What does usage mean?
Definitions for usage
ˈyu sɪdʒ, -zɪdʒus·age
Here are all the possible meanings and translations of the word usage.
Princeton's WordNet
use, usage, utilization, utilisation, employment, exercisenoun
the act of using
"he warned against the use of narcotic drugs"; "skilled in the utilization of computers"
custom, usage, usancenoun
accepted or habitual practice
usagenoun
the customary manner in which a language (or a form of a language) is spoken or written
"English usage"; "a usage borrowed from French"
Wiktionary
usagenoun
The manner or the amount of using; use
Etymology: From and usage.
usagenoun
Habit or accepted practice
Etymology: From and usage.
usagenoun
The ways and contexts in which spoken and written words are used, determined by a lexicographer's intuition or from corpus analysis.
Etymology: From and usage.
Webster Dictionary
Usagenoun
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
Usagenoun
manners; conduct; behavior
Usagenoun
long-continued practice; customary mode of procedure; custom; habitual use; method
Usagenoun
customary use or employment, as of a word or phrase in a particular sense or signification
Usagenoun
experience
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Usage
ū′zāj, n. act or mode of using: treatment: practice: custom.—ns. U′sager, one of the non-jurors who maintained 'the usages'—mixed chalices, oblation in prayer of consecration, and prayer for the dead. [Fr.,—Low L.,—L. usus.]
The Roycroft Dictionary
usage
The consecration in time of something that was originally absurd.
Editors Contribution
usage
An amount of use.
The water usage was recorded.
Submitted by MaryC on March 15, 2020
British National Corpus
Nouns Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'usage' in Nouns Frequency: #2533
Anagrams for usage »
agues, gause
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of usage in Chaldean Numerology is: 9
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of usage in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8
Examples of usage in a Sentence
Did we give unlimited free calls to people so that more people start making calls? So why this almost patronizing approach to the Internet. You're effectively disadvantaging other companies and broader usage of the web.
An employee will be written up if they don't observe social distancing, but facemask usage is only recommended ?
Socialism praise and admire the usage, or application of technology and the implementation of scientific approach before anything else.
Parents constantly text kids throughout the day and kids get very anxious if they are unable to answer them, the content of the texts is almost never school related, though. Even during our state testing, when strict rules go into place about phone usage, parents call the school and demand their kids get their phone back. And when I call parents to report bad behavior or grades due to phone use, the phone is rarely taken away as a consequence.
Most superficially what we found was that smartphone users have a brain that processes touch differently than people who don't use smartscreen touch phones, however, if you dig a bit deeper into the data what you essentially see is that the most recent usage that people accumulated on their smartphones that reflected on the way that brains processed information from their fingertips. So essentially these day-to-day fluctuations that we encounter through our daily lives they imprint on the brain on the way that it processes information from your hands.
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Translations for usage
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- Brauch, Gebrauch, Anwendung, Benutzung, VerwendungGerman
- استفاده از, کاربردPersian
- käytäntö, käyttö, kielenkäyttö, käsittely, puhetapaFinnish
- coutume, usageFrench
- szóhasználat, használat, gyakorlat, szokásHungarian
- 使い方, 習慣, 用法Japanese
- വിനിയോഗംMalayalam
- anvendelse, bruksområde, brukNorwegian
- emprego, usoPortuguese
- использование, применение, употребление, обращение, обыкновение, традиция, привычка, обычайRussian
- विनियोगःSanskrit
- kullanımTurkish
- 用法Chinese
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