Usage vs Utility - What's the difference?
usage | utility |
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.
The state or condition of being useful; usefulness.
Something that is useful.
(economics) The ability of a commodity to satisfy needs or wants; the satisfaction experienced by the consumer of that commodity.
(business, finance) A service provider, such as an electric company or water company; or , the securities of such a provider.
(computing) A software program designed to perform a single task or a small range of tasks, often to help manage and tune computer hardware, an operating system or application software.
(sports) The ability to play multiple positions.
As an adjective usage
is used.As a noun utility is
the state or condition of being useful; usefulness.usage
English
(wikipedia usage)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* usage dictionary * usage guide * usage label * usage lexicography * usage note * usage panelReferences
* * Sydney I. Landau (2001), Dictionaries: The Art and Craft of Lexicography, 2nd ed., Cambridge University Press, p 217.Anagrams
* ----utility
English
Noun
(utilities)- I've bought a new disk utility that can recover deleted files.