1. [verb] (obsolete) To ask (someone) for something; to request. [14th-17thc.]
2. [verb] To demand, to insist upon (having); to call for authoritatively. [from 14thc.]
3. [verb] Naturally to demand (something) as indispensable; to need, to call for as necessary. [from 15thc.]
4. [verb] To demand of (someone) to do something. [from 18thc.]
5. [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'.
6. [verb] 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'.
7. [verb] Make someone do something.
8. [verb] Have need of; 'This piano wants the attention of a competent tuner'.
