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Essential vs Import - What's the difference?

essential | import |

As nouns the difference between essential and import

is that essential is a necessary ingredient while import is import (the act of importing).

As an adjective essential

is necessary.

essential

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Necessary.
  • Very important; of high importance.
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  • Being in the basic form; showing its essence.
    • Don’t mind him being grumpy. That’s the essential Fred.
  • Really existing; existent.
  • * Webster (1623)
    • Is it true, that thou art but a name, / And no essential thing?
  • Such that each complementary region is irreducible, the boundary of each complementary region is incompressible by disks and monogons in the complementary region, and no leaf is a sphere or a torus bounding a solid torus in the manifold.
  • (medicine) Idiopathic.

    • Synonyms

    * indispensable, crucial, substantive * See also

    Antonyms

    * inessential, unessential, accidental, nonessential, unneeded, adscititious, unimportant, accessorial, unnecessary, incidental

    Derived terms

    * essential amino acid * essential fatty acid * essential listening * essential nutrient * essential oil * essentially * essentialness * quintessential

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A necessary ingredient.
  • A fundamental ingredient.

    • Related terms

    * essence ----

    import

    English

    Etymology 1

    (verb) From (etyl) importen, from (etyl) importer, from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (wikipedia import)
  • (countable) Something brought in from an exterior source, especially for sale or trade.
  • (uncountable) The practice of importing.
  • (uncountable) Significance, importance.
    • Synonyms
    * (significance) importancy, importance, meaning, significance, weight
    Antonyms
    * (practice of importing) export * (something brought in from a foreign country) export * insignificance

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To bring (something) in from a foreign country, especially for sale or trade.
  • To load a file into a software application from another version or system.
    • How can I import files from older versions of this application?
    Quotations
    * (English Citations of "import")
    Derived terms
    * importable * important * importer * importation
    Antonyms
    * (bring in from a foreign country) export

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) importare, and (etyl) importer, from (etyl) .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To be important; to be significant; to be of consequence.
  • * 1661 , Thomas Salusbury:
    • See how much it importeth to learn to take Time by the Fore-Top.''
  • To be of importance to (someone or something).
  • * 1593 , Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost :
    • This Letter is mistooke: it importeth none here: It is writ to laquenetta.
  • * Dryden
    • If I endure it, what imports it you?
  • To be incumbent on (someone to do something).
  • * 1762 , David Hume, The History of England :
    • It imports us to get all the aid and assistance we can.
  • To be important or crucial to (that something happen).
  • * 1819 , Shelley, "The Cenci":
    • It much imports your house That all should be made clear.
  • To mean, signify.
  • * Hooker
    • Every petition always import a multitude of speakers together.
  • (archaic) To express, to imply.

    • References

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