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Usage vs Unbreakable - What's the difference?

usage | unbreakable |

As nouns the difference between usage and unbreakable

is that usage is the manner or the amount of using; use while unbreakable is something that cannot be broken.

As an adjective unbreakable is

difficult to break and therefore able to withstand rough usage.

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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    unbreakable

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • difficult to break and therefore able to withstand rough usage
  • (of a horse) not able to be broken in

    • Antonyms

    *breakable *fragile

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something that cannot be broken.