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verb
(past & past part. used; pres. part. using)
1.
Put into service; make work or employ for a particular purpose or for its inherent or natural purpose.  Synonyms: apply, employ, utilise, utilize.  "We only use Spanish at home" , "I can't use this tool" , "Apply a magnetic field here" , "This thinking was applied to many projects" , "How do you utilize this tool?" , "I apply this rule to get good results" , "Use the plastic bags to store the food" , "He doesn't know how to use a computer"
2.
Take or consume (regularly or habitually).  Synonym: habituate.
3.
Use up, consume fully.  Synonym: expend.
4.
Seek or achieve an end by using to one's advantage.  "The president's wife used her good connections"
5.
Avail oneself to.  Synonyms: apply, practice.  "Practice a religion" , "Use care when going down the stairs" , "Use your common sense" , "Practice non-violent resistance"
6.
Habitually do something (use only in the past tense).  "I used to get sick when I ate in that dining hall" , "They used to vacation in the Bahamas"
noun
1.
The act of using.  Synonyms: employment, exercise, usage, utilisation, utilization.  "Skilled in the utilization of computers"
2.
What something is used for.  Synonyms: function, purpose, role.  "Ballet is beautiful but what use is it?"
3.
A particular service.  "Patrons have their uses"
4.
(economics) the utilization of economic goods to satisfy needs or in manufacturing.  Synonyms: consumption, economic consumption, usance, use of goods and services.
5.
(psychology) an automatic pattern of behavior in reaction to a specific situation; may be inherited or acquired through frequent repetition.  Synonym: habit.  "She had a habit twirling the ends of her hair" , "Long use had hardened him to it"
6.
Exerting shrewd or devious influence especially for one's own advantage.  Synonym: manipulation.
7.
(law) the exercise of the legal right to enjoy the benefits of owning property.  Synonym: enjoyment.



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"Use" Quotes from Famous Books



... preparation for fanaticism. We only wait the coming of the fanatic—the madman who may lift a torch and hurl it into this magazine. The South is asleep. And when we don't sleep, we dance. There's no use fooling ourselves. We're dancing on the crust ...
— The Man in Gray • Thomas Dixon
... stakes driven into the mud—stakes that had never been there before. They seemed to form two rows, one on each side of his course, but as there was room enough for him to pass between them he swam straight ahead without stopping. His hands had no webs between the fingers, and were of little use in swimming, so he had folded them back against his body; but his big feet were working like the wheels of a twin-screw steamer, and he was forging along at a great rate. Suddenly, half-way down the lines of stakes, his breast touched the pan of a steel trap, and the jaws flew ...
— Forest Neighbors - Life Stories of Wild Animals • William Davenport Hulbert
... rope-ladder we use in the Golden Eagle. As you know, the only way to locate the cache is to strike a direct line down from the nose of the upturned face. That will bring us to the small cairn or pile of rocks that marks the ...
— The Boy Aviators in Africa • Captain Wilbur Lawton
... the colors are kept; "cased" defined. In garrison the colors, when not in use, are kept in the office or quarters of the colonel, and are escorted thereto and therefrom by the color guard. In camp the colors, when not in use, are in front of the colonel's tent. From reveille to retreat, ...
— Manual of Military Training - Second, Revised Edition • James A. Moss
... as she trotted out into a widening valley of the Old Crow. To maintain even that pace she had to use the spurs continually, for the white horse was deadly weary, and his head fell more and more. She decided to make a brief halt, at last, and in order to make a fire that would take the chill of the cold morning from her, she swung up to the edge of the woods. ...
— Riders of the Silences • John Frederick


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