• Catalan: ús
• Chinese: 用 (yòng)
• Czech: použití
• Dutch: gebruik
• Finnish: käyttö
• French: usage
• German: Benutzung , Anwendung , Gebrauch
• Italian: uso
• Japanese: 使用 (shiyō), 利用 (riyō)
• Kurdish:
• Norwegian: bruk
• Polish: użycie, stosowanie
• Portuguese: uso
• Romanian: folosire , uz
• Romansch: niz
• Russian: употребление (upotreblénije)
• Slovene: uporaba (1), raba (1)
• Spanish: uso
• Turkish: kullanma, kullanım, kullanış
• Vietnamese: sự dùng

• Dutch: nut
• Finnish: hyödyllisyys, hyöty
• French: utilité
• German: Nutzen
• Japanese: 効用 (kōyō)
• Kurdish:
• Norwegian: nytte
• Polish: użytek, użyteczność
• Spanish: utilidad
• Turkish: fayda, yarar
• Vietnamese: ích

• ttbc Chinese: 用 (yòng), 使用

Verb

1. To employ; to apply; to utilize.

   Use this knife to slice the bread.

   We can use this mathematical formula to solve the problem.

2. To exhaust the supply of; to consume by employing

   They already used up most of the fuel.

3. to perform habitually; to be accustomed [to doing something]

   He used to live here, but moved away last year.''

Synonyms

• apply
• employ
• engage
• exploit
• take advantage of
• utilise/utilize (use sparingly)

Translations

Derived terms

• usability
• usable
• usage
• used
• used to
• useful
• user

References

Use may refer to:

• Use (law), an obligation on a person to whom property has been conveyed
• Use-mention distinction, the distinction between using a word and mentioning it

See also

• USE

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