Sekirov Dictionary

use

/juːz/

verb 13
/juːs/ noun 10
forms 9
phrases 6

verb13

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to do a task or reach a goal with the help of something
- Use this knife to slice the bread.
- We can use this mathematical formula to solve the problem.
To utilize or employ.
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To habitually do; to be wont to do. (Now chiefly in past-tense forms; see used to.)
- I used to get things done.
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To accustom; to habituate. (Now common only in participial form. Uses the same pronunciation as the noun; see usage notes.)
- soldiers who are used to hardships and danger
- to use the soldiers to hardships and danger
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To expend; to consume by employing.
- I used the money they allotted me.
- We should use up most of the fuel.
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To benefit from; to be able to employ or stand.
- I could use a drink.
- My car could use a new coat of paint.
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To exploit.
- You never cared about me; you just used me!
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To consume (alcohol, drugs, etc), especially regularly.
- He uses cocaine.
- I have never used drugs.
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To consume a previously specified substance, especially a drug to which one is addicted.
- Richard began experimenting with cocaine last year; now he uses almost every day.
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To suggest or request that other people employ a specific set of gender pronouns when referring to the subject.
- I use they/them pronouns.
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(old-fashioned) To behave toward; to act with regard to; to treat.
- See who it is: and, now the battle’s ended, If friend or foe, let him be gently used. — 1591
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[with oneself] (no longer used) To accustom oneself.
- So that reading constantly, and thus using yourself to write, and enjoying besides the Benefit of a good Memory, every thing you heard or read, became your own […] — 1742
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[with oneself] (no longer used) To behave, act, comport oneself.
- They live together lovingly: For no Magistrate is either haughty or fearefull. Fathers they be called, and like fathers they use themselves. — 1551

use

/juːs/

noun10

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The act of using.
- The use of torture has been condemned by the United Nations.
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The act of consuming alcohol or narcotics.
- Heavy alcohol use (2.5 drinks per day or more) at any age is unhealthy and should be avoided. — 2018
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Usefulness, utility, benefit; purpose, point.
- What's the use of a law that nobody follows?
- There's no use in spewing a million words about it; whatever will be, will be.
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A function; a purpose for which something may be employed.
- This tool has many uses.
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Occasion or need to employ; necessity.
- I have no further use for these textbooks, but we may have use for all these other things later.
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A special form of a rite adopted for use in a particular context, often a diocese.
- From henceforth all the whole realm shall have but one use. — 1549
A slab of iron welded to the side of a forging, such as a shaft, near the end, and afterward drawn down, by hammering, so as to lengthen the forging.
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(no longer used) Continued or repeated practice; usage; habit.
- How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable, / Seem to me all the uses of this world! — 1599
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(no longer used, rare) Interest for lent money; premium paid for the use of something; usury.
- DON PEDRO. Come, lady, come; you have lost the heart of Signior Benedick. BEATRICE. Indeed, my lord, he lent it me awhile; and I gave him use for it, a double heart for a single one: [...] — 1598
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(no longer used) Common occurrence; ordinary experience.
- O Caesar! these things are beyond all use. — 1599

forms

us'd · used · usedest · usedst · usen · using · uses · useth · usest

Phrases with use

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