English words for 'Ellipsis of needs must when the devil drives.'
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verb
- To require to be borne or suffered; to cause.
- require to lose, suffer, or sacrifice
- To calculate or estimate a price.
- (transitive, ditransitive) To incur a charge of; to require payment of a (specified) price.
- (transitive, ditransitive) To cause something to be lost; to cause the expenditure or relinquishment of.
- (transitive, colloquial) To cost (a person) a great deal of money or suffering.
- be priced at
noun
- (heraldry) A cottise.
- Amount of money, time, etc. that is required or used.
- Quality; condition; property; value; worth; a wont or habit; disposition; nature; kind; characteristic.
- A negative consequence or loss that occurs or is required to occur.
- value measured by what must be given or done or undergone to obtain something
- the property of having material worth (often indicated by the amount of money something would bring if sold)
- the total spent for goods or services including money and time and labor
noun
- A need; requirement, necessity.
- Something which causes something else; a cause.
- An occurrence or state of affairs which causes some event or reaction; a motive or reason.
- The time when something happens.
- A reason or excuse; a motive; a persuasion.
- A favorable opportunity; a convenient or timely chance.
- A special event or function.
- A particular happening; an instance or time when something occurred.
- an opportunity to do something
- an event that occurs at a critical time
- a formal or official social gathering or ceremony of people
- the time of a particular event
- a rational motive for a belief or action
verb
verb
- To make like a devil; to invest with the character of a devil.
- (intransitive) To work as a ‘devil’; to work for a lawyer or writer without fee or recognition.
- To ghostwrite; to author while working as a ‘devil’.
- To shred fabric into its fibres for recycling, as in the production of mungo or shoddy.
- To grill with cayenne pepper; to season highly in cooking, as with pepper.
- To finely grind cooked ham or other meat with spices and condiments.
- To annoy or bother.
- To prepare a sidedish of shelled halved boiled eggs to whose extracted yolks are added condiments and spices, which mixture then is placed into the halved whites to be served.
- cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations
- coat or stuff with a spicy paste
name
noun
- (cycling, slang) An endurance event where riders who fall behind are periodically eliminated.
- A thing that is awkward or difficult to understand or do.
- (folklore) A fictional image of a man, usually red or orange in skin color; with a set of horns on his head, a pointed goatee and a long tail and carrying a pitchfork; that represents evil and portrayed to children in an effort to discourage bad behavior.
- A dust devil.
- (cooking) A dish, as a bone with the meat, broiled and excessively peppered; a grill with Cayenne pepper.
- (theology) An evil creature, the objectification of a hostile and destructive force.
- (nautical) Ellipsis of devil seam (“the seam between garboard strake and the keel, on wooden boats”).
- A Tasmanian devil.
- A person, especially a man; used to express a particular opinion of him, usually in the phrases poor devil and lucky devil.
- A printer's assistant.
- (euphemistic, with an article, as an intensifier) Hell.
- The bad part of the conscience; the opposite to the angel.
- A machine for tearing or cutting rags, cotton, etc., as used in the production of mungo or shoddy.
- (dialectal, in compounds) A barren, unproductive and unused area.
- (India) A poltergeist that haunts printing works.
- A wicked or naughty person, or one who harbors reckless, spirited energy, especially in a mischievous way; usually said of a young child.
- a cruel wicked and inhuman person
- a word used in exclamations of confusion
- an evil supernatural being
- a rowdy or mischievous person (usually a young man)
noun
- An evil being resident in or working for Hell; a devil.
- Any of various hesperiid butterflies of the genera Notocrypta and Udaspes.
- (in the plural) A person's fears or anxieties.
- (now chiefly historical) A false god or idol; a Satanic divinity.
- (Greek mythology) A tutelary deity or spirit intermediate between the major Olympian gods and mankind, especially a deified hero or the entity which supposedly guided Socrates, telling him what not to do.
- (card games) A type of patience or solitaire (card game) played in the UK and/or US.
- A source (especially personified) of great evil or wickedness; a destructive feeling or character flaw.
- A hypothetical entity with special abilities postulated for the sake of a thought experiment in philosophy or physics.
- A person's inner spirit or genius; a guiding or creative impulse.
- A very wicked or malevolent person; also (in weakened sense) a mischievous person, especially a child.
- (computing) Alternative spelling of daemon.
- Someone with great strength, passion or skill for a particular activity, pursuit etc.; an enthusiast.
- A spirit not considered to be inherently evil; a (non-Christian) deity or supernatural being.
- (physics) Acronym of distinct electron motion particle: a quasiparticle, a type of massless neutral electron excitation associated with superconductivity.
- a cruel wicked and inhuman person
- someone extremely diligent or skillful
- an evil supernatural being
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adj
- showing the cunning or ingenuity or wickedness typical of a devil
- extremely evil or cruel; expressive of cruelty or befitting hell
- (slang) (Devilishly) cunning or devious.
- Extremely wicked or cruel.
- (slang) Crazy, wild (sometimes especially due to being unexpected or surprising).
- Of or concerning the devil: devilish, satanic.
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noun
noun
verb
- deprive of a necessity and cause suffering
- deprive of food
- be hungry; go without food
- die of food deprivation
- have a craving, appetite, or great desire for
- (transitive) To force a combatant to submit or surrender by depriving of food, as in a targeted siege.
- (intransitive) To deteriorate for want of any essential thing.
- (intransitive) To be very hungry.
- (transitive) To deprive of nourishment or of some vital component.
- (transitive) To make suffer severely by depriving of food.
- (intransitive) To suffer severely because of lack of food or of not eating.
- (transitive, British, especially Yorkshire and Lancashire) To kill with cold; to (cause to) die from cold.
- (transitive) To kill or attempt to kill by depriving of food.
- (intransitive) To die because of lack of food or of not eating.
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adj
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verb
noun
- the act of demanding
- (economics) The market force that causes buyers to be both willing and able to buy a good or service, as measured by the amount of that good or service that is currently salable at any given price point; the amount itself.
- An urgent request.
- An order.
- A requirement.
- The desire to purchase goods and services.
- A forceful claim for something.
- (electricity supply) More precisely peak demand or peak load, a measure of the maximum power load of a utility's customer over a short period of time; the power load integrated over a specified time interval.
- an urgent or peremptory request
- the ability and desire to purchase goods and services
- required activity
- a condition requiring relief
noun
- the state of being urgent; an earnest and insistent necessity
- an urgent situation calling for prompt action
- pressing importance requiring speedy action
- insistent solicitation and entreaty
- Insistence, pressure, urge.
- The quality or condition of being urgent.
- (medicine) A sudden and compelling need to urinate that is difficult to defer, associated with conditions such as urinary tract infections and overactive bladder.
noun
- A fulfilment of a need or desire.
- The pleasure obtained by such fulfillment.
- A reparation for an injury or loss.
- The source of such gratification.
- A vindication for a wrong suffered.
- (euphemistic) Sexual pleasure.
- the contentment one feels when one has fulfilled a desire, need, or expectation
- state of being gratified or satisfied
- (law) the payment of a debt or fulfillment of an obligation
- compensation for a wrong
- act of fulfilling a desire or need or appetite
noun
- A need; requirement, necessity.
- Something which causes something else; a cause.
- An occurrence or state of affairs which causes some event or reaction; a motive or reason.
- The time when something happens.
- A reason or excuse; a motive; a persuasion.
- A favorable opportunity; a convenient or timely chance.
- A special event or function.
- A particular happening; an instance or time when something occurred.
- an opportunity to do something
- an event that occurs at a critical time
- a formal or official social gathering or ceremony of people
- the time of a particular event
- a rational motive for a belief or action
verb
noun
- An evil being resident in or working for Hell; a devil.
- Any of various hesperiid butterflies of the genera Notocrypta and Udaspes.
- (in the plural) A person's fears or anxieties.
- (now chiefly historical) A false god or idol; a Satanic divinity.
- (Greek mythology) A tutelary deity or spirit intermediate between the major Olympian gods and mankind, especially a deified hero or the entity which supposedly guided Socrates, telling him what not to do.
- (card games) A type of patience or solitaire (card game) played in the UK and/or US.
- A source (especially personified) of great evil or wickedness; a destructive feeling or character flaw.
- A hypothetical entity with special abilities postulated for the sake of a thought experiment in philosophy or physics.
- A person's inner spirit or genius; a guiding or creative impulse.
- A very wicked or malevolent person; also (in weakened sense) a mischievous person, especially a child.
- (computing) Alternative spelling of daemon.
- Someone with great strength, passion or skill for a particular activity, pursuit etc.; an enthusiast.
- A spirit not considered to be inherently evil; a (non-Christian) deity or supernatural being.
- (physics) Acronym of distinct electron motion particle: a quasiparticle, a type of massless neutral electron excitation associated with superconductivity.
- a cruel wicked and inhuman person
- someone extremely diligent or skillful
- an evil supernatural being
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noun
noun
noun
noun
- the state of being urgent; an earnest and insistent necessity
- an urgent situation calling for prompt action
- pressing importance requiring speedy action
- insistent solicitation and entreaty
- Insistence, pressure, urge.
- The quality or condition of being urgent.
- (medicine) A sudden and compelling need to urinate that is difficult to defer, associated with conditions such as urinary tract infections and overactive bladder.
noun
- A fulfilment of a need or desire.
- The pleasure obtained by such fulfillment.
- A reparation for an injury or loss.
- The source of such gratification.
- A vindication for a wrong suffered.
- (euphemistic) Sexual pleasure.
- the contentment one feels when one has fulfilled a desire, need, or expectation
- state of being gratified or satisfied
- (law) the payment of a debt or fulfillment of an obligation
- compensation for a wrong
- act of fulfilling a desire or need or appetite
verb
noun
- the act of demanding
- (economics) The market force that causes buyers to be both willing and able to buy a good or service, as measured by the amount of that good or service that is currently salable at any given price point; the amount itself.
- An urgent request.
- An order.
- A requirement.
- The desire to purchase goods and services.
- A forceful claim for something.
- (electricity supply) More precisely peak demand or peak load, a measure of the maximum power load of a utility's customer over a short period of time; the power load integrated over a specified time interval.
- an urgent or peremptory request
- the ability and desire to purchase goods and services
- required activity
- a condition requiring relief
verb
- To require to be borne or suffered; to cause.
- require to lose, suffer, or sacrifice
- To calculate or estimate a price.
- (transitive, ditransitive) To incur a charge of; to require payment of a (specified) price.
- (transitive, ditransitive) To cause something to be lost; to cause the expenditure or relinquishment of.
- (transitive, colloquial) To cost (a person) a great deal of money or suffering.
- be priced at
noun
- (heraldry) A cottise.
- Amount of money, time, etc. that is required or used.
- Quality; condition; property; value; worth; a wont or habit; disposition; nature; kind; characteristic.
- A negative consequence or loss that occurs or is required to occur.
- value measured by what must be given or done or undergone to obtain something
- the property of having material worth (often indicated by the amount of money something would bring if sold)
- the total spent for goods or services including money and time and labor
verb
- To make like a devil; to invest with the character of a devil.
- (intransitive) To work as a ‘devil’; to work for a lawyer or writer without fee or recognition.
- To ghostwrite; to author while working as a ‘devil’.
- To shred fabric into its fibres for recycling, as in the production of mungo or shoddy.
- To grill with cayenne pepper; to season highly in cooking, as with pepper.
- To finely grind cooked ham or other meat with spices and condiments.
- To annoy or bother.
- To prepare a sidedish of shelled halved boiled eggs to whose extracted yolks are added condiments and spices, which mixture then is placed into the halved whites to be served.
- cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations
- coat or stuff with a spicy paste
name
noun
- (cycling, slang) An endurance event where riders who fall behind are periodically eliminated.
- A thing that is awkward or difficult to understand or do.
- (folklore) A fictional image of a man, usually red or orange in skin color; with a set of horns on his head, a pointed goatee and a long tail and carrying a pitchfork; that represents evil and portrayed to children in an effort to discourage bad behavior.
- A dust devil.
- (cooking) A dish, as a bone with the meat, broiled and excessively peppered; a grill with Cayenne pepper.
- (theology) An evil creature, the objectification of a hostile and destructive force.
- (nautical) Ellipsis of devil seam (“the seam between garboard strake and the keel, on wooden boats”).
- A Tasmanian devil.
- A person, especially a man; used to express a particular opinion of him, usually in the phrases poor devil and lucky devil.
- A printer's assistant.
- (euphemistic, with an article, as an intensifier) Hell.
- The bad part of the conscience; the opposite to the angel.
- A machine for tearing or cutting rags, cotton, etc., as used in the production of mungo or shoddy.
- (dialectal, in compounds) A barren, unproductive and unused area.
- (India) A poltergeist that haunts printing works.
- A wicked or naughty person, or one who harbors reckless, spirited energy, especially in a mischievous way; usually said of a young child.
- a cruel wicked and inhuman person
- a word used in exclamations of confusion
- an evil supernatural being
- a rowdy or mischievous person (usually a young man)
verb
verb
- deprive of a necessity and cause suffering
- deprive of food
- be hungry; go without food
- die of food deprivation
- have a craving, appetite, or great desire for
- (transitive) To force a combatant to submit or surrender by depriving of food, as in a targeted siege.
- (intransitive) To deteriorate for want of any essential thing.
- (intransitive) To be very hungry.
- (transitive) To deprive of nourishment or of some vital component.
- (transitive) To make suffer severely by depriving of food.
- (intransitive) To suffer severely because of lack of food or of not eating.
- (transitive, British, especially Yorkshire and Lancashire) To kill with cold; to (cause to) die from cold.
- (transitive) To kill or attempt to kill by depriving of food.
- (intransitive) To die because of lack of food or of not eating.
verb
noun
verb
noun
- the act of demanding
- (economics) The market force that causes buyers to be both willing and able to buy a good or service, as measured by the amount of that good or service that is currently salable at any given price point; the amount itself.
- An urgent request.
- An order.
- A requirement.
- The desire to purchase goods and services.
- A forceful claim for something.
- (electricity supply) More precisely peak demand or peak load, a measure of the maximum power load of a utility's customer over a short period of time; the power load integrated over a specified time interval.
- an urgent or peremptory request
- the ability and desire to purchase goods and services
- required activity
- a condition requiring relief
adj
- showing the cunning or ingenuity or wickedness typical of a devil
- extremely evil or cruel; expressive of cruelty or befitting hell
- (slang) (Devilishly) cunning or devious.
- Extremely wicked or cruel.
- (slang) Crazy, wild (sometimes especially due to being unexpected or surprising).
- Of or concerning the devil: devilish, satanic.