use | Lernwerd

Forms

1.The act of using.
- The use of torture has been condemned by the United Nations.
2.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.
3.Usefulness, utility, benefit; purpose, point.
- 'Tis use alone that sanctifies expense.
- What's the use of a law that nobody follows?
- God made two great lights, great for their use / To man.
4.A function; a purpose for which something may be employed.
- This tool has many uses.

1.To utilize or employ.
- Use this knife to slice the bread.
- I used the money they allotted me.
- We should use up most of the fuel.
2.To habitually do; to be wont to do. (Now chiefly in past-tense forms; see used to.)
- Such smokes use ever to go before the fire.
- Use hospitality one to another without grudging.
- I do not use to let my wife be acquainted with the secret affairs of my state; they are not within a woman’s province.
3.To accustom; to habituate. (Now common only in participial form. Uses the same pronunciation as the noun; see usage notes.)
- We are not long in using ourselves to changes in life.
- The family troubles, she thought, were easier for every one than for her, even for poor dear mamma, because she had always used herself to not enjoying.

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Etymology tree

Proto-Italic *oissos

Latin ūsus

Old French usbor.

Middle English use

English use