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Using

noun

1.

An act that exploits or victimizes someone (treats them unfairly). Synonyms: exploitation, victimisation, victimization. "Paying Blacks less and charging them more is a form of victimization"

Use

verb

(past & past part. used; pres. part. using)

1.

Put into service; make work or employ for a particular purpose or for its inherent or natural purpose. Synonyms: apply, employ, utilise, utilize. "We only use Spanish at home" , "I can't use this tool" , "Apply a magnetic field here" , "This thinking was applied to many projects" , "How do you utilize this tool?" , "I apply this rule to get good results" , "Use the plastic bags to store the food" , "He doesn't know how to use a computer"

2.

Take or consume (regularly or habitually). Synonym: habituate.

3.

Use up, consume fully. Synonym: expend.

4.

Seek or achieve an end by using to one's advantage. "The president's wife used her good connections"

5.

Avail oneself to. Synonyms: apply, practice. "Practice a religion" , "Use care when going down the stairs" , "Use your common sense" , "Practice non-violent resistance"

6.

Habitually do something (use only in the past tense). "I used to get sick when I ate in that dining hall" , "They used to vacation in the Bahamas"

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"Using" Quotes from Famous Books

... very careful not to compromise his position by telling unpleasant truths; but, on the present occasion, Harry made a literal use of the brevet of brotherhood which Lillie had bestowed on him, and talked to her as the generality of real brothers talk to their sisters, using great plainness of speech. He withered all her poor little trumpery array of hothouse flowers of sentiment, by treating them as so much garbage, as all men know they are. He set before her the gravity ...

— Pink and White Tyranny - A Society Novel • Harriet Beecher Stowe

... utilised to generate mechanical energy through the agency of windmills and other contrivances. The tides as a source of useful power have hardly yet begun to make their influence felt, and indeed the possibility of largely using them is still a matter of doubt. The relative advantages of reclaiming a given area of soil for purposes of cultivation, and of converting the same land into a tidal basin in order to generate power through the inward and outward flow ...

— Twentieth Century Inventions - A Forecast • George Sutherland

... between the two is probably close enough. The little dealer is probably in the habit of pledging his 'securities' to the larger dealer at a rate less than he has himself charged, and of running into the market to lend again. His time and brains are his principal capital, and he wants to be always using them. But in times of incipient panic, the minor money dealer always becomes alarmed. His credit is never very established or very wide; he always fears that he may be the person on whom current suspicion ...

— Lombard Street: A Description of the Money Market • Walter Bagehot

... you out, and be all the more suspicious and skeptical in consequence. We must deal with them honestly; tell them nothing but what is true, and use no arguments but what are sound and unanswerable. Advocates of Christianity have made numberless unbelievers by teaching erroneous doctrines, and by using weak and vicious arguments. The Christian should so speak and act, that it shall be impossible for any one ever to find ...

— Modern Skepticism: A Journey Through the Land of Doubt and Back Again - A Life Story • Joseph Barker

... unmathematical readers will pardon my using this method of statement for the benefit of others to whom it will carry conviction. A relation once clearly grasped in its mathematical aspect becomes thenceforth one of the unalterable truths ...

— The Hidden Power - And Other Papers upon Mental Science • Thomas Troward

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