using
使用,利用,采用,用
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Definitions
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used, us·ing.
- : to employ for some purpose; put into service; make use of: to use a knife.
- : to avail oneself of; apply to one's own purposes: to use the facilities.
- : to expend or consume in use: We have used the money provided.
- : to treat or behave toward: He did not use his employees with much consideration.
- : to take unfair advantage of; exploit: to use people to gain one's own ends.
- : to drink, smoke, or ingest habitually: to use drugs.
- : to habituate or accustom.
- : Archaic. to practice habitually or customarily; make a practice of.
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used, us·ing.
- : to be accustomed or customarily found: He used to go every day.
- : Archaic. to resort, stay, or dwell customarily.
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- : the act of employing, using, or putting into service: the use of tools.
- : the state of being employed or used.
- : an instance or way of employing or using something: proper use of the tool; the painter's use of color.
- : a way of being employed or used; a purpose for which something is used: He was of temporary use. The instrument has different uses.
- : the power, right, or privilege of employing or using something: to lose the use of the right eye; to be denied the use of a library card.
- : service or advantage in or for being employed or used; utility or usefulness: of no practical use.
- : help; profit; resulting good: What's the use of pursuing the matter?
- : occasion or need, as for something to be employed or used: Would you have any use for another calendar?
- : continued, habitual, or customary employment or practice; custom: to follow the prevailing use of such occasions.
- : Law. the enjoyment of property, as by the employment, occupation, or exercise of it.the benefit or profit of lands and tenements in the possession of another who simply holds them for the beneficiary.the equitable ownership of land to which the legal title is in another's name.
- : Liturgy. the distinctive form of ritual or of any liturgical observance used in a particular church, diocese, community, etc.
- : usual or customary experience.
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- : use up, to consume entirely.to exhaust of vigor or usefulness; finish: By the end of the war he felt used up and sick of life.
Phrases
- used to
- use one's head
- use up
- have no use for
- make use of
- no use
- put to good use
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
Its use to reprogram cells to cure cancer is but one of many examples of how it will touch our lives.
It also comes less than two weeks after Pfizer released efficacy data for its vaccine, and just days after releasing safety data — which suggests that fellow vaccine developer Moderna may apply for its emergency use authorization around Thanksgiving.
These minor steps — they really are — create tech-free spaces at home without appreciably limiting tech use.
Federal officials said they would announce a final department policy on forensic genetic genealogy use in 2020 but no such policy has been released so far.
These are the two things — computer use and home improvement projects — that a recent article in Optometry Times pointed to as the source of pandemic ocular woes.
But he, like many people using dating apps whatever their sexual identity, remains stoutly positive.
It is also important to avoid using the pope as part of a marketing strategy.
Using standard methods, the cost of printing DNA could run upwards of a billion dollars or more, depending on the strand.
“You are applying Western metrics to someone who is not using that metric against you,” referring to ISIS, Bolger said.
In 2007 he said he had discovered a cure for AIDS using natural herbs.
Roman Pane who accompanied Columbus on his second voyage alludes to another method of using the herb.
In the first case “I” stands for the person using it, and in the last case it means the organ of sight.
But what if I catch the fish by using a hired boat and a hired net, or by buying worms as bait from some one who has dug them?
Speaking with a certain dignity and using the language of the court, he said that they had not a moment to lose.
We find by research that smoking was the most general mode of using tobacco in England when first introduced.