| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | application; employment |
| Synonyms: | account, adoption, advantage, appliance, applicability, appropriateness, avail, benefit, call, capitalization, cause, convenience, custom, end, exercise, exercising, exertion, fitness, good, habit, handling, help, helpfulness, mileage, mobilization, necessity, need, object, occasion, operation, point, practice, profit, purpose, reason, relevance, service, serviceability, treatment, usability, usage, usefulness, utility, value, way, wear and tear, wont, worth |
| Notes: | the difference between use and usage consists primarily in the fact that the former has a specific, the latter a general sense |
| Main Entry: | usefulness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
adequate, advantageous, applicable, at hand, available, commodious, conducive, effective, effectual, efficacious, efficient, expedient, functional, gainful, good for, handy, in use, instrumental, intarrisable, intermediate, intervening, mechanical, mediatorial, ministerial, of all work, of use, polychrestic, proficuous, profitable, prolific, qua, remunerative, serviceable, subservient, subsidiary, tangible, useful, valuable, well, worth one's salt
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| Concept: | Use. |
| Category: | 2. Subservience to ends; precursory measures |
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-nouns
use; employ, employment; exercise, exercitation; application, appliance; adhibition, disposal; consumption; agency (physical); usufruct; usefulness; benefit; recourse, resort, avail., [Conversion to use] utilization, service, wear., [Way of using] usage.
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| Antonyms: | disuse, misuse |
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