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Usage vs Importance - What's the difference?

usage | importance |

As an adjective usage

is used.

As a noun importance is

the quality or condition of being important or worthy of note.

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.

    Anagrams

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    importance

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The quality or condition of being important or worthy of note
  • significance or prominence
  • personal status or standing