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Definition of use 1 in English Turkish dictionary
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Definition of use 1 in English English dictionary
- If someone uses drugs, they take drugs regularly, especially illegal ones. He denied he had used drugs = take, do
- If you use a particular name, you call yourself by that name, especially when it is not the name that you usually call yourself. Now I use a false name if I'm meeting people for the first time
- politeness You can say that someone uses the toilet or bathroom as a polite way of saying that they go to the toilet. Wash your hands after using the toilet He asked whether he could use my bathroom
- disapproval If you say that someone uses people, you disapprove of them because they make others do things for them in order to benefit or gain some advantage from it, and not because they care about the other people. Be careful she's not just using you Why do I have the feeling I'm being used again? = exploit see also used
- If you use something, you do something with it in order to do a job or to achieve a particular result or effect. Trim off the excess pastry using a sharp knife He had simply used a little imagination Officials used loud hailers to call for calm The show uses Zondo's trial and execution as its framework
- If you use a particular word or expression, you say or write it, because it has the meaning that you want to express. The judge liked using the word `wicked' of people he had sent to jail
- If you use a supply of something, you finish it so that none of it is left. You used all the ice cubes and didn't put the ice trays back They've never had anything spare -- they've always used it all. Use up means the same as use. It isn't them who use up the world's resources We were breathing really fast, and using the air up quickly