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use

/jus/ sustantivo A2

En español: uso, usanza, utilización, empleo

  1. The act of using. (countable, uncountable) · The use of torture has been condemned by the United Nations.
  2. The act of consuming alcohol or narcotics. (uncountable)
  3. Usefulness, utility, benefit; purpose, point. (uncountable) · Near-synonyms: meaning, meaningfulness· What's the use of a law that nobody follows?
  4. A function; a purpose for which something may be employed. (countable, uncountable) · This tool has many uses.
  5. Occasion or need to employ; necessity. (countable, uncountable) · I have no further use for these textbooks, but we may have use for all these other things later.
  6. A special form of a rite adopted for use in a particular context, often a diocese. (countable, uncountable) · the Sarum, or Canterbury, use; the York use; the Ordinariate use
  7. 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. (countable, uncountable)

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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.”
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables, p. 15 · B2
Their feet, however, became so smeared with the honey that they could not use their wings, nor release themselves, and were suffocated.
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables, p. 7 · B2
If you wish me to use my magic power to send you home again you must do something for me first.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, p. 69 · B2
But surely there is no use for a Scarecrow stuck on a pole in the middle of a river.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, p. 45 · B2

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