usage

  • 31usage — noun 1) energy usage Syn: use, consumption, utilization 2) the usage of equipment Syn: use, utilization, operation, manipulation, running, handling 3) the intricacies of English usage …

    Thesaurus of popular words

  • 32usage — noun 1) energy usage Syn: consumption, use 2) the usage of equipment Syn: use, utilization, operation, manipulation, running, handling 3) English usage …

    Synonyms and antonyms dictionary

  • 33usage — A uniform course of conduct in some particular business or calling, even though it is that of only one person. 21 Am J2d Cost & U § 1. Usage is habitual or customary practice. Orlich v Rubio Sav. Bank, 240 Iowa 1074, 38 NW2d 622, 10 ALR2d 340.… …

    Ballentine's law dictionary

  • 34USAGÉ, ÉE — adj. des deux genres Qui a beaucoup servi et qui porte les marques de l’usage qu’on en a fait. Des sacs neufs et des sacs usagés. Un vêtement, un livre usagé. Fig., Une expression, une métaphore usagée. Il est familier …

    Dictionnaire de l'Academie Francaise, 8eme edition (1935)

  • 35usage — creusage décreusage décrusage non usage usage éclusage …

    Dictionnaire des rimes

  • 36usage — I (Roget s IV) n. 1. [Custom] Syn. practice, wont, rule, habit, habiture, convention, way, method, mode, routine, rote, formula, acceptance, regulation, currency. 2. [Accepted language] Syn. good usage, grammatical usage, approved diction; see… …

    English dictionary for students

  • 37usage — us|age [ˈju:sıdʒ, ˈju:z ] n 1.) [U and C] the way that words are used in a language ▪ a book on modern English usage 2.) [U] the way in which something is used, or the amount of it that is used ▪ Water usage is increasing …

    Dictionary of contemporary English

  • 38usage —  , use  The words are largely interchangeable. In general, usage appears in contexts involving languages ( modern English usage ) and use in most other cases …

    Bryson’s dictionary for writers and editors

  • 39usage — noun Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo French, from us use Date: 14th century 1. a. firmly established and generally accepted practice or procedure b. a uniform certain reasonable lawful practice existing in a particular locality or… …

    New Collegiate Dictionary

  • 40usage — noun 1 (C, U) the way that words are used in a language: a book on modern English usage 2 (U) the way in which something is used, or the amount of it that is used …

    Longman dictionary of contemporary English