want 
want (wänt, wônt)
transitive verb
- to have too little of; be deficient in; lack
- to be short by (a specified amount) it wants twelve minutes of midnight
- to feel the need of; long for; crave to want adventure
- to desire; wish or long: followed by the infinitive to want to travel
- to wish to see or speak with (someone) wanted on the phone
- to wish to apprehend, as for questioning or arrest wanted by the police
- Chiefly Brit. to require; need this wants attending to
Etymology: ME wanten < ON vanta, to be lacking, want: see wantthe
intransitive verb
- to have a need or lack: usually with for to want for money
- to lack the necessities of life; be destitute or impoverished “Waste not, want not”
- Rare to be lacking or missing for completeness or a certain result there wants but his approval
noun
- the state or fact of lacking, or having too little of, something needed or desired; scarcity; shortage; lack to suffer from want of adequate care
- a lack of the necessities of life; poverty; destitution to live in want
- a wish or desire for something; craving
- something needed or desired but lacking; need
Etymology: ME < ON vant, neut. of vanr, deficient < IE base *(e)wā-, to lack > L vanus, empty
want in (or out or off, etc.)
Informal to want to get, go, or come in (or out, off, etc.)
want
n.
want
v.
To desire
desire, require, aspire, hanker after, have an urge for, incline toward, fancy, covet, crave, long for, lust for, have a fondness for, have a passion for, have ambition, thirst after, hunger after, be greedy for, ache*, have a yen for*, have an itch for*. To lack
be deficient in, be deprived of, require; see need. See syn. study at desire, lack.
Object
- something: We want something that will result in a step forward.
- anyone: No, I don't want anyone to think that.
- anything: It's mine and I don't want anything there I didn't put there myself.
- peace: That the Party wants peace and positive work is hardly open to question.
- advice: It may be that you wish to discuss things in more detail or want advice in general.
Noun phrase with adjective complement
- compliant: Not for those who want nice, standards compliant, XHTML and CSS... Voidspace Story.
Adjective complement
- more: Epic has expanded its services division to increase the scope of its offering to clients who want more than pure online learning.
Modifying Another Word
- really: Do I really want to spend time maintaining a debate on top of my blog?
- n't: A second just has a man who does n't want to go into a hall of mirrors.
- just: Confused or just want a good book to help you learn how.. .
- always: She said " Oh, Larry you are great, but I've always wanted to marry a Luigi.
- ever: Abraham Lincoln Online: This website contains everything you will ever want to know about Abraham Lincoln.
Used with why or when
- when: The flexibility means that I can do the things that I want when I want.
Infinitive complement
- know: I want to know what I'm going to be doing, what I'm going to be involved in.
- do: I have already worked out what I want to do in the next few years.
- see: Do you want to see every episode from the start onwards?
- go: A second just has a man who doesn't want to go into a hall of mirrors.
- get: We just want to get people off the streets.
- hear: I don't want any music - I want to hear what people are saying We are happy to meet your wishes.
Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.
I had written him a letter which I had, for want of better Knowledge, sent to where I met him, down the Lachlan, years ago. He was shearing when I knew him, so I sent the letter to him, Just 'on spec', addressed as follows: 'Clancy, of the Overflow'. And an answer came directed in a writing unexpected, (And I think the same was written with a thumbnail dipped in tar) 'Twas his shearing mate who wrote it, and verbatim I will quote it: 'Clancy's gone to Queensland droving, and we don't know where he are.'
Therearetwothingstoaimat inlife: first, toget what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it.Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.
The most urgent tasks in Britain, once war is over, are, on the one hand, the making of a common attack on the giant evils of Want, Disease,Ignorance and Squalor, and on the other hand, the re-equipping of British industry.
Watch out w'en you'er gittin all you want. Fattenin' hogs ain't in luck.
Poets like painters, thus unskilled to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, And hide with ornaments their want of art. True wit is Nature to advantage dressed, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.
Mine is one of the jobs that, if you want it, you will never get itöand if you're seen to want it you will certainly never get it.
Please don't try to make things nice! All the wrong notes are right I want it that way.
O taste and see that the L isgood: blessed is the man that trusteth in him.O fear the L, ye his saints: for there isno wanttothemthat fear him.The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the L shall not want any good thing.
Without thinking highly either of men or matrimony, marriage had always been her object; it was the only honourable provision for well-educated young women of small fortune, and however uncertain of giving happiness, must be their pleasantest preservative from want.
They that are discontented under monarchy call it tyranny; and they that are displeased with aristocracy call it oligarchy; so also, they which find themselves grieved under a democracy call it anarchy, which signifies the want of government; and yet I think no man believes that want of government is any new kind of government.
Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep: So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.
If there is anything I hate in a woman, it's want of character.
Labor omnia vicit improbus et duris urgens in rebus egestas. Toil conquered the world, unrelenting toil, and want that pinches when life is hard.
I want to be alone.
Je ne veux pas tomber, non, je veux dispara|"tre. I do not want to fall; I want to disappear.
A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied.What more can one want?
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