn't continny!'

   • 1920, H. P. Lovecraft, The Doom that Came to Sarnath:

     There ran little streams over bright pebbles, dividing meads of green and gardens of many hues, [...].

Derived terms

• Temple Meads
• Thamesmead

Anagrams

• ADEM, ADME, Adem, Dame, Edam, MEDA, dame, made

Spanish

Verb

mead

1. (Spain) Informal second-person plural (vosotros or vosotras) affirmative imperative form of mear.

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English mede, from Old English m?d.

Noun

mead

1. meadow

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: n?d, IPA^(key): /ni?d/, [n?i?d]
• (General American) IPA^(key): /nid/
• Homophones: knead, kneed
• Rhymes: -i?d

Etymology 1

From Middle English need, nede, a merger of two terms:

• Old English n?ed (West Saxon), n?d (Mercian), n?ad (“necessity, compulsion, want”), from Proto-Germanic *naudiz
• Old English n?od (“desire, longing”), from Proto-Germanic *neudaz (“wish, urge, desire, longing”), from Proto-Indo-European *new- (“to incline, tend, move, push, nod, wave”)

Noun

need (countable and uncountable, plural needs)

1. (countable and uncountable) A requirement for something; something needed.
   • 1650, Jeremy Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living

     Be governed by your needs, not by your fancy.
2. Lack of means of subsistence; poverty; indigence; destitution.

Usage notes

• Adjectives often used with “need”: urgent, dire, desperate, strong, unmet, bad, basic, critical, essential, big, terrible, modest, elementary, daily, everyday, special, educational, environmental, human, personal, financial, emotional, medical, nutritional, spiritual, public, developmental, organizational, legal, fundamental, audio-visual, psychological, corporate, societal, psychosocial, functional, additional, caloric, private, monetary, physiological, mental.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• in need

Etymology 2

From Middle English neden, from Old English n?odian.

Verb

need (third-person singular simple present needs, present participle needing, simple past and past participle needed)

1. (transitive) To have an absolute requirement for.
2. (transitive) To want strongly; to feel that one must have something.
3. (modal verb) To be obliged or required (to do something).

4. (intransitive) To be required; to be necessary.

   • When we have done it, we have done or duty, and all that is in our power, and indeed all that needs.
5. (obsolete, transitive) To be necessary (to someone).

Usage notes

• The verb need is construed in a few different ways:
  • With a direct object, as in “I need your help.”
  • With a to-infinitive, as in “I need to go.” Here, the subject of need 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 as not (“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 contraction needn’t.
  • With a gerund-participle, as in “The car needs washing”, or (in certain 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 politer 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.
• In older forms of English, when the pronoun thou was in active use, and verbs used -est for distinct second-person singular indicative forms, the verb need had the form needest, and had neededst for its past tense.
• Similarly, when the ending -eth was in active use for third-person singular present indicative forms, the form needeth was used.

Synonyms

• (desire): desire, wish for, would like, want, will (archaic)
• (lack): be without, lack
• (require): be in need of, require

Derived terms

• a woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle
• citation needed
• needed, unneeded
• need-to-know basis

Translations

References

Further reading

• need at OneLook Dictionary Search
• need in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• need in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• Dene, Dené, Eden, Ende, deen, dene, eden, ende

West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian n?d, n?d, from Proto-Germanic *naudiz.

Noun

need c (plural neden)

1. need

Derived terms

• needgefal
• needsaak

Further reading

• “need”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011