Found 3 items, similar to usage.
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: usage
kebiasaan, kelaziman, pemanfaatan
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: usage
usage
n 1: the act of using;
“he warned against the use of narcotic
drugs”;
“skilled in the utilization of computers” [syn:
use,
utilization,
utilisation,
employment,
exercise]
2: accepted or habitual practice [syn:
custom,
usance]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Usage
Usage
\Us"age\, n. [F. usage, LL. usaticum. See
Use.]
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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.
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My brother
Is prisoner to the bishop here, at whose hands
He hath good usage and great liberty. --Shak.
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2. Manners; conduct; behavior. [Obs.]
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A gentle nymph was found,
Hight Astery, excelling all the crew
In courteous usage. --Spenser.
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3. Long-continued practice; customary mode of procedure;
custom; habitual use; method. --Chaucer.
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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.
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4. Customary use or employment, as of a word or phrase in a
particular sense or signification.
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5. Experience. [Obs.]
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In eld [old age] is both wisdom and usage.
--Chaucer.
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Syn: Custom; use; habit.
Usage:
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.
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