Resort vs Use - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between resort and use

is that resort is to have recourse (to), now especially from necessity or frustration or resort can be to repeat a sorting process; sort again while use is .

As a noun resort

is a place where people go for recreation, especially one with facilities]] such as [[lodging|lodgings, entertainment, and a relaxing environment or resort can be an act of sorting again or resort can be (obsolete) active power or movement; spring.

resort

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)

A place where people go for recreation, especially one with facilities]] such as [[lodging, lodgings, entertainment, and a relaxing environment.

Recourse, refuge (something or someone turned to for safety).

to have resort to violence

* Shakespeare

Join with me to forbid him her resort .

(obsolete) A place where one goes habitually; a haunt.

* Milton

far from all resort of mirth

Verb

(en verb)

To have recourse (to), now especially from necessity or frustration.

* Clarendon

The king thought it time to resort to other counsels.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2012-01

, author=Stephen Ledoux , title=Behaviorism at 100 , volume=100, issue=1, page=60 , magazine= citation , passage=Becoming more aware of the progress that scientists have made on behavioral fronts can reduce the risk that other natural scientists will resort to mystical agential accounts when they exceed the limits of their own disciplinary training.}}

To fall back; to revert.

* Sir M. Hale

The inheritance of the son never resorted to the mother, or to any of her ancestors.

To make one's way, go (to).

* 1526 , William Tyndale, trans. Bible , Matthew XIII:

The same daye went Jesus out off the housse, and sat by the seesyde, and moch people resorted unto him, so gretly that he went and sat in a shyppe, and all the people stode on the shoore.

Derived terms

* last resort

Etymology 2

Verb

(en verb)

to repeat a sorting process; sort again

Noun

(en noun)

An act of sorting again.

* 1991, Dr. Dobb's journal: software tools for the professional programmer , Volume 16:

"If further sorting is required, begin anew with opcode = 0. opcode = -3 may be set to build an index file following an initial sort with opcode set to 0, or a resort with opcode set to -1.

Etymology 3

(etyl) ressort.

Noun

(en noun)

(obsolete) Active power or movement; spring.

* Francis Bacon

Some know the resorts and falls of business that cannot sink into the main of it.

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use

English

(wikipedia use)

Alternative forms

* (archaic)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) from Old English nytt.

Noun

(en noun)

The act of using.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author= Ed Pilkington

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Usefulness, benefit.

* Milton

God made two great lights, great for their use / To man.

* Alexander Pope

'Tis use alone that sanctifies expense.

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= 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.}}

Occasion or need to employ; necessity.

I have no further use for these textbooks.

(obsolete, rare) Interest for lent money; premium paid for the use of something; usury.

* 1599 , (William Shakespeare), (Much Ado About Nothing) ,

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: [...]

* Jeremy Taylor

Thou art more obliged to pay duty and tribute, use and principal, to him.

(archaic) Continued or repeated practice; usage; habit.

* Spenser

Let later age that noble use envy.

* Shakespeare

How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable, / Seem to me all the uses of this world!

(obsolete) Common occurrence; ordinary experience.

* Shakespeare

O Caesar! these things are beyond all use .

(religion) The special form of ritual adopted for use in any diocese.

the Sarum, or Canterbury, use'''; the Hereford '''use'''; the York '''use'''; the Roman '''use ; etc.

* Book of Common Prayer

From henceforth all the whole realm shall have but one use .

(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.

Synonyms

* (act of using) employment, usage, note, nait * (usefulness) benefit, good, point, usefulness, utility, note, nait

Derived terms

* disuse * fair use * hyper-use * misuse * no use * overuse * reuse * underuse * useful * useless * usement * what’s the use

Etymology 2

From (etyl) ).

Verb

(us)

(archaic) To accustom; to habituate.

*(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= Wild Plants to the Rescue , volume=101, issue=3, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Plant breeding is always a numbers game.

To exhaust the supply of; to consume by employing

To exploit.

*{{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=September-October, author= Katie L. Burke

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(dated) To behave toward; to act with regard to; to treat.

*(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.

*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

For in the Rites of funeration they did use to anoint the dead body, with Aromatick Spices and Oyntments, before they buried them.

(past tense with infinitive) To habitually do. See used to.

Synonyms

* engage, utilise * (exploit) take advantage of

Derived terms

* abuse * disuse * reuse * misuse * usability * usable * usage * used * used to * useful * user

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