English to English
verb
- require as useful, just, or proper
It takes nerve to do what she did.
Success usually requires hard work.
This job asks a lot of patience and skill.
This position demands a lot of personal sacrifice.
This dinner calls for a spectacular dessert.
This intervention does not postulate a patient's consent.
source: WordNet 3.0
- consider obligatory; request and expect
We require our secretary to be on time.
Aren't we asking too much of these children?.
I expect my students to arrive in time for their lessons.
source: WordNet 3.0
- make someone do something
source: WordNet 3.0
- have need of
This piano wants the attention of a competent tuner.
source: WordNet 3.0
- To demand; to insist upon having; to claim as by right and authority; to exact; as, to require the surrender of property.
source: Webster 1913
English to Tagalog
verb
- [ricuáir] Hingín; hilingín
source: Diccionario Ingles-Español-Tagalog