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Ubiquitous vs Used - What's the difference?

ubiquitous | used |

As adjectives the difference between ubiquitous and used

is that ubiquitous is being everywhere at once: omnipresent while used is that is or has or have been used.

As a verb used is

(use).

ubiquitous

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Being everywhere at once: omnipresent.
  • To Hindus, Jews, Muslims and Christians, God is ubiquitous.
  • Seeming to appear everywhere at the same time.
  • Widespread; very prevalent.
  • Quotations

    * 1851 — *: One of the wild suggestions referred to, as at last coming to be linked with the White Whale in the minds of the superstitiously inclined, was the unearthly conceit that Moby Dick was ubiquitous ; that he had actually been encountered in opposite latitudes at one and the same instant of time. * 1927-1929' — *: I returned to the Ashram. The ubiquitous Chetaskumar was there too.

    Synonyms

    * (being everywhere ): omnipresent * (seeming to appear everywhere at the same time ): ever-present

    Derived terms

    * ubiquitously

    used

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (use)
  • * 1948 , , North from Mexico / The Spanish-Speaking People of The United States , J. B. Lippincott Company, page 75
  • In 1866 Colonel J. F. Meline noted that the rebozo had almost disappeared in Santa Fe and that hoop skirts, on sale in the stores, were being widely used .
    You used me!
  • (intransitive, as an auxiliary verb, now only in past tense) to perform habitually; to be accustomed [to doing something]
  • He used to live here, but moved away last year.

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • That is or has or have been used.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= Boundary problems , passage=Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.}}
  • That has or have previously been owned by someone else.
  • Familiar through use; usual; accustomed.
  • * 1965 , (Bob Dylan), (Like a Rolling Stone)
  • Nobody's ever taught you how to live out on the street and now you're gonna have to get used to it.

    Synonyms

    * (having been used) * (previously owned by someone else) pre-owned, second-hand

    Antonyms

    * (having been used) unused * (previously owned by someone else) new

    Derived terms

    * usedness * well-used

    See also

    * used to

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