Uses Synonyms and Antonyms

(psychology) an automatic pattern of behavior in reaction to a specific situation; may be inherited or acquired through frequent repetition
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. habits
  2. wonts
  3. practices
  4. praxes
  5. ways
  6. usages
  7. manners
  8. customs
What something is used for
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. services
  2. applications
  3. advantages
  4. utilities
  5. manipulations
  6. purposes
  7. steads
  8. merits
  9. practices
  10. profits
  11. employments
  12. needs
  13. values
  14. necessities
  15. duties
  16. avails
  17. worths
  18. functions
  19. dispositions
  20. usages
  21. traditions
  22. aid
  23. prescriptions
  24. conveniences
  25. excellences
  26. efficacies
  27. customs
  28. roles
The quality of being suitable or adaptable to an end
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. utilities
  2. profits
  3. avails
  4. accounts
  5. advantages
  6. benefits
To make a practice of; now only in the past tense with an infinitive
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. practices
  2. doth
To behave toward
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. manages
  2. runs
  3. handles
  4. works
  5. operates
Take or consume (regularly or habitually)
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. habituates
  2. expends
  3. presumes
  4. abuses
  5. exploits
  6. imposes
Antonyms:
  1. abstains
A quantity consumed
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. consumptions
  2. usages
(law) the exercise of the legal right to enjoy the benefits of owning property
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. enjoyments
(economics) the utilization of economic goods to satisfy needs or in manufacturing
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. consumptions

Uses Sentence Examples

  • You will see from her letter that she uses many pronouns correctly.

  • Nearly everyone uses ball point pens.

  • I recently gained access to this database that the company's owner uses.

  • Huygens (Descriptio automati planetarii, 1703) uses the simple continued fraction for the purpose of approximation when designing the toothed wheels of his Planetarium.

  • She had been familiar with most herbs and their uses since she was a child, due to her father's business, but she had never actually seen the herbs growing.

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