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Usage vs Roadworn - What's the difference?

usage | roadworn |

As adjectives the difference between usage and roadworn

is that usage is used while roadworn is worn out by long travel on roads, or (figurative) in a damaged or depleted state due to constant or prolonged usage or exertion.

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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    roadworn

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Worn out by long travel on roads, or (figurative) in a damaged or depleted state due to constant or prolonged usage or exertion.
  • * 2001 , Mark Anthony, The Dark Remains , Bantam Spectra (2001), ISBN 0553579355, page 10:
    • Now that they were close, Lirith could see the vehicles were more than a little roadworn : wood cracked, gilt peeled, and dust flecked sun-faded paint.
  • * 2003 , James Francis Warren, Rickshaw Coolie: A People's History of Singapore, 1880-1940 , Singapore University Press (2003), ISBN 997169266X, page 275:
    • When he was just beyond the house Kwan Moh Kia dropped down between the shafts, on that March afternoon in 1906, when his aorta exploded like a roadworn tyre.
  • * 2011 , Elizabeth C. Bunce, Liar's Moon , Arthur A. Levine Books (2011), ISBN 9780545136082, page 192:
    • He looked roadworn and weary, but intact and as robust as I remembered him, considering his injury.

    See also

    * wayworn