Contents -AUTHOR INDEX -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922.

Class V. Words Releasing to the Voluntary Powers
Division (I) Individual Volition
Section II. Prospective Volition
3. Precursory Measures

677. Use.

   NOUN:USE, employ; exercise, exercitation; application, appliance; adhibition, disposal; consumption; agency (physical) [See Agency]; usufruct; usefulness [See Utility]; benefit; recourse, resort, avail; pragmatism, pragmaticism.
  [CONVERSION TO USE] utilization, utility, service, wear.
  [WAY OF USING] usage, employment, modus operandi [L.].
  USER, consumer, purchasing public, buying public; market, public demand, popular demand, demand.
   VERB:USE, make use of, employ, put to use; apply; put in -action, – operation, – practice; set in motion, set to work.
  PLY, work, wield, handle, manipulate; play, play off; exert, exercise, practice, avail oneself of, profit by; resort to, lay one’s hand to, fall back upon, have recourse to, recur to, take to [colloq.], take up, betake oneself to; take up with, take advantage of; lay one’s hands on, try.
  RENDER USEFUL [See Utility]; mold or mould; turn to -account, – use; convert to use, utilize; administer; work up; call -, bring- into play; put into requisition; call -, draw- forth; press -, enlist- into the service; task, tax, put to task; bring to bear upon, devote, dedicate, consecrate, apply, adhibit, dispose of; make a handle of, make a cat’s-paw of.
  FALL BACK UPON, make a shift with; make the most of, make the best of.
  CONSUME, use up, devour, swallow up; absorb, expend; wear, outwear.
   ADJECTIVE:IN USE; used &c. v.; well-worn, well-trodden.
  USEFUL [See Utility]; subservient (instrumental) [See Instrumentality]; utilitarian, pragmatic or pragmatical.
   QUOTATION:Busy people are never busybodies.—Cynic’s Calendar