utility 的 2 个定义
plural u·til·i·ties.
- the state or quality of being useful; usefulness: This chemical has no utility as an agricultural fertilizer.
- something useful; a useful thing.
- a public service, as a telephone or electric-light system, a streetcar or railroad line, or the like.Compare public utility.
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- raised or kept as a potentially profitable product rather than for show or as pets: utility breeds; utility livestock.
- having or made for a number of useful or practical purposes rather than a single, specialized one: a utility knife.
- designed chiefly for use or service rather than beauty, high quality, or the like: a utility vehicle; utility furniture.
utility 近义词
serviceableness
更多utility例句
- The restaurant, which, according to the post, is only bringing in about 10 percent of the revenue it did before the pandemic, still has rent, payroll, and utilities to cover.
- Scores of utilities announced their own voluntary moratoriums.
- The utility giant announced that two of its employees lost their jobs over allegations they had taken bribes from the company, known as Bay Area Concrete Recycling.
- They also advise passing on REITs, telecom, and multi-utilities.
- In getting the patent, Cansino had to demonstrate that its candidate qualifies as an invention, meaning that it was able to show a new “inventive step” and “utility,” says Mercurio.
- But those weapons are of limited utility, especially during close-in fights.
- In essence, he “invented” the idea of a utility company, which would power the light bulbs and other devices people might plug in.
- According to the courts, the Internet is not considered a utility and therefore not subject to such regulations.
- In 2010, in what it says was the first such effort by a U.S. utility, APS placed panels on 125 homes in Flagstaff—for no charge.
- Much like Cosmo itself, the slideshow is pretty to look at but lacking in substance and utility.
- To place wit above sense is to place superfluity above utility.
- These Eskimos were very fond of kite-flying, for its own sake, without reference to utility!
- They have well established their utility in different parts of the kingdom, and any number would sell.
- It will therefore prove an investigation of greater utility to the public than anything yet introduced.
- There is no wood of any size to be procured among the islands, which is a great drawback upon its utility as a port.