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Disposable vs Usage - What's the difference?

disposable | usage |

As adjectives the difference between disposable and usage

is that disposable is that can be disposed of while usage is used.

As a noun disposable

is any object that is designed to be disposed of rather than refilled or repaired.

disposable

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Any object that is designed to be disposed of rather than refilled or repaired.
  • * 2010 , Kathleen Huggins, The Expectant Parents' Companion (page 88)
    • Parents who use cloth diapers often use disposables for travel, nights, or both.

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • That can be disposed of.
  • That is designed to be discarded rather than refilled or repaired.
    • Rather than purchase an expensive razor he bought a packet of cheap disposable ones.
  • Available to be used.

    • Antonyms

    * non-disposable, nondisposable, undisposable, indisposable

    Derived terms

    * disposability * disposable income * disposableness * disposably

    External links

    * (wikipedia "disposable")

    usage

    English

    (wikipedia usage)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The manner or the amount of using; use
  • Habit or accepted practice
  • (lexicography) The ways and contexts in which spoken and written words are used, determined by a lexicographer's intuition or from corpus analysis.
  • # Correct or proper use of language, proclaimed by some authority.
  • # Geographic, social, or temporal restrictions on the use of words.

    • Derived terms

    * usage dictionary * usage guide * usage label * usage lexicography * usage note * usage panel

    References

    * * Sydney I. Landau (2001), Dictionaries: The Art and Craft of Lexicography, 2nd ed., Cambridge University Press, p 217.

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