English-Thai Dictionary
usage
N การ ใช้ วิธีใช้ utilization kan-chai
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
USAGE
n.s as z. [See Use. ] 1. Treatment; an action or series of actions performed by one person towards another, or which directly affect him; as good usage; ill usage; hard usage. Gentle usage will often effect what harsh usage will not. The elephant may be governed by mild usage.
2. Use, or long continued use; custom; practice. Uninterrupted usage for a long time, or immemorial usage constitutes prescription. Custom is a local usage; prescription is a personal usage. In language, usage is the foundation of all rules.
Of things once received and confirmed by use, long usage is a law sufficient.
3. Manners; behavior. Obs.
USAGER
n.s as z. One who has the use of any thing in trust for another. [Not in use. ]
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
USAGE
Us "age, n. Etym: [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. Shak.
2. Manners; conduct; behavior. [Obs. ] A gentle nymph was found, Hight Astery, excelling all the crew In courteous usage. Spenser.
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. Macaulay.
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. Chaucer.
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. Etym: [F. usager. ]
Defn: One who has the use of anything in trust for another. [Obs. ] Daniel.
New American Oxford Dictionary
usage
us age |ˈyo͞osij, -zij ˈjuzɪʤ ˈjusɪʤ | ▶noun the action of using something or the fact of being used: a survey of water usage | the usage of equipment. • the way in which a word or phrase is normally and correctly used. • habitual or customary practice, esp. as creating a right, obligation, or standard. ORIGIN Middle English (in the sense ‘customary practice ’): from Old French, from us ‘a use ’ (see use ).
Oxford Dictionary
usage
usage |ˈjuːsɪdʒ | ▶noun [ mass noun ] the action of using something or the fact of being used: a survey of water usage | the usage of equipment. • the way in which a word or phrase is normally and correctly used. • habitual or customary practice, especially as creating a right, obligation, or standard. ORIGIN Middle English (in the sense ‘customary practice ’): from Old French, from us ‘a use ’ (see use ).
American Oxford Thesaurus
usage
usage noun 1 energy usage: use, consumption, utilization. 2 the usage of equipment: use, utilization, operation, manipulation, running, handling. 3 the intricacies of English usage: phraseology, parlance, idiom, way of speaking /writing, mode of expression, style; idiolect. 4 the usages of polite society: custom, practice, habit, tradition, convention, rule, observance; way, procedure, form, wont; formal praxis; (usages ) mores. EASILY CONFUSED WORDS usage, use Usage means 'manner of use, practice, ' while use means 'the act of employing. ' In discussions of writing, usage is the term for normal or prescribed practice: standard usage calls for a plural. In describing particular examples, however, employ use: the use of the plural with this noun is incorrect. These notes clear up confusion between similar-looking pairs.
Oxford Thesaurus
usage
usage noun 1 the increased usage of private cars | significant increases in energy usage: utilization, use, employment, consumption, operation, manipulation, running, handling. 2 the intricacies of English usage: phraseology, phrasing, diction, parlance, idiom, choice of words, terminology; way of speaking /writing, manner of speaking /writing, style (of speaking /writing ), mode of speaking /writing, mode of expression; French façon de parler; technical idiolect, sociolect. 3 the dictates and usages of polite society: custom, practice, habit, tradition, convention, routine, rule, rite, ritual, observance, ordinance, ceremony, ceremonial; way, procedure, method, mode, form, formality, wont; formal praxis; (usages ) Latin mores; French moeurs.
French Dictionary
usagé
usagé , ée adj. adjectif Qui a servi, mais qui est encore en bon état. : Un cartable usagé, mais toujours beau. Note Sémantique Ne pas confondre avec le mot usé, détérioré par l ’usure. FORME FAUTIVE usagé. Anglicisme au sens de (marchandise ) d ’occasion.
usage
usage n. m. nom masculin 1 Emploi d ’une chose. : Il avait perdu l ’usage d ’un œil. Ils ont fait un usage abusif de cet appareil. SYNONYME utilisation . 2 Façon habituelle de faire. : Il faut agir ainsi; c ’est l ’usage! SYNONYME règle ; tradition . 3 linguistique Utilisation effective du langage par le plus grand nombre, à une époque déterminée, dans une communauté linguistique. : « L ’usage, c ’est [...] la façon de parler de la plus saine partie de la cour, conformément à la façon d ’écrire de la plus saine partie des auteurs du temps » (Vaugelas , Remarques sur la langue française ). LOCUTIONS À l ’usage de Destiné à. : Cet abécédaire est à l ’usage des enfants. À l ’usage. Selon l ’expérience. : À l ’usage, la banque de données s ’est révélée très efficace. D ’usage Conforme aux règles. : Les formules d ’usage. En usage Utilisé de façon courante. : Ce terme n ’est plus en usage. ANTONYME hors d ’usage . Faire usage de. Employer. : En cette matière, il faut faire usage de bon sens. SYNONYME utiliser . Hors d ’usage Désuet, vieilli. : Un terme hors d ’usage. ANTONYME en usage . Il est d ’usage de. .. Il convient de. ..
usager
usager , ère n. m. et f. nom masculin et féminin 1 Personne qui fait usage d ’un service public ou du domaine public. : Les usagers du train, du métro. 2 Utilisateur (d ’une langue ). : Les usagers du français, de l ’anglais.
Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary
usage
us age /júːsɪdʒ, -zɪdʒ / (! /júːsɪdʒ /は若者に多い ) 〖use (使用する )age (状態 )〗名詞 複 ～s /-ɪz /1 U C 語法 , (言語の )慣用法 ▸ common usage 一般的な用法 ▸ modern English usage 現代英語語法 2 U (物などの )使用 (法 ), 取り扱い (方 ); 使用量 ▸ drug usage 薬の使用 (法 )3 U C 慣習, しきたり ▸ according to usage 慣例によって
The Wordsmith Dictionary