Occupy vs Use - What's the difference?
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(label) To take or use time.
# To fill time.
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# To possess or use the time or capacity of; to engage the service of.
# To fill or hold (an official position or role).
# To hold the attention of.
(label) To take or use space.
# To fill space.
# To live or reside in.
#* (Washington Irving) (1783-1859)
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# (military) To have, or to have taken, possession or control of (a territory).
#* 1940 , in The China monthly review , volumes 94-95, page 370 [http://books.google.com/books?id=QqkTAAAAIAAJ&q=%22occupy+but+cannot+hold%22&dq=%22occupy+but+cannot+hold%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=OB6HT4_zC4e68ASF1-jNCA&ved=0CDQQ6AEwAA]:
#* 1975 , Esmé Cecil Wingfield-Stratford, King Charles and King Pym, 1637-1643 , page 330 [http://books.google.com/books?ei=ex2HT9-GK5D69gTJqNjdCA&id=VCwqAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22occupied+but+could+not+hold%22&q=%22occupied+but+could%22#search_anchor]:
#* 1983 , Arthur Keppel-Jones, Rhodes and Rhodesia: The White Conquest of Zimbabwe, 1884-1902 , page 462:
#* 1991 , Werner Spies, John William Gabriel, Max Ernst collages: the invention of the surrealist universe , page 333:
#* 2006 , John Michael Francis, Iberia and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History , page 496:
# (surveying) To place the theodolite or total station at (a point).
(obsolete) To have sexual intercourse with.Sidney J. Baker, The Australian Language , second edition, 1966.
* 1590s , (William Shakespeare), ,
* 1867 , (Robert Nares) A Glossary
*:: These villains will make the word captain, as odious as the word occupy''. ''2 Hen. IV , ii, 4.
*:: Groyne, come of age, his state sold out of hand
*:: For 's whore; Groyne still doth occupy'' his land. ''B. Jons. Epigr. , 117.
*:: Many, out of their own obscene apprehensions, refuse proper and fit words, as occupy'', nature, and the like. ''Ibid., Discoveries , vol. vii, p. 119.
(obsolete) To do business in; to busy oneself with.
* Bible, (w) xxvii. 9
* 1551 , (in Latin), 1516
(obsolete) To use; to expend; to make use of.
* Bible, (w) xxxviii. 24
* 1551 , (in Latin), 1516
The act of using.
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, 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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Occupy is a related term of use.
As verbs the difference between occupy and use
is that occupy is (label) to take or use time while use is .occupy
English
Verb
(en-verb)- The better apartments were already occupied .
- With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it occupied ; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound conclusions. Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get
- The Japanese can occupy but cannot hold, and what they can hold they cannot hold long, was the opinion of General Pai Chung-hsi, Chief of the General Staff of the Chinese Army,
- Rupert, with his usual untamable energy, was scouring the country — but at first in the wrong direction, that of Aylesbury, another keypoint in the outer ring of Oxford defences, which he occupied but could not hold.
- One of the rebel marksmen, who had taken up position on a boulder, was knocked off it by the recoil of his weapon every time he fired. Again the attack achieved nothing. Positions were occupied , but could not be held.
- Germany occupied France for three years while France struggled to make payments that were a condition of surrender.
- Spain occupied , but could not populate, and its failure to expand Florida led Britain to consider the peninsula a logical extension of its colonial holdings.
II.iv
- God's light, these villains will make the word as odious as the word 'occupy ;' which was an excellent good word before it was ill sorted
- OCCUPY, [sensu obsc.] To possess, or enjoy.
- It is so used also in Rowley's New Wonder, Anc. Dr., v, 278.
- All the ships of the sea, with their mariners, were in thee to occupy the merchandise.
- not able to occupy their old crafts
- all the gold that was occupied for the work
- They occupy not money themselves.
Synonyms
* (to possess or use the time or capacity of) employ, busyDerived terms
* occupier * occupationSee also
*References
*External links
* *use
English
(wikipedia use)Alternative forms
* (archaic)Etymology 1
From (etyl) from Old English nytt.Noun
(en noun)Ed Pilkington
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- 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
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- For in the Rites of funeration they did use to anoint the dead body, with Aromatick Spices and Oyntments, before they buried them.