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Using   /jˈuzɪŋ/   Listen
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Use  v. t.  (past & past part. used; pres. part. using)  
1.
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. "Launcelot Gobbo, use your legs." "Some other means I have which may be used."
2.
To behave toward; to act with regard to; to treat; as, to use a beast cruelly. "I will use him well." "How wouldst thou use me now?" "Cato has used me ill."
3.
To practice customarily; to make a practice of; as, to use diligence in business. "Use hospitality one to another."
4.
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. "I am so used in the fire to blow." "Thou with thy compeers, Used to the yoke, draw'st his triumphant wheels."
To use one's self, to behave. (Obs.) "Pray, forgive me, if I have used myself unmannerly."
To use up.
(a)
To consume or exhaust by using; to leave nothing of; as, to use up the supplies.
(b)
To exhaust; to tire out; to leave no capacity of force or use in; to overthrow; as, he was used up by fatigue. (Colloq.)
Synonyms: Employ. Use, Employ. We use a thing, or make use of it, when we derive from it some enjoyment or service. We employ it when we turn that service into a particular channel. We use words to express our general meaning; we employ certain technical terms in reference to a given subject. To make use of, implies passivity in the thing; as, to make use of a pen; and hence there is often a material difference between the two words when applied to persons. To speak of "making use of another" generally implies a degrading idea, as if we had used him as a tool; while employ has no such sense. A confidential friend is employed to negotiate; an inferior agent is made use of on an intrigue. "I would, my son, that thou wouldst use the power Which thy discretion gives thee, to control And manage all." "To study nature will thy time employ: Knowledge and innocence are perfect joy."


Use  v. i.  
1.
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 "use to," and "used to." "They use to place him that shall be their captain on a stone." "Fears use to be represented in an imaginary." "Thus we use to say, it is the room that smokes, when indeed it is the fire in the room." "Now Moses used to take the tent and to pitch it without the camp."
2.
To be accustomed to go; to frequent; to inhabit; to dwell; sometimes followed by of. (Obs.) "Where never foot did use." "He useth every day to a merchant's house." "Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades, and wanton winds, and gushing brooks."





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"Using" Quotes from Famous Books



... must have seen the wake of our periscope, for he turned towards us. Simultaneously Alten, from the conning tower (I was using the other periscope in the control room), ordered the boat to sixty feet, and put the helm ...
— The Diary of a U-boat Commander • Anon
... beautiful and bright metal—which rapidly changes in the air, and, as you know, rapidly changes in water. I will put a piece on the water, and you see it burns beautifully, making a floating lamp, using the water in the place of air. Again, if we take a few iron filings or turnings, and put them in water, we find that they likewise undergo an alteration. They do not change so much as this potassium does, but they change somewhat in the same way; ...
— The Chemical History Of A Candle • Michael Faraday
... Condy; 'that's one good thing.' Then colouring up a good deal, he tells Jason of the memorandum of the five hundred a-year jointure he had settled upon my lady; at which Jason was indeed mad, and said a great deal in very high words, that it was using a gentleman who had the management of his affairs, and was, moreover, his principal creditor, extremely ill to do such a thing without consulting him, and against his knowledge and consent. To all which Sir Condy had nothing to reply, but that, upon his conscience, it was in a hurry and without a ...
— Castle Rackrent • Maria Edgeworth
... it—actually got the dog's thoughts of pleasure at finding such a wonderful new friend with such a nose-appealing effluvium. Hanlon then tried to see if he could get into the deeper parts of the dog's mind, and using what knowledge of the technique he had deduced in his previous though unsuccessful attempts with humans, found after many more anxious minutes he could follow the thought-and-memory tracks back and back until the dog's whole mind was ...
— Man of Many Minds • E. Everett Evans
... had come on board to get some lime-juice, the best thing to prevent scurvy. He said that he had bought a good supply of what was called lime-juice; but, when the surgeon examined it, which he did when, in spite of the men using it, the scurvy appeared among them, he found that it was some common acid, of no use whatever. How horribly wicked were the manufacturers who could thus, in their greed for grain, knowingly destroy the health and lives of seamen who depended on their ...
— Ben Hadden - or, Do Right Whatever Comes Of It • W.H.G. Kingston


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