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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | devaluation due to use |
| Synonyms: | ablation, attrition, consumption, decrement, depletion, depreciation, dissipation, erosion, hard wear, overuse, ravages of time, wearing away, weathering |
| Main Entry: | consumption |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | devouring; use |
| Synonyms: | burning, consuming, damage, decay, decrease, depletion, desolation, destruction, devastation, diminution, dispersion, dissipation, drinking, eating, exhaustion, expenditure, loss, misuse, ruin, swallowing, using up, utilization, waste, wear and tear |
| Antonyms: | fasting, starvation |
| Main Entry: | harm |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | injury, evil |
| Synonyms: | abuse, banefulness, damage, deleteriousness, detriment, disservice, foul play, hurt, ill, immorality, impairment, infliction, iniquity, loss, marring, mischance, mischief, misfortune, misuse, noxiousness, outrage, perniciousness, prejudice, ravage, ruin, ruination, sabotage, sin, sinfulness, vandalism, vice, violence, wear and tear, wickedness, wrong |
| Antonyms: | advantage, benefit, blessing, good, pleasure |
| Main Entry: | use |
| 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: | wear |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | use, corrosion |
| Synonyms: | abrasion, attrition, damage, depreciation, deterioration, dilapidation, diminution, disappearance, employment, erosion, friction, impairment, inroads, loss, mileage, service, usefulness, utility, waste, wear and tear |
| Notes: | ware is an item bought or a piece of pottery; wear is erosion; and where is a place |
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| Main Entry: | age |
| Part of Speech: | noun, verb |
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advanced in life, advanced in years, aged, ancestral, anicular, anile, annotinous, annuated, antiquated, ayne, declining, decrepit, doited, effete, eigne, elder, eldest, epigonous, first, gerocomical, gray, gray, hoar, hoary, in years, insenescible, juvenescent, marked with a crow's foot, matronly, mellow, no chicken, of a certain age, old, old as Methuselah, older, oldest, past one's prime, patriarchal, quadragenarious, ripe, run to seed, senescent, senile, senior, silurian, stricken in years, superannuated, time, venerable, waning, wrinkled, years old
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| Concept: | Age. |
| Category: | 2. RELATIVE TIME; Time with reference to succession |
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-nouns
age; oldness; old age, advanced age, golden years; senility, senescence; years, anility, gray hairs, climacteric, grand climacteric, declining years, decrepitude, hoary age, caducity, superannuation; second childhood, second childishness; dotage; vale of years, decline of life, "sear and yellow leaf" [Macbeth]; threescore years and ten; green old age, ripe age; longevity; time of life., seniority, eldership; elders (veteran); firstling; doyen, father; primogeniture., [Science of old age] geriatrics, nostology.
-verbs
be aged; grow old, get old; age; decline, wane, dodder; senesce.
-adjectives
aged; old; elderly, geriatric, senile; matronly, anile; in years; ripe, mellow, run to seed, declining, waning, past one's prime; gray, gray-headed; hoar, hoary; venerable, time-worn, antiquated, passe, effete, decrepit, superannuated; advanced in life, advanced in years; stricken in years; wrinkled, long in the tooth, marked with the crow's foot; having one foot in the grave; doting (imbecile); like the last of pea time., older, elder, oldest, eldest; senior; firstborn; ichiban, ichiro [Japanese]., turned of, years old; of a certain age, no spring chicken, old as Methuselah; ancestral; patriarchal (ancient); gerontic.
-adverbs
pro tem
-phrases
"give me a staff of honor for my age" [Titus Andronicus]; bis pueri senes ["Old men are boys again" (Latin)]; peu de gens savent être vieux ["Few know how to be old" (French)]; plenus annis abiit plenus honoribus [Pliny the Younger. "Who has departed full in years has departed full in honors" (Latin)]; "old age is creeping on apace" [Byron]; "slow-consuming age"' [Gray]; "the hoary head is a crown of glory" [Proverbs xvi, [more]]; "the silver livery of advised age" [II Henry VI]; to grow old gracefully; "to vanish in the chinks
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| Antonyms: | youth, adolescence |
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| Concept: | Use. |
| Category: | 2. Subservience to ends; precursory measures |
| Synonyms: |
-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.
-verbs
use, make use of, employ, put to use; put in action, put in operation, put in practice; set in motion, set to work., ply, work, wield, handle, manipulate; play, play off; exert, exercise, practice, avail oneself of, profit by, resort to, have recourse to, recur to, take betake oneself to; take up with, take advantage of; lay one's hands on, try., render useful; mold; turn to account, turn to use; convert to use, utilize; work up; call into play, bring into play; put into requisition; call forth, draw forth; press into service, enlist into the service; bring to bear upon, devote, dedicate, consecrate, apply, adhibit, dispose of; make a handle of, make a cat's-paw of., fall back upon, make a shift with; make the most of, make the best of., use up, swallow up; consume, absorb, expend; tax, task, wear, put to task.
-adjectives
in use; used; well-worn, well-trodden., useful; subservient (instrumental).
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| Antonyms: | disuse, misuse |
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