OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 9078

use

/juːs/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
empleo • usaje (disused) • usanza • uso • utilización
The act of using.
In his submission to the UN, [Christof] Heyns points to the experience of drones. Unmanned aerial vehicles were intended initially only for surveillance, and their use for offensiv…
The use of torture has been condemned by the United Nations.
utilidad
Usefulness, benefit.
God made two great lights, great for their use / To man.
What's the use of a law that nobody follows?
función
A function; a purpose for which something may be employed.
The use of algorithms in policing is one example of their increasing influence on our lives. And, as their ubiquity spreads, so too does the debate around whether we should allow o…
This tool has many uses.
Word forms
📚 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.