OXFORD 9000
📚 verb • entry_id 9079

use

/juːz/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
usar • utilizar
To utilize or employ.
Use this knife to slice the bread.
We can use this mathematical formula to solve the problem.
acostumbrar • soler
To habitually do; to be wont to do. (Now chiefly in past-tense forms; see used to.)
I used to get things done.
Peter Pol, doctor in divinitie used to sit upon his mule, who as Monstrelet reporteth, was wont to ride up and downe the streets of Paris, ever sitting sideling, as women use.