Word Meaning

Meaning of "use" and the crossword clue

- ... it or lose it
- Application
- Apply
- Avail oneself of
- Avail oneself of yews, did you say?
- Bring into play
- Consume
- Deplete, ... up
- Employ
- Employ us before fourth of June
- Even Aussies make the most of economic consumption
- Exercise
- Exercise with purpose
- Expend, ... up
- Exploit
- Exploit function
- Exploit some incubuses?
- Exploit unfairly
- Function
- Function held in museum
- Function of American egghead
- Help, be of ...
- Louise had no oil to exploit
- Manipulate
- Mum left museum function
- Operation
- Practicality
- Purpose
- Pursue alternate operation
- Pursue evenly for a purpose
- Refuse to let the umpire out for practice
- Refused to hold function
- Take advantage of
- Take advantage of poor Sue
- Think, ... your head
- Unusual starting exploit
- Utilisation
- Utilise
- The act of employing anything, or of applying it to one's service; the state of being so employed or applied; application; employment; conversion to some purpose; as, the use of a pen in writing; his machines are in general use.
- Occasion or need to employ; necessity; as, to have no further use for a book.
- Yielding of service; advantage derived; capability of being used; usefulness; utility.
- Continued or repeated practice; customary employment; usage; custom; manner; habit.
- Common occurrence; ordinary experience.
- The special form of ritual adopted for use in any diocese; as, the Sarum, or Canterbury, use; the Hereford use; the York use; the Roman use; etc.
- The premium paid for the possession and employment of borrowed money; interest; usury.
- The benefit or profit of lands and tenements. Use imports a trust and confidence reposed in a man for the holding of lands. He to whose use or benefit the trust is intended shall enjoy the profits. An estate is granted and limited to A for the use of B.
- A stab of iron welded to the side of a forging, as a shaft, near the end, and afterward drawn down, by hammering, so as to lengthen the forging.
- To make use of; to convert to one's service; to avail one's self of; to employ; to put a purpose; as, to use a plow; to use a chair; to use time; to use flour for food; to use water for irrigation.
- To behave toward; to act with regard to; to treat; as, to use a beast cruelly.
- To practice customarily; to make a practice of; as, to use diligence in business.
- To accustom; to habituate; to render familiar by practice; to inure; -- employed chiefly in the passive participle; as, men used to cold and hunger; soldiers used to hardships and danger.
- To be wont or accustomed; to be in the habit or practice; as, he used to ride daily; -- now disused in the present tense, perhaps because of the similarity in sound, between "use to," and "used to."
- To be accustomed to go; to frequent; to inhabit; to dwell; -- sometimes followed by of.