usage
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Anglo-Norman usagebor.
Middle English usage
English usage
From Middle English usage, from Anglo-Norman and Old French usage. Equivalent to use + -age.
Base: use
Affixes: -age
Inflected forms:
form: usages
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: usuage
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: Habit, practice.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
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.
gloss: Habit, practice.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: Utilization.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: Utilization.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: In descriptive fact, word senses are established by usage.
gloss: Utilization.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: usage prescriptions
In prescriptive ideal, writers will optimize their usage.
gloss: Utilization.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
examples: 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
Derived words: ill-usage
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Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: обичай
roman: običaj
lang: Catalan
word: ús
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 習慣 /习惯
roman: xíguàn
lang: Finnish
word: käytäntö
lang: French
word: coutume
lang: French
word: usage
lang: Galician
word: uso
lang: Galician
word: usanza
lang: Galician
word: hábito
lang: German
word: Brauch
lang: Hungarian
word: szokás
lang: Hungarian
word: gyakorlat
lang: Italian
word: uso
lang: Italian
word: usi
lang: Japanese
word: 使い方
roman: tsukaikata
lang: Japanese
word: 習慣
roman: shūkan
lang: Malayalam
word: ഉപയോഗം
roman: upayōgaṁ
lang: Norwegian
word: anvendelse
lang: Polish
word: zwyczaj
lang: Polish
word: praktyka
lang: Polish
word: uzus
lang: Portuguese
word: emprego
lang: Portuguese
word: uso
lang: Russian
word: обы́чай
roman: obýčaj
lang: Russian
word: обыкнове́ние
roman: obyknovénije
lang: Russian
word: привы́чка
roman: privýčka
lang: Russian
word: тради́ция
roman: tradícija
lang: Spanish
word: usanza
lang: Spanish
word: usaje
lang: Telugu
word: వాడుక
roman: vāḍuka
lang: Ukrainian
word: зви́чай
roman: zvýčaj
lang: Bulgarian
word: употреба
roman: upotreba
lang: Czech
word: jazyková praxe
lang: Esperanto
word: lingvaĵo
lang: Finnish
word: kielenkäyttö
lang: Finnish
word: puhetapa
lang: French
word: usage
lang: Galician
word: emprego
lang: Galician
word: uso
lang: German
word: Gebrauch
lang: Hungarian
word: szóhasználat
lang: Indonesian
word: praktik berbahasa
lang: Japanese
word: 使い方
roman: tsukaikata
lang: Japanese
word: 用法
roman: yōhō
lang: Malayalam
word: ഉപയോഗരീതി
roman: upayōgarīti
lang: Norwegian
word: bruk
lang: Polish
word: praktyka językowa
lang: Polish
word: uzus językowy
lang: Portuguese
word: emprego
lang: Russian
word: употребле́ние
roman: upotreblénije
lang: Russian
word: языковая практика
roman: jazykovaja praktika
lang: Russian
word: словоупотребление
roman: slovoupotreblenije
lang: Russian
word: у́зус
roman: úzus
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: jezična uporaba
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: jezična praksa
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: jezična izvedba
lang: Slovak
word: jazyková prax
lang: Telugu
word: వాడుక
roman: vāḍuka
lang: Ukrainian
word: слововжива́ння
roman: slovovžyvánnja
lang: Ukrainian
word: слововжи́ток
roman: slovovžýtok
lang: Ukrainian
word: у́зус
roman: úzus