use
/jus/ noun A2- The act of using. · The use of torture has been condemned by the United Nations.
- The act of consuming alcohol or narcotics.
- Usefulness, utility, benefit; purpose, point. · Near-synonyms: meaning, meaningfulness· What's the use of a law that nobody follows?
- A function; a purpose for which something may be employed. · This tool has many uses.
- Occasion or need to employ; necessity. · I have no further use for these textbooks, but we may have use for all these other things later.
- A special form of a rite adopted for use in a particular context, often a diocese. · the Sarum, or Canterbury, use; the York use; the Ordinariate use
- 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.
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It will do you quite the same service; for when the gold was there, you had it not, as you did not make the slightest use of it.”
Their feet, however, became so smeared with the honey that they could not use their wings, nor release themselves, and were suffocated.
If you wish me to use my magic power to send you home again you must do something for me first.
But surely there is no use for a Scarecrow stuck on a pole in the middle of a river.
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