Crossword clues for must
must
- Is compelled to
- Is forced to
- Indispensable item
- Vital win
- Needs to
- Have no choice
- Doesn't have a choice
- Vital thing
- Obligatory item
- Non-negotiable item
- Mould — grape juice during fermentation
- More than ought
- It's compulsory
- Indispensible thing
- His obnoxious brother-in-law --- Gogh
- Has no other choice
- Grape juice ready for fermentation
- Evidence of disuse
- Closet-y smell
- Can't refuse to
- Absolute essential
- A necessary thing
- A necessary thing: Colloq
- "You ___ be kidding!"
- "It's a __-see!": "Don't miss it!"
- "I ___ be dreaming!"
- "Everything ___ go!"
- "___ Love Dogs" (2005 rom-com)
- Nonnegotiable item
- New wine
- Moldiness
- Essential thing
- Be compelled to
- Have to
- Has to
- Event not to be missed
- Can't-miss event
- Is required to
- Obligation word
- Compulsion
- Requirement
- Staleness
- Is obliged to
- Grape juice for fermentation
- New wine has an obligation to smell
- Can't help but
- Part 2 of today's quote
- Sine qua non
- Is obligated to
- Absolute requirement
- ___-win situation
- Need to
- It's not optional
- It's not an option
- Has no choice
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
must \must\, musth \musth\(m[u^]st), a. [Hind. mast intoxicated, ruttish, fr. Skr. matta, p.p. of mad to rejoice, intoxicate.] (Zo["o]l.) Being in a condition of dangerous frenzy, usually connected with sexual excitement; -- said of adult male elephants which become so at irregular intervals, typicaly due to increased testosterone levels. -- n.
The condition of frenzy.
An elephant in must.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English moste, past tense of motan "have to, be able to," from Proto-Germanic *mot- "ability, leisure (to do something)" (cognates: Old Saxon motan "to be obliged to, have to," Old Frisian mota, Middle Low German moten, Dutch moeten, German müssen "to be obliged to," Gothic gamotan "to have room to, to be able to"), perhaps from PIE root *med- "to measure, to take appropriate measures" (see medical (adj.)). Used as present tense from c.1300, from the custom of using past subjunctive as a moderate or polite form of the present.
"new wine," Old English must, from Latin mustum (also source of Old High German, German most, Old French moust, Modern French moût, Spanish, Italian mosto), short for vinum mustum "fresh wine," neuter of mustus "fresh, new, newborn," perhaps literally "wet," and from PIE *mus-to-, from root *meus- "damp" (see moss).
"mold," c.1600, perhaps a back-formation of musty (q.v.).
"male elephant frenzy," 1871, from Urdu mast "intoxicated, in rut," from Persian mast, literally "intoxicated," related to Sanskrit matta- "drunk, intoxicated," past participle of madati "boils, bubbles, gets drunk," from PIE root *mad- "wet, moist" (see mast (n.2)).
"that which has to be done, seen, or experienced," 1892, from must (v.). As an adjective, "obligatory, indispensable," by 1912, from the noun; must-read is from 1959.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. Something that is mandatory or required. vb. 1 (context modal auxiliary defective English) To do with certainty; (non-gloss definition: indicates that the speaker is certain that the subject will have executed the predicate). 2 (context modal auxiliary defective English) To do as a requirement; (non-gloss definition: indicates that the sentence subject is required as an imperative or directive to execute the sentence predicate, with failure to do so resulting in a negative consequence). Etymology 2
n. 1 The property of being stale or musty. 2 Something that exhibits the property of being stale or musty. 3 Fruit juice that will ferment or has fermented, usually grapes. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To make musty. 2 (context intransitive English) To become musty. Etymology 3
n. 1 A time during which male elephants exhibit increased levels of sexual activity and aggressiveness (qualifier: also spelled ''musth''). 2 An elephant in this sexual and aggressive state.
WordNet
adj. highly recommended; "a book that is must reading" [syn: must(a)]
Wikipedia
Must (from the Latin vinum mustum, "young wine") is freshly pressed fruit juice (usually grape juice) that contains the skins, seeds, and stems of the fruit. The solid portion of the must is called pomace; it typically makes up 7–23% of the total weight of the must. Making must is the first step in winemaking. Because of its high glucose content, typically between 10 and 15%, must is also used as a sweetener in a variety of cuisines. Unlike commercially sold grape juice, which is filtered and pasteurized, must is thick with particulate matter, opaque, and comes in various shades of brown and/or purple.
Must is a pilon juice made out of freshly pressed grapes.
Must or MUST may also refer to:
- Must (surname)
- Musth or must, a periodic physiological and behavioural change affecting bull elephants
- Julmust, a Swedish soft drink made out of extracts of hop and malt
- Must, one of the English modal verbs
- Medical Unit, Self-contained, Transportable, a type of hospital equipment used by the United States Army circa 1960-1990
Must is an Estonian surname meaning black. Notable people with the surname include:
- Ivar Must (born 1961), Estonian composer
- Raul Must (born 1987), Estonian badminton player
Usage examples of "must".
Thus attended, the hapless mourner entered the place, and, according to the laudable hospitality of England, which is the only country in Christendom where a stranger is not made welcome to the house of God, this amiable creature, emaciated and enfeebled as she was, must have stood in a common passage during the whole service, had not she been perceived by a humane gentlewoman, who, struck with her beauty and dignified air, and melted with sympathy at the ineffable sorrow which was visible in her countenance, opened the pew in which she sat, and accommodated Monimia and her attendant.
When we reach that period my readers must kindly accompany me to the breakfast.
I have made up my mind, you must be good enough to decide now, and to tell me whether I am to accompany you or to remain here.
I shall leave for Naples to-morrow, and I know I shall be cured in time of the mad passion I feel for you, but if you tell me that I can accompany you to Parma, you must promise me that your heart will forever belong to me alone.
And you alone shall share it with me, keeping me strong, and helping me accomplish what I must.
Roosevelt in a position, in spite of the enormous amount of work which must rest upon him in his own country, to recognize of his own accord all these inner spiritual and mental impressions of other peoples and their governments?
Congressional legislation which is to be made effective through negotiation and inquiry within the international field must often accord to the President a degree of discretion and freedom from statutory restriction which would not be admissible were domestic affairs alone involved.
Now it must be observed that every virtue acts in accordance with the time being, as also in keeping with other due circumstances, wherefore the virtue of penance has its act at this time, according to the requirements of the New Law.
That teaching we have inherited from those ancient philosophers who have best probed into soul and we must try to show that our own doctrine is accordant with it, or at least not conflicting.
The question presented was whether a judgment rendered by a New York court under a statute which provided that, when joint debtors were sued and one of them was brought into court on a process, a judgment in favor of the plaintiff would entitle him to execute against all, and so must be accorded full faith and credit in Louisiana when offered as the basis of an action in debt against a resident of that State who had not been served by process in the New York action.
But, to say the truth, there is a more simple and plain method of accounting for that prodigious superiority of penetration which we must observe in some men over the rest of the human species, and one which will serve not only in the case of lovers, but of all others.
IT or human resources, the accounting department, or the maintenance staff, there are certain security policies that every employee of your company must know.
Now I know that it must have been because she had learned that John Carter, Prince of Helium, was approaching to demand an accounting of her for the imprisonment of his Princess.
However, we now know that the love accouplement must have lasted for at least one full hour.
Today the main display was a diorama of the center of the Galaxy, with a brilliant pinpoint that must be Chandra itself, surrounded by an accretion disc and other astrophysical monstrosities.