Word Finder - uses

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The act of using.

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The use of torture has been condemned by the United Nations.

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The act of consuming alcohol or narcotics.

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(followed by "of") Usefulness, benefit.

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What's the use of a law that nobody follows?

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A function; a purpose for which something may be employed.

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This tool has many uses.

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Occasion or need to employ; necessity.

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I have no further use for these textbooks.

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Interest for lent money; premium paid for the use of something; usury.

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Continued or repeated practice; usage; habit.

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Common occurrence; ordinary experience.

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The special form of ritual adopted for use in any diocese.

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the Sarum, or Canterbury, use; the Hereford use; the York use; the Roman use; etc.

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(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.

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To utilize or employ.

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To accustom; to habituate. (Now common only in participial form. Uses the same pronunciation as the noun; see usage notes.)

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soldiers who are used to hardships and danger

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(except in past tense) To habitually do; to be wont to do. (Now chiefly in past-tense forms; see used to.)

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I used to get things done.

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To behave toward; to act with regard to; to treat.

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to use an animal cruelly

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To behave, act, comport oneself.

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A form of equitable ownership peculiar to English law, by which one person enjoys the profits of lands, etc. whose legal title is vested in another in trust.

You will see from her letter that she uses many pronouns correctly.

Nearly everyone uses ball point pens.

I recently gained access to this database that the company's owner uses.

Huygens (Descriptio automati planetarii, 1703) uses the simple continued fraction for the purpose of approximation when designing the toothed wheels of his Planetarium.

She had been familiar with most herbs and their uses since she was a child, due to her father's business, but she had never actually seen the herbs growing.

Eusebius in his Onomasticon uses it as a central point from which the distances of other towns are measured.

The Hyoid apparatus is, in its detail, subject to many variations in accord with the very diverse uses to which the tongue of birds is III.

Its viscid character, and its non-liability to dry and harden by exposure to air, also fit it for various other uses, such as lubrication, &c., whilst its peculiar physical characters, enabling it to blend with either aqueous or oily matters under certain circumstances, render it a useful ingredient in a large number of products of varied kinds.

He uses them for approximations.

Good looking, except he uses Fran Tarkenton's barber.

But this genealogy, though it is attributed to Hesiod, is apparently post-Homeric; and it is clear that the Ionian name had independent and varied uses and meanings in very early times.

He uses "radicatum" for power (for root, power, exponent, his words are radix, radicatum, index).

As it uses the Baudot telegraph alphabet it has an advantage in theory over the Wheatstone using the Morse alphabet in regard to the speed that can be obtained on a long telegraph line in the ratio of eight to five, and this theoretical advantage is more or less realized in practice.

Leo, the saint's favourite disciple and companion on Mount Alverno at the time, which describes the circumstances of the stigmatization; Elias of Cortona, the acting superior, wrote on the day after his death a circular letter wherein he uses language clearly implying that he had himself seen the Stigmata, and there is a considerable amount of contemporary authentic second hand evidence.

Although Polybius and Dionysius of Halicarnassus frequently find fault with him, the first uses him as his chief authority for the Second Punic War.

The first "detectives" appointed numbered only a dozen, three inspectors and nine sergeants, to whom, however, six constables were shortly added as "auxiliaries," but the number was gradually enlarged as the manifest uses of the system became more and more obvious.

But the influence of the court of Rome has gradually gone much beyond this, and has superseded almost all the local "uses."

But side by side with this language of everyday life a purer form of Dutch has continued to exist and find its uses under certain conditions.

But at times he uses language that almost compels one to attribute to him the popular view of conscience as passing its judgments with unerring certainty on individual acts.

The confiscation of ecclesiastical property at the time of the Reformation affected many of the trusts of the companies; and they were compelled to make returns of their property devoted to religious uses, and to pay over the rents to the crown.

Papias uses the term "the Elders," or Fathers of the Christian community, to describe the original witnesses to Christ's teaching, i.e.

The uses to which all the parts and products of the bamboo are applied in Oriental countries are almost endless.

It is, however, the stem of the bamboo which is applied to the greatest variety of uses.

It may be in this wide charismatic sense that Paul uses the term in 1 Cor.

He is at his best in the adaptation of the symbolism of old legend to modern uses.

He also published Sermons for the New Life (1858); Christ and his Salvation (1864); Work and Play (1864); Moral Uses of Dark Things (1868); Women's Suffrage, the Reform against Nature (1869); Sermons on Living Subjects (1872); and Forgiveness and Law (1874).

Theocritus uses it so frequently in the Bucolics that it has become a mannerism.

It is true that, as a matter of fact, the earliest uses of the word (the verb /xXoa04Eiv occurs in Herodotus and Thucydides) imply the idea of the pursuit of knowledge; but the distinction between the aogios, or wise man, and the 4nXoaoa50s, or lover of wisdom, appears first in the Platonic writings, and lends itself naturally to the so-called Socratic irony.

The arrangement of the building and floor framings is in a great measure governed by the architectural effect sought and by the arrangement and proper planning of the interior according to the intended uses; the positions of columns, girders and floor beams are usually the result of particular requirements, and unless complicated and expensive framing is to be expected the distance between columns must be kept within the limits of simple girder construction.

In the Michael Crichton novel Timeline, one of the main characters uses the Greek fire.

I know the list of nefarious uses of the Internet—but on balance, we are building it for good purposes.

Richard Hooker, again with traces of Aquinas, uses the conception as a weapon against Puritanism, with its aggressive positivism of scriptural precept.

He is a most difficult writer; different readers understand him differently; and he uses in the earlier parts of his Critique of Pure Reason much of the language of intuitionalism.

The applications of anthropogeography to human uses give rise to political and commercial geography, in the elucidation of which all the earlier departments or stages have to be considered, together with historical and other purely human conditions.

It may be presumed that he took his degree, as he uses the title of "Syr" in his translation of Sallust, and in his will he is called doctor of divinity.

What does distinguish Hebrew prophecy from all others is that the genius of a few members of the profession wrested this vulgar but powerful instrument from baser uses, and by wielding it in the interest of a high morality rendered a service of incalculable value to humanity.

In times of scarcity the Norse peasant-farmer uses the sweetish inner bark, beaten in a mortar and ground in his primitive mill with oats or barley, to eke out a scanty supply of meal, the mixture yielding a tolerably palatable though somewhat resinous substitute for his ordinary flad-brod.

Vessels for culinary, table, and luxurious uses show an infinite variety of form and purpose.

The prince uses his power to promote religion, and everything prospers in his hands.

Tacitus uses the name Suebi in a far wider sense than that defined above.

He uses the vernacular with an economy which no other English writer has rivalled.

Causality is one of the " categories " which out mind uses in building up orderly experience.

They were to be applied to pious uses.

This fact is overshadowed in England, partly by the habitual use of the word "gentleman" (q.v.) in various secondary uses, partly by the prevalent confusion between ai dg retry.

The word "gentleman" has lost its original meaning in a variety of other uses, while the word "nobleman" has come to be confined to members of the peerage and a few of their immediate descendants.

From the text which Philo uses, it is probable that the translation had been transmitted in writing; and his legend probably fixes the date of the commencement of the undertaking for the reign of Ptolemy Lagus.

The building, of beautiful classical design, and admirably adapted to its uses, was completed in 1916.

It is not only the conditions of growth, but the uses to which the different crops are put, that have to be considered in the case of rotation.

Where not exposed to the weather the wood is probably as lasting as that of the pine, but, not being so resinous, appears less adapted for out-door uses.

Thus as life is transcendent and yet immanent in body, and mind in brain, and both utilize their organs, so God, transcendent and immanent, uses the course of nature for His own ends; and the emergence both of life and mind in that course of nature evidences such a divine initiative as is assumed in the recognition of the possibility of miracles.