USE meaning: Employing something for a purpose

We found 58 dictionaries that define the word use:

General (34 matching dictionaries)

use: Merriam-Webster.com
use, use: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
use: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
use: Collins English Dictionary
use: Vocabulary.com
USe, Use, use, use, use: Wordnik
use: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
use: Wiktionary
use: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
use: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
use: Infoplease Dictionary
USE: Dictionary.com
use (n.), use (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
use: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
USE, Use (disambiguation), Use (law), Use: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Use: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
use: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
use: Rhymezone
Use: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
use: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
use: Free Dictionary
use: Mnemonic Dictionary
use: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
use: Dictionary/thesaurus
use: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (2 matching dictionaries)

Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)
The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) (No longer online)

Business (9 matching dictionaries)

use: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
use: Law.com Dictionary
Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
use: Legal dictionary
BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)

USE: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
use: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)

Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
online medical dictionary (No longer online)
use: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)

USE: Acronym Finder
USE: Three Letter Words with definitions
AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
use: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)

use: Archaeology Wordsmith

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)

use, use, use: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
use: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)

Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ noun:  The act of using.
▸ noun:  (uncountable) The act of consuming alcohol or narcotics.
▸ noun:  (uncountable, followed by "of") Usefulness, benefit.
▸ noun:  A function; a purpose for which something may be employed.
▸ noun:  Occasion or need to employ; necessity.
▸ noun:  (obsolete, rare) Interest for lent money; premium paid for the use of something; usury.
▸ noun:  (archaic) Continued or repeated practice; usage; habit.
▸ noun:  (obsolete) Common occurrence; ordinary experience.
▸ noun:  (Christianity) A special form of a rite adopted for use in a particular context, often a diocese.
▸ noun:  (forging) 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.
▸ verb:  To utilize or employ.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To employ; to apply; to utilize.
▸ verb:  (transitive, often with up) To expend; to consume by employing.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To exploit.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To consume (alcohol, drugs, etc), especially regularly.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To consume a previously specified substance, especially a drug to which one is addicted.
▸ verb:  (transitive, with auxiliary "could") To benefit from; to be able to employ or stand.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To go by; to make use of and suggest or request that other people employ when referring to the subject.
▸ verb:  To accustom; to habituate. (Now common only in participial form. Uses the same pronunciation as the noun; see usage notes.)
▸ verb:  (reflexive, obsolete, with "to") To accustom oneself.
▸ verb:  (intransitive, archaic or literary except in past tense) To habitually do; to be wont to do. (Now chiefly in past-tense forms; see used to.)
▸ verb:  (dated) To behave toward; to act with regard to; to treat.
▸ verb:  (reflexive, obsolete) To behave, act, comport oneself.

Opposite:

discard, ignore, neglect, waste, abandon

Types:

recreational, medical, industrial, military, scientific, educational, environmental, agricultural, religious, spiritual, more...

Phrases:

use to, in use, of use, Land use, could use, more...

Adjectives:

general, common, little, extensive, widespread, effective, practical, proper, much, frequent, efficient

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