Provide vs Needs - What's the difference?
provide | needs |
To make a living; earn money for necessities.
To act to prepare for something.
To establish as a previous condition; to stipulate.
To give what is needed or desired, especially basic needs.
To furnish (with), cause to be present.
* Arbuthnot
To make possible or attainable.
* Milton
(obsolete, Latinism) To foresee.
To appoint to an ecclesiastical benefice before it is vacant. See provisor .
Of necessity; necessarily; indispensably; often with must , and equivalent to "of need".
* We needs must jangle, till at last / We fought and I was beat.
* , (A Shropshire Lad), XXV, line 3-4
(need)
As verbs the difference between provide and needs
is that provide is to make a living; earn money for necessities while needs is (need).As an adverb needs is
of necessity; necessarily; indispensably; often with must , and equivalent to "of need".As a noun needs is
.provide
English
Verb
(provid)- It is difficult to provide for my family working on minimum wage.
- The contract provides that the work be well done.
- I'll lend you the money, provided that you pay it back by Monday.
- Don't bother bringing equipment, as we will provide it.
- We aim to provide the local community with more green spaces.
- Rome was well provided with corn.
- He provides us with an alternative option.
- Bring me berries, or such cooling fruit / As the kind, hospitable woods provide .
- (Ben Jonson)
- (Prescott)
