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Necessary vs Well-known - What's the difference?

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Necessary is a related term of well-known.


As adjectives the difference between necessary and well-known

is that necessary is needed, required while well-known is familiar, famous, renowned or widely known.

As a noun necessary

is (archaic|british) bathroom, toilet, loo.

necessary

English

(wikipedia necessary)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • needed, required
  • * Shakespeare
    • 'Tis necessary he should die.
  • * Tillotson
    • A certain kind of temper is necessary to the pleasure and quiet of our minds.
  • Such as must be; not to be avoided; inevitable.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Death, a necessary end, / Will come when it will come.
  • Acting from necessity or compulsion; involuntary.
    • Whether man is a necessary or a free agent is a question much discussed.

    Synonyms

    * (needed) See also * (such as must be) inevitable, natural

    Antonyms

    * (needed) unnecessary * (such as must be) evitable, incidental, impossible

    Derived terms

    * necessarily * necessary condition

    Related terms

    * necessariness * necessitate * necessitation * necessitousness * necessitude * necessity

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    Noun

    (necessaries)
  • (archaic, British) bathroom, toilet, loo

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    well-known

    English

    Alternative forms

    * well known

    Adjective

  • Familiar, famous, renowned or widely known.
  • * , chapter=15
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=Edward Churchill still attended to his work in a hopeless mechanical manner like a sleep-walker who walks safely on a well-known round. But his Roman collar galled him, his cossack stifled him, his biretta was as uncomfortable as a merry-andrew's cap and bells.}}
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author= Philip J. Bushnell
    • , magazine=(American Scientist), title= Solvents, Ethanol, Car Crashes & Tolerance , passage=Furthermore, this increase in risk is comparable to the risk of death from leukemia after long-term exposure to benzene, another solvent, which has the well-known property of causing this type of cancer.}}
  • (computing, not comparable) Generally recognised; reserved for some usual purpose.
  • * 1972 , Vint Cerf, Jon Postel, RFC 322 - Well known socket numbers
    • We would like to catalog other sockets which are supposed to be well-known
  • * 2003 , John Mueller, .NET development security solutions
    • If the call to this function fails, you can assume the SID was invalid — even if it's a well-known SID.
  • * 2007 , Larry L Peterson, Bruce S Davie, Computer networks: a systems approach
    • A common approach is for the server to accept messages at a well-known port.

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