Require vs. Need: What's the Difference?

To have as a requisite or necessity; need or depend on

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

To stipulate as obligatory by authority

Something required or wanted; a requisite

To demand as obligatory or appropriate

Necessity; obligation

To impose an obligation on; compel

A condition of poverty or misfortune

(obsolete) To ask (someone) for something; to request.

To be under the necessity of or the obligation to

To demand, to insist upon (having); to call for authoritatively.

To have need of; require

Naturally to demand (something) as indispensable; to need, to call for as necessary.

To have an obligation (to do something)

To demand of (someone) to do something.

To be subject (to an action) by obligation

To demand; to insist upon having; to claim as by right and authority; to exact; as, to require the surrender of property.

To want to be subject to

To demand or exact as indispensable; to need.

To be in need or want.

To ask as a favor; to request.

To be necessary.

Require as useful, just, or proper;

A requirement for something; something needed.

Consider obligatory; request and expect;

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

Make someone do something

(transitive) To have an absolute requirement for.

Have need of;

(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;