Definitions for USES

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Spelling: [verb yooz or for pt for mof 9, yoost; noun yoos]

IPA: /verb yuz or for pt for mof 9, yust; noun yus/

Uses is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 4 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 5 points.

You can make 18 anagrams from letters in USES (essu).

Definitions for USES

noun

1. the act of employing, using, or putting into service:
2. the state of being employed or used.
3. an instance or way of employing or using something:
4. a way of being employed or used; a purpose for which something is used:
5. the power, right, or privilege of employing or using something:
6. service or advantage in or for being employed or used; utility or usefulness:
7. help; profit; resulting good:
8. occasion or need, as for something to be employed or used:
9. continued, habitual, or customary employment or practice; custom:
10. Law. the enjoyment of property, as by the employment, occupation, or exercise of it. the benefit or profit of lands and tenements in the possession of another who simply holds them for the beneficiary. the equitable ownership of land to which the legal title is in another's name.
11. Liturgy. the distinctive form of ritual or of any liturgical observance used in a particular church, diocese, community, etc.
12. usual or customary experience.

Idioms

1. have no use for, to have no occasion or need for: to refuse to tolerate; discount: to have a distaste for; dislike:
2. make use of, to use for one's own purposes; employ:
3. of no use, of no advantage or help: Also, no use.
4. put to use, to apply; employ to advantage:

Verb phrases

1. use up, to consume entirely. to exhaust of vigor or usefulness; finish:

verb (used with object)

1. to employ for some purpose; put into service; make use of:
2. to avail oneself of; apply to one's own purposes:
3. to expend or consume in use:
4. to treat or behave toward:
5. to take unfair advantage of; exploit:
6. to drink, smoke, or ingest habitually:
7. to habituate or accustom.
8. Archaic. to practice habitually or customarily; make a practice of.

verb (used without object)

1. to be accustomed or customarily found (used with an infinitive expressed or understood, and, except in archaic use, now only in the past):
2. Archaic. to resort, stay, or dwell customarily.

Origin of USES

1175-1225; (v.) Middle English usen Old French user Latin ūsus, past participle of ūtī to use; (noun) Middle English Old French Latin ūsus act of using a thing, application, employment, equiv

Examples for USES

Actually, sexually assaulted is the term she USES now, but Dunham doesn't directly describe it as such in the book.

Langen too USES the knife, but with a certain judicious restraint.

But as a lawyer, she USES law to contribute to their protection.

Every housewife who USES a teakettle is familiar with this condition.

Note: UNICOR USES its inmates for everything from call center operators to human demolishers of old computers.

He USES some combination of the words comfort or discomfort in regards to how he feels about situations over 30 times.

I'm just not sure that the formula continues to work for us at 50 given other USES we might have for that money.

We call ours a utilitarian age, and we do not know the USES of any single thing.

Lastly, it does not run counter to man's economic laws; it only USES and transcends them.

But it is offensive to man, insulting to the atmosphere, and destructive of him who USES it.