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Difference Between Required and Must

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Definitions

Required

Needed; essential
Missing several required parts.

Must

Must (from the Latin vinum mustum, "young wine") is freshly crushed fruit juice (usually grape juice) that contains the skins, seeds, and stems of the fruit. The solid portion of the must is called pomace and typically makes up 7–23% of the total weight of the must.

Required

Obligatory
Required reading.

Must

To be obliged or required by morality, law, or custom
Citizens must register in order to vote.

Required

Simple past tense and past participle of require
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Must

To be compelled, as by a physical necessity or requirement
Plants must have oxygen in order to live.

Required

Necessary; obligatory; mandatory.

Must

Used to express a command or admonition
You must not go there alone. You simply must be careful.

Required

Necessary for relief or supply;
Provided them with all things needful

Must

To be determined to; have as a fixed resolve
If you must leave, do it quietly.
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Required

Required by rule;
In most schools physical education are compulsory
Attendance is mandatory
Required reading

Must

Used to indicate inevitability or certainty
We all must die.

Must

Used to indicate logical probability or presumptive certainty
If the lights were on, they must have been at home.

Must

To be required or obliged to go
"I must from hence" (Shakespeare).

Must

Something that is absolutely required or indispensable
Promptness on the job is a must. Comfortable boots are a must when going on a hike.

Must

The quality or condition of being stale or musty.

Must

The unfermented or fermenting juice expressed from fruit, especially grapes.

Must

Variant of musth.

Must

Musk.

Must

To do with certainty; indicates that the speaker is certain that the subject will have executed the predicate.
If it has rained all day, it must be very wet outside.
You picked one of two, and it wasn't the first: it must have been the second.

Must

To do as a requirement; 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 failure or negative consequence.

Must

Used to indicate that something that is very likely, probable, or certain to be true.
The children must be asleep by now.

Must

(transitive) To make musty.

Must

(intransitive) To become musty.

Must

Something that is mandatory or required.
If you're trekking all day, a map is a must.

Must

The property of being stale or musty.

Must

Something that exhibits the property of being stale or musty.

Must

Fruit juice that will ferment or has fermented, usually from grapes.

Must

To be obliged; to be necessitated; - expressing either physical or moral necessity; as, a man must eat for nourishment; we must submit to the laws.

Must

To be morally required; to be necessary or essential to a certain quality, character, end, or result; as, he must reconsider the matter; he must have been insane.
Likewise must the deacons be grave.
Morover, he [a bishop] must have a good report of them which are without.

Must

The expressed juice of the grape, or other fruit, before fermentation.
No fermenting must fills . . . the deep vats.

Must

Mustiness.

Must

To make musty; to become musty.

Must

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.

Must

A necessary or essential thing;
Seat belts are an absolute must

Must

Grape juice before or during fermentation

Must

The quality of smelling or tasting old or stale or mouldy

Must

Highly recommended;
A book that is must reading

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