usability | (noun) the quality of being able to provide good service | Synonyms: serviceability, serviceableness, usableness, useableness |
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usable | (adjective) convenient for use or disposal | Synonyms: available, useable |
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(adjective) fit or ready for use or service | Synonyms: functional, operable, operational, useable |
(adjective) capable of being put to use | Synonyms: useable |
usableness | (noun) the quality of being able to provide good service | Synonyms: serviceability, serviceableness, usability, useableness |
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usage | (noun) the act of using | Synonyms: employment, exercise, use, utilisation, utilization |
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(noun) accepted or habitual practice | Synonyms: custom, usance |
(noun) the customary manner in which a language (or a form of a language) is spoken or written | - |
usance | (noun) accepted or habitual practice | Synonyms: custom, usage |
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(noun) (economics) the utilization of economic goods to satisfy needs or in manufacturing | Synonyms: consumption, economic consumption, use, use of goods and services |
(noun) the period of time permitted by commercial usage for the payment of a bill of exchange (especially a foreign bill of exchange) | - |
use | (noun) the act of using | Synonyms: employment, exercise, usage, utilisation, utilization |
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(noun) (psychology) an automatic pattern of behavior in reaction to a specific situation; may be inherited or acquired through frequent repetition | Synonyms: habit |
(noun) exerting shrewd or devious influence especially for one's own advantage | Synonyms: manipulation |
(noun) what something is used for | Synonyms: function, purpose, role |
(noun) a particular service | - |
(noun) (law) the exercise of the legal right to enjoy the benefits of owning property | Synonyms: enjoyment |
(noun) (economics) the utilization of economic goods to satisfy needs or in manufacturing | Synonyms: consumption, economic consumption, usance, use of goods and services |
(verb) put into service; make work or employ for a particular purpose or for its inherent or natural purpose | Synonyms: apply, employ, utilise, utilize |
(verb) take or consume (regularly or habitually) | Synonyms: habituate |
(verb) use up (resources or materials) | Synonyms: consume, deplete, eat, eat up, exhaust, expend, run through, use up, wipe out |
(verb) habitually do something or be in a certain state or place (use only in the past tense) | - |
(verb) avail oneself to | Synonyms: apply, practice |
(verb) seek or achieve an end by using to one's advantage | - |
useable | (adjective) convenient for use or disposal | Synonyms: available, usable |
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(adjective) fit or ready for use or service | Synonyms: functional, operable, operational, usable |
(adjective) capable of being put to use | Synonyms: usable |
useableness | (noun) the quality of being able to provide good service | Synonyms: serviceability, serviceableness, usability, usableness |
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used | (adjective) employed in accomplishing something | - |
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(adjective) previously used or owned by another | Synonyms: secondhand |
(adjective) (of persons) taken advantage of | Synonyms: exploited, ill-used, put-upon, victimised, victimized |
useful | (adjective) being of use or service | Synonyms: utile |
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(adjective) having a useful function | Synonyms: utilitarian |
usefully | (adverb) in a useful manner | - |
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usefulness | (noun) the quality of being of practical use | Synonyms: utility |
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useless | (adjective) having no beneficial use or incapable of functioning usefully | - |
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uselessly | (adverb) in a useless manner | - |
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uselessness | (noun) the quality of having no practical use | Synonyms: inutility, unusefulness |
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user | (noun) a person who makes use of a thing; someone who uses or employs something | - |
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(noun) a person who uses something or someone selfishly or unethically | Synonyms: exploiter |
(noun) a person who takes drugs | Synonyms: drug user, substance abuser |
usher | (noun) someone employed to conduct others | Synonyms: guide |
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(noun) an official stationed at the entrance of a courtroom or legislative chamber | Synonyms: doorkeeper |
(verb) take (someone) to their seats, as in theaters or auditoriums | Synonyms: show |
usherette | (noun) a female usher | - |
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using | (noun) an act that exploits or victimizes someone (treats them unfairly) | Synonyms: exploitation, victimisation, victimization |
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usual | (adjective) occurring or encountered or experienced or observed frequently or in accordance with regular practice or procedure | - |
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(adjective) commonly encountered | Synonyms: common |
usually | (adverb) under normal conditions | Synonyms: commonly, normally, ordinarily, unremarkably |
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usualness | (noun) commonness by virtue of not being unusual | - |
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usufruct | (noun) a legal right to use and derive profit from property belonging to someone else provided that the property itself is not injured in any way | - |
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usufructuary | (adjective) of or relating to the nature of a usufruct | - |
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(noun) someone who holds property by usufruct | - |
usurer | (noun) someone who lends money at excessive rates of interest | Synonyms: loan shark, moneylender, shylock |
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usurious | (adjective) greatly exceeding bounds of reason or moderation | Synonyms: exorbitant, extortionate, outrageous, steep, unconscionable |
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usuriously | (adverb) to an exorbitant degree | Synonyms: exorbitantly, extortionately |
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usurp | (verb) seize and take control without authority and possibly with force; take as one's right or possession | Synonyms: arrogate, assume, seize, take over |
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(verb) take the place of | - |
usurpation | (noun) wrongfully seizing and holding (an office or powers) by force (especially the seizure of a throne or supreme authority) | - |
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(noun) entry to another's property without right or permission | Synonyms: encroachment, intrusion, trespass, violation |
usurper | (noun) one who wrongfully or illegally seizes and holds the place of another | Synonyms: supplanter |
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usury | (noun) the act of lending money at an exorbitant rate of interest | - |
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(noun) an exorbitant or unlawful rate of interest | Synonyms: vigorish |