Occasion vs Use - What's the difference?
occasion | use | Synonyms |
A favorable opportunity; a convenient or timely chance.
* Bible, Rom. vii. 11
* Waller
The time when something happens.
*, chapter=13
, title= An occurrence or state of affairs which causes some event or reaction; a motive or reason.
Something which causes something else; a cause.
* 1624 , John Smith, Generall Historie , in Kupperman 1988, p. 130:
(obsolete) An occurrence or incident.
A particular happening; an instance or time when something occurred.
*{{quote-news, year=2013, date=April 9, author=Andrei Lankov, title=Stay Cool. Call North Korea’s Bluff., work=New York Times
, passage=In the last two decades, North Korea has on various occasions conducted highly provocative missile and nuclear tests and promised to turn Seoul into a sea of fire. }}
Need; requirement, necessity.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=2
, passage=I had occasion […] to make a somewhat long business trip to Chicago, and on my return […] I found Farrar awaiting me in the railway station. He smiled his wonted fraction by way of greeting, […], and finally leading me to his buggy, turned and drove out of town. I was completely mystified at such an unusual proceeding.}}
* Jeremy Taylor
* Burke
A special event or function.
A reason or excuse; a motive; a persuasion.
* Spenser
To give occasion to; to cause; to produce; to induce; as, to occasion anxiety.
The act of using.
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, volume=188, issue=26, page=6, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= Usefulness, benefit.
* Milton
* Alexander Pope
A function; a purpose for which something may be employed.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-26, author=(Leo Hickman)
, volume=189, issue=7, page=26, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= Occasion or need to employ; necessity.
(obsolete, rare) Interest for lent money; premium paid for the use of something; usury.
* 1599 , (William Shakespeare), (Much Ado About Nothing) ,
* Jeremy Taylor
(archaic) Continued or repeated practice; usage; habit.
* Spenser
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) Common occurrence; ordinary experience.
* Shakespeare
(religion) The special form of ritual adopted for use in any diocese.
* Book of Common Prayer
(forging) A slab of iron welded to the side of a forging, such as a shaft, near the end, and afterward drawn down, by hammering, so as to lengthen the forging.
(archaic) To accustom; to habituate.
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*(John Milton) (1608–1674)
*:Thou with thy compeers, / Used to the yoke, draw'st his triumphant wheels.
To employ; to apply; to utilize.
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, title= To exhaust the supply of; to consume by employing
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To exploit.
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, magazine=(American Scientist), title= (dated) To behave toward; to act with regard to; to treat.
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*(John Milton) (1608–1674)
*:How wouldst thou use me now?
*(Joseph Addison) (1672–1719)
*:Cato has used me ill.
To habitually do; to be wont to do.
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*Bible, 1 (w) iv.9
*:Use hospitality one to another.
*, I.48:
*:Peter Pol'', doctor in divinitie used to sit upon his mule, who as ''Monstrelet'' reporteth, was wont to ride up and downe the streets of ''Paris , ever sitting sideling, as women use .
* 1693 , Sir Norman Knatchbull, Annotations upon some difficult texts in all the books of the New Testament
(past tense with infinitive) To habitually do. See used to.
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Occasion is a synonym of use.
As verbs the difference between occasion and use
is that occasion is to give occasion to; to cause; to produce; to induce; as, to occasion anxiety while use is .As a noun occasion
is a favorable opportunity; a convenient or timely chance.occasion
English
Noun
(en noun)- Sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me.
- I'll take the occasion which he gives to bring / Him to his death.
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes. He said that if you wanted to do anything for them, you must rule them, not pamper them.}}
- it were too vile to say, and scarce to be beleeved, what we endured: but the occasion was our owne, for want of providence, industrie and government [...].
citation
- after we have served ourselves and our own occasions
- when my occasions took me into France
- Whose manner was, all passengers to stay, / And entertain with her occasions sly.
Verb
(en verb)- it is seen that the mental changes are occasioned by a change of polarity
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(wikipedia use)Alternative forms
* (archaic)Etymology 1
From (etyl) from Old English nytt.Noun
(en noun)Ed Pilkington
‘Killer robots’ should be banned in advance, UN told, passage=In his submission to the UN, [Christof] Heyns points to the experience of drones. Unmanned aerial vehicles were intended initially only for surveillance, and their use for offensive purposes was prohibited, yet once strategists realised their perceived advantages as a means of carrying out targeted killings, all objections were swept out of the way.}}
- God made two great lights, great for their use / To man.
- 'Tis use alone that sanctifies expense.
How algorithms rule the world, passage=The use of algorithms in policing is one example of their increasing influence on our lives. And, as their ubiquity spreads, so too does the debate around whether we should allow ourselves to become so reliant on them – and who, if anyone, is policing their use.}}
- I have no further use for these textbooks.
- DON PEDRO. Come, lady, come; you have lost the heart of Signior Benedick.
- BEATRICE. Indeed, my lord, he lent it me awhile; and I gave him use for it, a double heart for a single one: [...]
- Thou art more obliged to pay duty and tribute, use and principal, to him.
- Let later age that noble use envy.
- How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable, / Seem to me all the uses of this world!
- O Caesar! these things are beyond all use .
- the Sarum, or Canterbury, use'''; the Hereford '''use'''; the York '''use'''; the Roman '''use ; etc.
- From henceforth all the whole realm shall have but one use .
Synonyms
* (act of using) employment, usage, note, nait * (usefulness) benefit, good, point, usefulness, utility, note, naitDerived terms
* disuse * fair use * hyper-use * misuse * no use * overuse * reuse * underuse * useful * useless * usement * what’s the useEtymology 2
From (etyl) ).Verb
(us)David Van Tassel], [http://www.americanscientist.org/authors/detail/lee-dehaan Lee DeHaan
Wild Plants to the Rescue, volume=101, issue=3, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Plant breeding is always a numbers game.
Katie L. Burke
In the News, passage=Oxygen levels on Earth skyrocketed 2.4 billion years ago, when cyanobacteria evolved photosynthesis: the ability to convert water and carbon dioxide into carbohydrates and waste oxygen using solar energy.}}
- For in the Rites of funeration they did use to anoint the dead body, with Aromatick Spices and Oyntments, before they buried them.