Meaning of usage | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Habit, practice.
   countable, uncountable
2. A custom or established practice.
   countable, uncountable
3. The way in which expressions are actually used by people, or a particular expression that is used.
4. Custom, tradition.
   uncountable
5. uso, costumbre.
6. Utilization.
   countable, uncountable
7. The act of using something; use, employment.
   countable, uncountable
8. The act, manner, or amount of using; use: patterns of computer usage; an instrument that measures water usage.
9. The established custom of using language; the ways and contexts in which spoken and written words are used, especially by a certain group of people or in a certain region.
   countable, uncountable
10. Prevailing language style: how words are used among a populace.
    countable, uncountable
11. Habitual or accepted practice: customs that have faded from common usage.
12. Choice of language style (made by a speaker or writer).
    countable, uncountable
13. The way in which words or phrases are actually used, spoken, or written in a speech community: "Dictionaries are but the depositories of words already legitimated by usage" (Thomas Jefferson).
14. Action towards someone; treatment, especially in negative sense.
    archaic, countable, uncountable
15. the act or a manner of using; use; employment
16. constant use, custom, or habit
17. something permitted or established by custom or practice
18. (Linguistics) what is actually said in a language, esp as contrasted with what is prescribed
19. a customary way of doing something; a custom or practice.

Equivalents

Examples

“[S]everal young people sung sacred music in the churchyard at night, which it seems is an usage here.”

“Mrs. Wickam, agreeably to the usage of some ladies in her condition, pursued […] the subject, without any compunction.”

“Demand continues to increase, and in 2023-24 recorded usage was higher than pre-COVID, with 384,000 passenger journeys in total (of which 247,000 were at the town location). At the other end of the branch, Truro station had usage of 1.19 million, of which 255,000 were recorded as interchange passengers.”

“In descriptive fact, word senses are established by usage.”

“usage prescriptions”

“In prescriptive ideal, writers will optimize their usage.”

“Whose sharp provokement them incenst so sore, / That both were bent t'avenge his usage base […]”

“Satisfy a child by a constant course of your care and kindness, that you perfectly love him, and he may by degrees be accustom'd to bear very painful and rough usage from you, without flinching or complaining”

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