usage

[UsĀ·age]

Usage is the act of using something. Your cell phone usage is something you'll want to keep track of so you don't find yourself surprised by overages and extra charges that might make you want to cry.

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The act of using; mode of using or treating; treatment; conduct with respect to a person or a thing; as, good usage; ill usage; hard usage.

Noun
accepted or habitual practice

Noun
the act of using; "he warned against the use of narcotic drugs"; "skilled in the utilization of computers"


n.
The act of using; mode of using or treating; treatment; conduct with respect to a person or a thing; as, good usage; ill usage; hard usage.

n.
Manners; conduct; behavior.

n.
Long-continued practice; customary mode of procedure; custom; habitual use; method.

n.
Customary use or employment, as of a word or phrase in a particular sense or signification.

n.
Experience.


Usage

Us"age , n. [F. usage, LL. usaticum. See Use.] 1. The act of using; mode of using or treating; treatment; conduct with respect to a person or a thing; as, good usage; ill usage; hard usage.
My brother Is prisoner to the bishop here, at whose hands He hath good usage and great liberty.
2. Manners; conduct; behavior. [Obs.]
A gentle nymph was found, Hight Astery, excelling all the crew In courteous usage.
3. Long-continued practice; customary mode of procedure; custom; habitual use; method. Chaucer.
It has now been, during many years, the grave and decorous usage of Parliaments to hear, in respectful silence, all expressions, acceptable or unacceptable, which are uttered from the throne.
4. Customary use or employment, as of a word or phrase in a particular sense or signification. 5. Experience. [Obs.]
In eld [old age] is both wisdom and usage.
Syn. -- Custom; use; habit. -- Usage, Custom. These words, as here compared, agree in expressing the idea of habitual practice; but a custom is not necessarily a usage. A custom may belong to many, or to a single individual. A usage properly belongs to the great body of a people. Hence, we speak of usage, not of custom, as the law of language. Again, a custom is merely that which has been often repeated, so as to have become, in a good degree, established. A usage must be both often repeated and of long standing. Hence, we speak of a "hew custom," but not of a "new usage." Thus, also, the "customs of society" is not so strong an expression as the "usages of society." "Custom, a greater power than nature, seldom fails to make them worship." Locke. "Of things once received and confirmed by use, long usage is a law sufficient." Hooker. In law, the words usage and custom are often used interchangeably, but the word custom also has a technical and restricted sense. See Custom, n., 3.

Usager

Us"a*ger , n. [F. usager.] One who has the use of anything in trust for another. [Obs.] Daniel.

The act of using; mode of using or treating; treatment; conduct with respect to a person or a thing; as, good usage; ill usage; hard usage.

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Usage Examples

Look at growth, look at how much time people spend on the Net and look at the variety of things that they are doing. It's all really good, so I am actually encouraged by the fundamentals that underlie usage growth on the Net.

Again, like I said, we're not trying to censor anyone. If you think drugs are cool, fine. Make that movie. We are not going to stop you, or try to stop you, but we would encourage other people to be a bit more responsible about their portrayal of drug usage.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.

I carried through well with my tennis. I got the respect by usage of the tennis racket.

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