Use (IPA: /ˈjus/, /ˈjuz/)
| Use (v. t.) |
The act of employing anything, or of applying it to one's service; the state of being so employed or applied; application; employment; conversion to some purpose; as, the use of a pen in writing; his machines are in general use. |
| Use (v. t.) |
Occasion or need to employ; necessity; as, to have no further use for a book. |
| Use (v. t.) |
Yielding of service; advantage derived; capability of being used; usefulness; utility. |
| Use (v. t.) |
Continued or repeated practice; customary employment; usage; custom; manner; habit. |
| Use (v. t.) |
Common occurrence; ordinary experience. |
| Use (v. t.) |
The special form of ritual adopted for use in any diocese; as, the Sarum, or Canterbury, use; the Hereford use; the York use; the Roman use; etc. |
| Use (v. t.) |
The premium paid for the possession and employment of borrowed money; interest; usury. |
| Use (v. t.) |
The benefit or profit of lands and tenements. Use imports a trust and confidence reposed in a man for the holding of lands. He to whose use or benefit the trust is intended shall enjoy the profits. An estate is granted and limited to A for the use of B. |
| Use (v. t.) |
A stab of iron welded to the side of a forging, as a shaft, near the end, and afterward drawn down, by hammering, so as to lengthen the forging. |
| Use (v. t.) |
To make use of; to convert to one's service; to avail one's self of; to employ; to put a purpose; as, to use a plow; to use a chair; to use time; to use flour for food; to use water for irrigation. |
| Use (v. t.) |
To behave toward; to act with regard to; to treat; as, to use a beast cruelly. |
| Use (v. t.) |
To practice customarily; to make a practice of; as, to use diligence in business. |
| Use (v. t.) |
To accustom; to habituate; to render familiar by practice; to inure; -- employed chiefly in the passive participle; as, men used to cold and hunger; soldiers used to hardships and danger. |
| Use (v. i.) |
To be wont or accustomed; to be in the habit or practice; as, he used to ride daily; -- now disused in the present tense, perhaps because of the similarity in sound, between "LFT use to, RHT" and "LFT used to." |
| Use (v. i.) |
To be accustomed to go; to frequent; to inhabit; to dwell; -- sometimes followed by of. |
| Use |
Use of a resource to perform a task |
| Use |
Family name |
| Use (Last Name / Surname) |
Use is the #137,327 most common last name / surname from the 2010 United States Census. The census reported that 122 people had that surname. |
| Example Sentence (Quote) " "As simple as that? You didn't use magic ?" Only common sense. It's a lot more reliable in the long run ."" - Discworld |
| Example Sentence (Quote) " #define NULL 0 /* silly thing is, we don't even use this */" - Larry Wall |
| Example Sentence (Quote) " (To Tanis) Oh. Well, then, perhaps I'm mistaken and there's no use for you at all." - Underworld: Evolution |
| Example Sentence (Quote) ". .color being enigmatic in itself.. . .then to be logical we cannot use it any other way than enigmatically,.." - Paul Gauguin |
| Example Sentence (Quote) "[...] But if I was to suggest so much as an egg and spoon race these days [the Wizards]'d use the spoon to eat the egg." - Discworld |
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