Use vs Invest - What's the difference?
use | invest |
(archaic) To accustom; to habituate.
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*(John Milton) (1608–1674)
*:Thou with thy compeers, / Used to the yoke, draw'st his triumphant wheels.
To employ; to apply; to utilize.
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, title= To exhaust the supply of; to consume by employing
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To exploit.
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, magazine=(American Scientist), title= (dated) To behave toward; to act with regard to; to treat.
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*(John Milton) (1608–1674)
*:How wouldst thou use me now?
*(Joseph Addison) (1672–1719)
*:Cato has used me ill.
To habitually do; to be wont to do.
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*Bible, 1 (w) iv.9
*:Use hospitality one to another.
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*:Peter Pol'', doctor in divinitie used to sit upon his mule, who as ''Monstrelet'' reporteth, was wont to ride up and downe the streets of ''Paris , ever sitting sideling, as women use .
* 1693 , Sir Norman Knatchbull, Annotations upon some difficult texts in all the books of the New Testament
(past tense with infinitive) To habitually do. See used to.
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(dated) To clothe or wrap (with garments).
* 1851 , Herman Melville, Moby-Dick :
(obsolete) To put on (clothing).
* Spenser
To envelop, wrap, cover.
* 1667': Night / '''Invests the Sea, and wished Morn delayes — John Milton, ''Paradise Lost , Book 1, ll. 207-8
To commit money or capital in the hope of financial gain.
To spend money, time, or energy into something, especially for some benefit or purpose.
To ceremonially install someone in some office.
To formally give (someone) some power or authority.
* Shakespeare
To formally give (power or authority).
* Francis Bacon
To surround, accompany, or attend.
* Hawthorne
To lay siege to.
To make investments.
(metallurgy) To prepare for lost wax casting by creating an investment mold (a mixture of a silica sand and plaster).
(meteorology) An unnamed tropical weather pattern "to investigate" for development into a significant (named) system.
As verbs the difference between use and invest
is that use is while invest is (dated) to clothe or wrap (with garments).As a noun invest is
(meteorology) an unnamed tropical weather pattern "to investigate" for development into a significant (named) system * overuse * reuse * underuse * useful * useless * usement * what’s the useEtymology 2
From (etyl) ).Verb
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- For in the Rites of funeration they did use to anoint the dead body, with Aromatick Spices and Oyntments, before they buried them.
Synonyms
* engage, utilise * (exploit) take advantage ofDerived terms
* abuse * disuse * reuse * misuse * usability * usable * usage * used * used to * useful * userReferences
*Statistics
*invest
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) investir, from (etyl) ; see vest.Verb
(en verb)- He was but shabbily apparelled in faded jacket and patched trowsers; a rag of a black handkerchief investing his neck.
- cannot find one this girdle to invest
- We'd like to thank all the contributors who have invested countless hours into this event.
- I do invest you jointly with my power.
- It investeth a right of government.
- awe such as must always invest the spectacle of the guilt
- to invest a town