Results for use
Definitions of use:
part of speech: past tense, past participle
Used.
part of speech: noun
Act of using or putting to a purpose: convenience: employment: need: advantage: practice: custom.
part of speech: noun
State of being employed to any purpose; occasion or need to employ; the quality which makes a thing proper for a purpose; benefit; advantage; habit; in law, profit; benefit.
part of speech: noun
The act of employing something; state of being employed; application of anything to a particular purpose; employment; custom or practice; practical worth; treatment; reason for employing.
part of speech: verb
To employ; to apply or handle for some purpose; to consume to accustom; to render familiar by practice; to be accustomed; to be wont.
part of speech: verb transitive
To employ; to apply to a special purpose; for a time, as property; to treat; to make accustomed: chiefly in the passive voice and followed by to; as, the dog is used to kind treatment.
part of speech: verb transitive
To put to some purpose: to avail one's self of: to habituate: to treat or behave toward.
part of speech: noun
part of speech: present participle
Using.
part of speech: verb intransitive
To be accustomed: only in past; as, they used to go to the mountains.
part of speech: noun
part of speech: verb intransitive
To be accustomed.
Usage examples for use:
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What means does it use
"Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism", F. V. N. Painter -
" I shall have to use it at home.
"Grace Harlowe's Senior Year at High School or The Parting of the Ways", Jessie Graham Flower -
" I want you to be a good woman, and I want you to be all the use you can," he said.
"A Country Doctor and Selected Stories and Sketches", Sarah Orne Jewett -
" I don't believe it is of any use to look here," he said.
"Whosoever Shall Offend", F. Marion Crawford