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Using   /jˈuzɪŋ/   Listen
Using

noun
1.
An act that exploits or victimizes someone (treats them unfairly).  Synonyms: exploitation, victimisation, victimization.  "Paying Blacks less and charging them more is a form of victimization"


Use

verb
(past & past part. used; pres. part. using)
1.
Put into service; make work or employ for a particular purpose or for its inherent or natural purpose.  Synonyms: apply, employ, utilise, utilize.  "We only use Spanish at home" , "I can't use this tool" , "Apply a magnetic field here" , "This thinking was applied to many projects" , "How do you utilize this tool?" , "I apply this rule to get good results" , "Use the plastic bags to store the food" , "He doesn't know how to use a computer"
2.
Take or consume (regularly or habitually).  Synonym: habituate.
3.
Use up, consume fully.  Synonym: expend.
4.
Seek or achieve an end by using to one's advantage.  "The president's wife used her good connections"
5.
Avail oneself to.  Synonyms: apply, practice.  "Practice a religion" , "Use care when going down the stairs" , "Use your common sense" , "Practice non-violent resistance"
6.
Habitually do something (use only in the past tense).  "I used to get sick when I ate in that dining hall" , "They used to vacation in the Bahamas"



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"Using" Quotes from Famous Books



... the romantic idea of using some makeshift name until he had made his fortune, and deciding against it. A false name might mean future embarrassment, and he was so far from home that his father would never hear of him anyway. But ...
— Cow-Country • B. M. Bower
... the secret of opening the cave, and that all the treasure was at his sole disposal. He put as much gold into his saddle-bag as his horse could carry, and returned to town. Some years later he carried his son to the cave and taught him the secret, which descended to his posterity, who, using their good- fortune with moderation, lived ...
— The Junior Classics, V5 • Edited by William Patten
... saddle of his shivering horse and drew off the poncho, which he had spread above the animal instead of using it himself. He was wet to the bone. With apology he cast the waterproof over Molly's shoulders, since she now had discarded her blankets. He led the way, his horse ...
— The Covered Wagon • Emerson Hough
... of the dimensions stated, which cost, about $1800 gold, is capable of desiccating daily ten tons of peat with 20 per cent. of water, using thereby 2000 cubic feet of air of a temperature of 212 deg. F. When the air is heated by a fire kept up exclusively for that purpose, 10 per cent. of the dried peat, or its equivalent, is consumed in the operation. At the Alexis Smelting Works, near Lingen, in ...
— Peat and its Uses as Fertilizer and Fuel • Samuel William Johnson
... our most nearly universal solecism. "I cannot see the sun or the moon." This means that I am unable to see one of them, though I may see the other. By using nor, I affirm the invisibility of both, which is what I wanted to do. If a man is not white or black he may nevertheless be a Negro or a Caucasian; but if he is not white nor black he belongs to ...
— Write It Right - A Little Blacklist of Literary Faults • Ambrose Bierce


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