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单词 use
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verb | noun
useuse1 /yuz/ verb 1 to use something for a particular purpose► use
if you use something, you do something with it for a particular purpose:
  • Can I use your phone to call my mother?
  • Let’s use these old rags to wash the car.
    • ➔ Use is often used when talking about how much of something you use: We use about a gallon of milk each week. | The new light bulbs use less energy and last longer.
    ► make use of
    to use something that is available in order to achieve something:
  • Make use of the library to research your report.
    • ► employ (formal)
    to use a particular method or skill in order to achieve something:
  • The methods that teachers employ in the classroom are very different today from how teachers taught 50 years ago.
    • ► utilize AWL (formal)
    to use something for a particular purpose. Utilize sounds a little bit technical, and people usually choose use in everyday English:
  • The company has developed a new way to utilize solar energy.
    • ► consume AWL (formal)
    to use oil, energy, water, and other natural resources. Consume is used especially to talk about the amount of natural resources that people as a group use:
  • The U.S. imports 45% of the oil that it consumes.
    • ► exploit AWL
    to use something as completely and effectively as possible:
  • The business will exploit the Internet to advertise and sell its products.
    • ➔ Exploit can also mean "to use someone or something in an unfair way": The farm workers were exploited by landowners, who forced them to work long hours for little pay.
    ► take advantage of
    to use an opportunity in order to do what you want or need to do:
  • You should take advantage of the warm weather by taking your lunch to the park.
    • 2 to use all of something, so there is none left► use up
    to use all of something so that there is none left:
  • She took a shower and used up all the hot water.
    • ► exhaust (formal)
    to use up all of something, especially a supply of something when it will be difficult to get more of it:
  • What will happen when we have exhausted the world’s oil supply?
    • ► run out
    if something runs out, or you run out of something, there is none left because you have used it all:
  • I have some money you can borrow if you run out.
  • We have run out of milk again. I’ll buy some more when we go to the supermarket.
    •  ➔ see take advantage of for use meaning “to use a person in an unfair way”
    verb | noun
    useuse2 /yus/ noun ► use
    the act of using something, or the way in which it is used:
  • The use of smart phones has increased rapidly.
  • The drug has been approved for use in treating cancer.
    • ► usage
    the amount of something that is used, or the act of using something:
  • The meter measures water usage.
  • The usage of computers in businesses increased rapidly in the 1990s.
    • ➔ Usage can also be used to talk about the way people use words in a language: Can you explain the correct usage of “whom”?
    ► utilization (formal)
    the act of using something for a particular purpose:
  • We want to encourage the utilization of wind and solar power.
    • ► consumption AWL (formal)
    the amount of oil, energy, water, or other natural resources that people use, or the act of using oil, gas, water, etc.:
  • The company managed to cut its energy consumption by 20%.
  • The amount of oil that is imported for domestic consumption has increased (=the oil imported for use in a country has increased).
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