Usage
11Usage — (fr., spr. Üsahsch), Brauch, Gebrauch, Herkommen, Gewohnheit; daher U. du monde, Weltsitte, Weltton …
12usage — 1 practice, custom, use, *habit, habitude, wont Analogous words: *method, mode, manner, way, fashion: procedure, proceeding, *process: guiding or guidance, leading or lead (see corresponding verbs at GUIDE): *choice …
13usage — [n] habit, custom acceptance, control, convention, currency, form, formula, habitude, handling, management, matter of course, method, mode, operation, practice, praxis, procedure, regime, regulation, rote, routine, rule, running, tradition,… …
14usage — ► NOUN 1) the action of using something or the fact of being used. 2) habitual or customary practice …
15usage — [yo͞o′sij, yo͞o′zij] n. [OFr < ML usagium < L usus: see USE] 1. the act, way, or extent of using or treating; treatment; use 2. long continued or established practice; habitual or customary use or way of acting; custom; habit 3. the way in… …
16usage — (u za j ) s. m. 1° Action d user de, emploi de. • Je ne hais point la vie, et j en aime l usage, CORN. Poly. v, 2. • Soumission et usage de la raison, en quoi consiste le vrai christianisme, PASC. Pens. XIII, 2 bis, éd. HAVET.. • Un peu… …
17USAGE — s. m. Coutume, pratique reçue. Long, constant, ancien, perpétuel usage. C était l usage du pays, du temps. Cela est reçu par l usage. C est l usage. L usage le veut ainsi. C est son usage d agir ainsi. Cela est conforme, est contraire à l usage.… …
18USAGE — n. m. Coutume, pratique reçue. Long, constant, ancien, perpétuel usage. C’était l’usage du pays, du temps. Cela est reçu par l’usage. C’est l’usage. L’usage le veut ainsi. Cela est conforme, est contraire à l’usage. Suivre l’usage. Braver l’usage …
19usage — noun 1 way/amount that sth is used ADJECTIVE ▪ heavy, high ▪ high energy usage ▪ low ▪ normal ▪ With normal usage …
20usage — A reasonable and lawful public custom in a locality concerning particular transactions which is either known to the parties, or so well established, general, and uniform that they must be presumed to have acted with reference thereto. Practice in …
