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utilize
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1794, from French utiliser , from Italian utilizzare , from utile "usable," from Latin utilis "usable," from uti (see use (v.)).\n\n Utilize is fast antiquating improve , in the sense of 'turn to account.' [Fitzedward Hall, "Modern English," 1873]
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN skill ▪ They also found that on their return many women were unable to utilize the skills that they had acquired before having children. ▪ Not only lack of skill , but lack of opportunity to utilize those skills, depressed ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Utilize \U"til*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Utilized ; p. pr. & vb. n. Utilizing .] [Cf. F. utiliser.] To make useful; to turn to profitable account or use; to make use of; as, to utilize the whole power of a machine; to utilize one's opportunities. In ...
Usage examples of utilize.
The academicism of the Right does not even acknowledge a misery that the academicism of the Left utilizes for ulterior reasons.
He tried again and again to get Scott to talk about his idea for utilizing some of the Overhulse acreage to build clean but cheap housing.
Each frame utilized one of the pictures in order to give the advertiser an idea as to what the finished commercial will look like.
Moreover, the Warburgs had ample opportunity to release such an affidavit with wide publicity without utilizing neo-Nazi channels.
I brought with me eight thousand livres in fair sequins, and knowing that in this happy commonwealth all men enjoyed the blessings of liberty, I believed that by utilizing my capital I might make a little income, and I began to lend money, on security.
Ramapithecus fashioned tools, were bipedal with erect posture, and probably utilized the implements for hunting.
I remember the histories right, since the serum was discovered that enabled the Cetacea to utilize all of their enormous brains.
Modrid disallowed the trades you had completed at the word of your master trader--for which you utilized monies drawn on her accredited and known apprentice sub-account--and that he required the master trader to re-authorize each transaction recorded under that sub-account.
Daniel ran the isolated shroud DNA fragments through the PCR several more times before utilizing his dopaminergic gene probes.
He launched into his own interpretation of the mass chanting below, utilizing the duar at maximum volume and trying to sing the improvised song with as much grace and clarity as an Ozzy Osbourne.
I should have been glad to have utilized your services at once, and only hope that you will erelong rejoin us.
State laws may impinge upon persons or corporations whose services are utilized by Congress in executing its postal powers, the task of the Supreme Court has been to determine whether particular measures are consistent with the general policies indicated by Congress.
This piece of steel, after having been tempered, was fixed in as firm a way as possible in a solid framework planted in the ground, only a few feet from the great fall, the motive power of which the engineer intended to utilize.
Cyrus Harding could have utilized the second fall which flowed into the Mercy to establish his motive power, the first being already occupied with moving the felting mill, but, after some consultation, it was decided that a simple windmill should be built on Prospect Heights.
A simple synthesis utilizing lithium aluminum hydride is presented in this report.