Used vs Become - What's the difference?
used | become |
(use)
* 1948 , , North from Mexico / The Spanish-Speaking People of The United States , J. B. Lippincott Company, page 75
(intransitive, as an auxiliary verb, now only in past tense) to perform habitually; to be accustomed [to doing something]
That is or has or have been used.
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, title= That has or have previously been owned by someone else.
Familiar through use; usual; accustomed.
* 1965 , (Bob Dylan), (Like a Rolling Stone)
(obsolete) To arrive, come (to a place).
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*:& thenne the noble knyghte sire Launcelot departed with ryghte heuy chere sodenly / that none erthely creature wyste of hym / nor where he was become / but sir Bors
*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
*:But, madam, where is Warwick then become ?
(copulative) To come about; happen; come into being; arise.
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(copulative) begin to be; turn into.
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, passage=The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again; for, even after she had conquered her love for the Celebrity, the mortification of having been jilted by him remained.}}
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, title= To be proper for; to befit.
*1930 , (Duff Cooper), Talleyrand , Folio Society, 2010, p.7:
*:His ordinationenabled him to be independent of his parents, and to afford a manner of living which became his rank rather than his calling.
Of an adornment, piece of clothing etc.: to look attractive on (someone).
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As verbs the difference between used and become
is that used is (use) while become is (obsolete) to arrive, come (to a place).As an adjective used
is that is or has or have been used.used
English
Verb
(head)- In 1866 Colonel J. F. Meline noted that the rebozo had almost disappeared in Santa Fe and that hoop skirts, on sale in the stores, were being widely used .
- You used me!
- He used to live here, but moved away last year.
Adjective
(en adjective)Boundary problems, passage=Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.}}
- Nobody's ever taught you how to live out on the street and now you're gonna have to get used to it.
Synonyms
* (having been used) * (previously owned by someone else) pre-owned, second-handAntonyms
* (having been used) unused * (previously owned by someone else) newDerived terms
* usedness * well-usedSee also
* used toStatistics
*Anagrams
* English heteronymsbecome
English
Verb
Sunderland 0-1 Man Utd, passage=Then, as the Sunderland fans' cheers bellowed around the stadium, United's title bid was over when it became apparent City had pinched a last-gasp winner to seal their first title in 44 years.}}
William E. Conner
An Acoustic Arms Race, volume=101, issue=3, page=206-7, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Earless ghost swift moths become “invisible” to echolocating bats by forming mating clusters close (less than half a meter) above vegetation and effectively blending into the clutter of echoes that the bat receives from the leaves and stems around them.}}