Use vs Office - What's the difference?
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The act of using.
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, volume=188, issue=26, page=6, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= Usefulness, benefit.
* Milton
* Alexander Pope
A function; a purpose for which something may be employed.
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, volume=189, issue=7, page=26, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= Occasion or need to employ; necessity.
(obsolete, rare) Interest for lent money; premium paid for the use of something; usury.
* 1599 , (William Shakespeare), (Much Ado About Nothing) ,
* Jeremy Taylor
(archaic) Continued or repeated practice; usage; habit.
* Spenser
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) Common occurrence; ordinary experience.
* Shakespeare
(religion) The special form of ritual adopted for use in any diocese.
* Book of Common Prayer
(forging) A slab of iron welded to the side of a forging, such as a shaft, near the end, and afterward drawn down, by hammering, so as to lengthen the forging.
(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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A building or room where clerical or professional duties are performed.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=2
, passage=We drove back to the office with some concern on my part at the prospect of so large a case. Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. He was dressed out in broad gaiters and bright tweeds, like an English tourist, and his face might have belonged to Dagon, idol of the Philistines.}}
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*:There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy.Passengers wander restlessly about or hurry, with futile energy, from place to place. Pushing men hustle each other at the windows of the purser's office , under pretence of expecting letters or despatching telegrams.
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, title= A bureau, an administrative unit of government.
A position of responsibility of some authority within an organisation.
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A charge or trust; a function.
*(Bible), (w) xi. 13
*:Inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify mine office .
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:They [the eyes] resign their office and their light.
*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:Hesperus, whose office is to bring / Twilight upon the earth.
*(Isaac Newton) (1642-1727)
*:In this experiment the several intervals of the teeth of the comb do the office of so many prisms.
Rite, ceremonial observance of social or religious nature.
Religious service, especially a liturgy officiated by a Christian priest or minister.
*(John Evelyn) (1620-1706)
*:This morning was read in the church, after the office was done, the declaration setting forth the late conspiracy against the king's person.
A major administrative division, notably in certain governmental administrations, either at ministry level (e.g. the British Home Office) or within or dependent on such a department.
(lb) That which a person does, either voluntarily or by appointment, for, or with reference to, others; customary duty, or a duty that arises from human relations.
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*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:I would I could do a good office between you.
*Doctrine and Covenants 25: 5
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*1813 , (Jane Austen), (Pride and Prejudice) , Modern Library Edition (1995), p.144
*:there I readily engaged in the office of pointing out to my friend the certain evils of such a choice.
(lb) The parts of a house given over to household work, storage etc.
*(Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)
*:As for the offices , let them stand at distance.
*1887 , Sir (Arthur Conan Doyle), (A Study in Scarlet) , III:
*:A short passage, bare planked and dusty, led to the kitchen and offices .
An office suite; a collection of work?related computer programs (shortened from several such suites with 'office' in their name).
Use is a related term of office.
As a verb use
is .As a noun office is
a building or room where clerical or professional duties are performed.use
English
(wikipedia use)Alternative forms
* (archaic)Etymology 1
From (etyl) from Old English nytt.Noun
(en noun)Ed Pilkington
‘Killer robots’ should be banned in advance, UN told, passage=In his submission to the UN, [Christof] Heyns points to the experience of drones. Unmanned aerial vehicles were intended initially only for surveillance, and their use for offensive purposes was prohibited, yet once strategists realised their perceived advantages as a means of carrying out targeted killings, all objections were swept out of the way.}}
- God made two great lights, great for their use / To man.
- 'Tis use alone that sanctifies expense.
How algorithms rule the world, passage=The use of algorithms in policing is one example of their increasing influence on our lives. And, as their ubiquity spreads, so too does the debate around whether we should allow ourselves to become so reliant on them – and who, if anyone, is policing their use.}}
- I have no further use for these textbooks.
- DON PEDRO. Come, lady, come; you have lost the heart of Signior Benedick.
- BEATRICE. Indeed, my lord, he lent it me awhile; and I gave him use for it, a double heart for a single one: [...]
- Thou art more obliged to pay duty and tribute, use and principal, to him.
- Let later age that noble use envy.
- How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable, / Seem to me all the uses of this world!
- O Caesar! these things are beyond all use .
- the Sarum, or Canterbury, use'''; the Hereford '''use'''; the York '''use'''; the Roman '''use ; etc.
- From henceforth all the whole realm shall have but one use .
Synonyms
* (act of using) employment, usage, note, nait * (usefulness) benefit, good, point, usefulness, utility, note, naitDerived terms
* disuse * fair use * hyper-use * misuse * no use * overuse * reuse * underuse * useful * useless * usement * what’s the useEtymology 2
From (etyl) ).Verb
(us)David Van Tassel], [http://www.americanscientist.org/authors/detail/lee-dehaan Lee DeHaan
Wild Plants to the Rescue, volume=101, issue=3, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Plant breeding is always a numbers game.
Katie L. Burke
In the News, passage=Oxygen levels on Earth skyrocketed 2.4 billion years ago, when cyanobacteria evolved photosynthesis: the ability to convert water and carbon dioxide into carbohydrates and waste oxygen using solar energy.}}
- 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
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Noun
(en noun)Revenge of the nerds, passage=Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suited men in towering skyscrapers. Its future, however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York and London, where bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching on free food.}}
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