If you want something, you feel a desire or a need for it.

You can say that you want to say something to indicate that you are about to say it.

You use want in questions as a way of making an offer or inviting someone to do something.

If you say to someone that you want something, or ask them if they want to do it, you are firmly telling them what you want or what you want them to do.

If you say that something wants doing, you think that it needs to be done.

If you tell someone that they want to do a particular thing, you are advising them to do it.

If someone is wanted by the police, the police are searching for them because they are thought to have committed a crime.

If you want someone, you have a great desire to have sex with them.

If a child is wanted, its mother or another person loves it and is willing to look after it.

If someone wants you in a particular place or role, they desire you to be in that place or role.

A want of something is a lack of it.

Want is the state of being extremely poor.

Your wants are the things that you want.

If you do something for want of something else, you do it because the other thing is not available or not possible.

You say if you want when you are making or agreeing to an offer or suggestion in a casual way.

People sometimes say 'I don't want to be rude', for example, or 'without wanting to be rude' as a way of apologizing or warning you when they are going to say something which might upset, annoy, or worry you.

If you say to someone 'what do you want?', you are asking them in a rather rude or angry way why they have come to the place where you are or why they want to speak to you.