
usage | usage: n. 1 use, custom, habit, practice, routine, convention, form, tradition: British usage reflects decreasing use of the subjunctive mood. 2 treatment, use, management, handling, operation, manipulation: It would appear that the car has been subjected to some rough usage.
use | use: v. 1 employ, make use of, put into practice or operation, practise, utilize, exercise, bring into play, have recourse to, resort to, put or press into service, put to use, avail (oneself) of; say, utter, speak: If you use a hammer you might damage the surface. Why do you have to use bad language? 2 capitalize on, turn to account, profit by or from, exploit, utilize, make use of, take advantage of, manipulate, manoeuvre, handle, abuse, misuse, play, work: She used her smile to lure men on. Dorothy never forgave Conrad for the way he used her and her contacts to get his job. 3 consume, eat, drink, smoke, take, partake of, ingest, inject, Slang shoot (up): He has never used a habit-forming substance. 4 consume, buy, purchase, employ, utilize: Which kind of detergent do you use? 5 use up. consume, exhaust, expend, run through, run out of, deplete; waste, squander, fritter away, pour down the drain, throw away: He used up all the toothpaste. She used up her entire inheritance gambling. --n. 6 usage, application, employment, utilization; using: The use of unleaded fuel is recommended. 7 function, utility, application; advantage, benefit, good, service, interest, profit, avail: What''s the use of a radio that doesn''t work? 8 wear (and tear), utilization, treatment, usage, handling: Long use has worn the workbench smooth. 9 usability, usefulness, utility, utilization, usage, function, functioning, service(s), serviceability, power: He lost the use of his right arm in an accident at work. 10 licence, permission, permit, privilege: We paid a high fee for the use of this parking space. 11 consumption, purchases, buying, acquisition: The use of cigarettes has diminished in the last decade. 12 advantage, purpose, point, end, object, reason, basis, ground: I have tried to help him overcome his habit, but what''s the use? Many are the uses of adversity. 13 demand, need, necessity, urgency, exigency: The world has as much use for art as for engineering. 14 See usage, 1, above. 15 have no use for. execrate, detest, abhor, hate, despise, scorn, contemn, spurn, reject, dislike: We have no use for cowards in this regiment.
used | used: adj. 1 second-hand, cast-off, old, worn, Euphemistic pre-owned, Colloq hand-me-down, Brit reach-me-down: You''re better off buying a good used car, since new ones depreciate so quickly. 2 utilized, employed, occupied; in use: We slept in a rarely used room. 3 used to. accustomed to, habituated to, acclimatized or acclimated to, adapted to, hardened or toughened or inured to or against, tempered to, tolerant of; familiar or acquainted with: After all those years, Amanda was used to Bill''s shouting.
useful | useful: adj. utilitarian, functional, serviceable, practical, usable, of use, beneficial, salutary, advantageous, expedient, profitable, valuable, gainful, helpful, fruitful, productive, effective, worthwhile: Does this knob serve any useful purpose? We had some very useful conversations with the bank manager.
usefulness | usefulness: n. utility, applicability, practicability, purpose, purposefulness, point, practicality, benefit, advantage, expediency, profit, profitability, value, gain, help, fruitfulness, effectiveness, worth: I never could see the usefulness of all the forms one has to fill in.
useless | useless: adj. 1 ineffective, ineffectual, unserviceable, impractical, impracticable, unpractical, unavailing, vain, pointless, purposeless, idle, futile, unproductive, unsuccessful, impotent, effete, sterile, barren, abortive, unusable, bootless, worthless, Rare inutile: The treatment that she tried was quite useless. 2 inefficient, incompetent, unproductive, ineffectual, ineffective, hopeless, inept: My dachshund has proved totally useless as a watchdog.
user | user: n. 1 consumer, buyer, purchaser, owner; operator: Users of the equipment report excellent results. 2 alcohol or drug or narcotic addict: The police have been interviewing users in order to obtain more information about the dealers.
user-friendly | user-friendly: adj. simple, practicable, usable, explicit, accommodating, understandable: The system is designed to be particularly user-friendly.
usual | usual: adj. same, customary, habitual, accustomed, familiar, well-known, common, everyday, established, traditional, set, time-honoured, old, conventional, workaday, stock, wonted, regular, ordinary, normal, expected, routine, typical, run-of-the-mill, stereotypic(al), hackneyed, trite, prosaic, worn out, shop-worn, predictable, unexceptional, unoriginal, unremarkable, unimaginative: The usual answer I get is ''Why?'' I missed my usual train this morning. They still sing the usual drinking songs.
usually | usually: adv. customarily, as a rule, generally (speaking), most of the time, for the most part, most often, mostly, almost always, inveterately, on the whole, normally, commonly, regularly, predominantly, chiefly, all things considered, in the main, mainly, by and large, as usual, Colloq as per usual: I usually walk home from the office. Johnson usually interviews applicants in the morning.
