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tarve — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • call verb To contact someone by phone, or to cry out or shout to get attention.
  • craving noun A strong, persistent desire for something.
  • demand noun In economics, people's desire and ability to buy a particular good or service at a given price.
  • necessity noun The state of being required or unavoidable.
  • need noun A requirement for something essential or important.
  • occasion noun A particular time when something happens, especially something notable.

Senses

tarve is used for these senses in English:

  • call (in negative constructions) Need; necessity.
  • craving A strong desire; yearning.
  • necessity The quality or state of being necessary, unavoidable, or absolutely requisite.
  • necessity The condition of being needy; desperate need; lack.
  • necessity Something necessary; a requisite; something indispensable.
  • necessity Something which makes an act or an event unavoidable; an irresistible force; overruling power.
  • necessity The negation of freedom in voluntary action; the subjection of all phenomena, whether material or spiritual, to inevitable causation; necessitarianism.
  • need (countable, and, uncountable) A requirement for something; something needed.

call — full definition

  1. verb To contact someone by phone, or to cry out or shout to get attention.
  2. verb To give someone or something a name; to refer to something in a particular way.
  3. verb To pay a brief visit, or to stop at a place, especially a ship stopping at a port.
  4. verb To predict or officially declare an outcome.
  5. noun An act of speaking to someone on the phone.

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