Look up: lack

1. lack
   [n] - the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable
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2. Lack
   Lack noun [ Middle English lak ; confer Dutch lak slander, laken to blame, Old High German lahan , Anglo-Saxon leán .] 1. Blame; cause of blame; fault; crime; offense. [ Obsolete] Chaucer. 2....
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3. Lack
   Lack transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Lacked ; present participle & verbal noun Lacking .] 1. To blame; to find fault with. [ Obsolete] « Love them and lakke...
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4. Lack
   Lack intransitive verb 1. To be wanting; often, impersonally, with of , meaning, to be less than, short, not quite, etc. « What hour now ? I think it lacks of twelve.» Shak. « Peradventure there shall
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5. Lack
   Lack interj. [ Confer Alack .] Exclamation of regret or surprise. [ Prov. Eng.] Cowper.
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6. lack
   1. Blame; cause of blame; fault; crime; offense. ... 2. Deficiency; want; need; destitution; failure; as, a lack of sufficient food. 'She swooneth now and now for lakke of blood.' (Chaucer) 'Let his lack of years be no impediment.' (Shak) ... Origin: OE. Lak; cf. D. Lak slander, laken to blame, OHG....
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7. Lack
   • (v. i.) To be in want. • (v. t.) To be without or destitute of; to want; to need. • (v. i.) To be wanting; often, impersonally, with of, meaning, to be less than, short, not quite, etc. • (n.) Deficiency; want; need; destitution; failure; as, a lack of sufficient food. • (...
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8. lack
   absence, deficiency
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9. Lack
   (manque) `Lack` (in French, manque), is, in Lacan`s psychoanalytic philosophy, always related to desire. In his seminar Le transfert (1960-61) he states that lack is what causes desire to arise. However, `lack` first designated a lack of being: what is desired is being itself. &...
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