use

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /juːs/    美 /jus/|[jɪu̯s]|/jʉːs/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The act of using. countable,uncountable
    — The use of torture has been condemned by the United Nations.
  2. The act of consuming alcohol or narcotics. uncountable
    — Heavy alcohol use (2.5 drinks per day or more) at any age is unhealthy and should be avoided.
  3. Usefulness, benefit. uncountable
    — What's the use of a law that nobody follows?
  4. A function; a purpose for which something may be employed. countable,uncountable
    — This tool has many uses.
  5. Occasion or need to employ; necessity. countable,uncountable
    — I have no further use for these textbooks.
  6. Interest for lent money; premium paid for the use of something; usury. countable,obsolete,rare,uncountable
    — DON PEDRO. Come, lady, come; you have lost the heart of Signior Benedick. BEATRICE. Indeed, my lord, he lent it me awhile; and I gave him use for it, a double heart for a single one: [...]
  7. Continued or repeated practice; usage; habit. archaic,countable,uncountable
    — Let later age that noble vse enuie,
  8. Common occurrence; ordinary experience. countable,obsolete,uncountable
    — O Caesar! these things are beyond all use.
  9. A special form of a rite adopted for use in a particular context, often a diocese. countable,uncountable
    — the Sarum, or Canterbury, use; the York use; the Ordinariate use
  10. 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. countable,uncountable
动词 v.
  1. To utilize or employ.; To employ; to apply; to utilize. transitive
    — Use this knife to slice the bread.
  2. To utilize or employ.; To expend; to consume by employing. often,transitive,with-up
    — I used the money they allotted me.
  3. To utilize or employ.; To exploit. transitive
    — You never cared about me; you just used me!
  4. To utilize or employ.; To consume (alcohol, drugs, etc), especially regularly. transitive
    — He uses cocaine.
  5. To utilize or employ.; To consume a previously specified substance, especially a drug to which one is addicted. intransitive
    — Richard began experimenting with cocaine last year; now he uses almost every day.
  6. To utilize or employ.; To benefit from; to be able to employ or stand. transitive
    — I could use a drink.
  7. To utilize or employ.; To suggest or request that other people employ a specific set of gender pronouns when referring to the subject. transitive
    — I use they/them pronouns.
    I suggest or request that others use the pronouns they/them when referring to me.
  8. To accustom; to habituate. (Now common only in participial form. Uses the same pronunciation as the noun; see usage notes.)
    — soldiers who are used to hardships and danger
  9. To accustom; to habituate. (Now common only in participial form. Uses the same pronunciation as the noun; see usage notes.); To accustom oneself. obsolete,reflexive
    — It is not without some difficulty, that a man born in society can form an idea of such savages, and their condition; and unless he has used himself to abstract thinking, he can hardly represent to himself such a state of simplicity, in which man can have so few desires, and no appetites roving beyond the immediate call of untaught nature […]
  10. To habitually do; to be wont to do. (Now chiefly in past-tense forms; see used to.) intransitive
    — I used to get things done.
  11. To behave toward; to act with regard to; to treat. dated
    — to use an animal cruelly
  12. To behave, act, comport oneself. obsolete,reflexive
    — 1551, Thomas More, Utopia, London: B. Alsop & T. Fawcet, 1639, “Of Bond-men, Sicke persons, Wedlocke, and divers other matters,” page 231, They live together lovingly: For no Magistrate is either haughty or fearefull. Fathers they be called, and like fathers they use themselves.

词形变化

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词汇关系

下位词
fair use misuse reuse underuse
衍生词
alcohol use disorder as much use as a chocolate fireguard as much use as a chocolate teapot caffeine use disorder can I use your phone cestuy que use come in use compassionate use do you need to use the bathroom drug use dual-use dual-use research of concern free use go out of use have no use for hyper-use ill-use in-use in use it's no use land-use land use make use meanwhile use mixed-use neither use nor ornament non-use no use of any use of some use of use old use out of use overuse point of use private-use character put to good use put to use shared use path single-use terms of use therapeutic use exemption there's no use there's no use crying over spilt milk time-of-check to time-of-use time-of-use meter time-of-use rates time-use time-use research time-use survey tolerated use underuse use and wont use case useless usement use tax use value value in use what's the use disuse misuse reuse useful abuse could use usability usable usage use a sledgehammer to crack a nut use-by date used used to usee use in anger use it use it or lose it use one's coconut use one's head use one's loaf use one's noggin user use the bathroom use the master's tools to dismantle the master's house use the potty use the restroom use the toilet use the user use the washroom use up use your words

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *oissos
Latin ūsus
Old French usbor.
Middle English use
English use
Noun from Middle English use, from Old French us, from Latin ūsus (“use, custom, skill, habit”), from past participle stem of ūtor (“use”). Displaced native Middle English note (“use”) (see note) from Old English notu; Middle English nutte (“use”) from Old English nytt; as well as Old English fricu and Old English sidu.
Verb from Middle English usen, from Old French user (“use, employ, practice”), from Medieval Latin usare (“use”), frequentative form of past participle stem of Latin uti (“to use”). Displaced native Middle English noten, nutten (“to use”) (from Old English notian, nēotan, nyttian) and Middle English brouken, bruken (“to use, enjoy”) (from Old English brūcan).
词源 2
Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *oissos
Latin ūsus
Old French usbor.
Middle English use
English use
Noun from Middle English use, from Old French us, from Latin ūsus (“use, custom, skill, habit”), from past participle stem of ūtor (“use”). Displaced native Middle English note (“use”) (see note) from Old English notu; Middle English nutte (“use”) from Old English nytt; as well as Old English fricu and Old English sidu.
Verb from Middle English usen, from Old French user (“use, employ, practice”), from Medieval Latin usare (“use”), frequentative form of past participle stem of Latin uti (“to use”). Displaced native Middle English noten, nutten (“to use”) (from Old English notian, nēotan, nyttian) and Middle English brouken, bruken (“to use, enjoy”) (from Old English brūcan).
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