Utilities

Definition

use /ju:z / v ( pt, pp used /ju:zd /) ၁။ ~ sth (for sth/ doing sth) ; ~ sth (as sth) အသံုးျပဳသည္။ သံုးသည္။ Do you know how to use a drill? ဒီလြန္ပူမ်ဳိး ကိုင္တတ္သလား။ ❍ May I use your phone? ❍ Use your common sense! ❍ words that are only used in certain contexts ❍ What kind of toothpaste do you use? ❍ A hammer is used for driving in nails. ❍ She uses her unmarried name for professional purposes. ❍ use a saucer as an ashtray ❍We used the money to buy a new car. ❍ They used force to persuade him. ၂။ အသံုးခ်သည္။ ခုတံုးလုပ္သည္။ He felt he'd been used. ❍ She simply used us for her own ends/ to get what she wanted. ❍ He used the bad weather as an excuse for not coming. ၃။ အသံုးျပဳသည္။ သံုးသည္။ Use the milk sparingly, there's not much left. ❍ We only used a gallon of petrol for the journey. See also USED 1,2 , USED TO /ju:s / n ၁။ [U, sing] ~ (of sth) အသံုးျပဳမႈ။ အသံုး။ the use of electricity for heating ❍ an ingenious use of wind power ❍ the use of force ❍ keep sth for one's own use ❍ funds for use in emergencies ❍ a liquid for external use only (ie that must not be swallowed) လိမ္းေဆးသက္သက္(ေသာက္ရန္မဟုတ္)။ ❍ build cabins for use as holiday homes ❍ This car park is for the use of customers only. ၂။ [C,U] အသံုး။ သံုးပံု သံုးနည္း။ a tool with many uses ❍ find a (new) use for sth ❍ the use of language in a legal context. ၃။ [U] ~ (of sth) (က) သံုးခြင့္။ allow a tenant use of the garden ❍ I have the use of the car this week. (ခ) သံုးႏိုင္စြမ္း။ have full use of one's mental faculties ❍ lose the use of one's legs (ie become unable to walk). ၄။ [U] အသံုး က်ျခင္း။ အေၾကာင္းထူးျခင္း။ What's the use of worrying about it? ❍ Its no use pretending you didn't know. ❍ Do you want this old typewriter? It's of no use to me. ၅။ [U] ( fml ) က်င့္သား။ Long use has accustomed me to it. ❏ come into/ go out of use [ IDM ] အသံုးတြင္သည္ (သို႔) ေခတ္ကုန္သြားသည္။ When did this word come into common use? ❍ The city's trams will go out of use next year. ❏ have its/ their/ one's uses [ IDM ] မရိွသံုး သံုးရသည္။ I don't like that cupboard but I suppose it has its uses. ❏ have no use for sb [ IDM ] သည္းမခံ။ လက္မခံ။ I've no use for people who don't try. ❏ have no use for sth [ IDM ] မသံုးေတာ့။ အသံုးမဝင္ေတာ့။ I've no further use for my old cassette player, so you can have it. ❏ I, etc could use sth [ IDM ]( infml ) …ခ်င္လိုက္တာ။ Phew! I could use a drink! ❏ in use [ IDM ] မအားလပ္။ We couldn't play tennis because the courts were all in use. ❏ make use of sth/ sb [ IDM ] အသံုးခ်သည္။ Make full use of every chance you have to speak English. ❍ She has not made good use of her talents. ❏ put sth to good use [ IDM ] အသံုးက်သည္။ He'll be able to put his languages to good use in the new job. ❏ usable /'ju:zǝbl / adj သံုးႏိုင္ေသး[ေသာ]။ The tyres are worn but still usable. ❏ use one's loaf [ IDM ] ( Brit infml ) ကိုယ့္ဦးေႏွာက္ကေလးမ်ား သံုးပါဦး။ Don't keep asking me what to do, use your loaf! ❏ use sth up [ PHRV ] သံုးပစ္သည္။ use up all one's strength/ energy ❍ I've used up all the glue. ❍ She used up the chicken bones to make soup.

Examples

1. Using a computer is so much quicker.
2. What type of soap do you use?
3. Using all his charm
4. he managed to persuade them.
5. [use something for something] : Psychological tests are used for selection purposes.
6. [use something for doing something] : Methane gas is used for heating and generating power.
7. [use something as something] : I had to use a ski as a tent pole.
8. [use something as an excuse/reason] : They used the recession as an excuse to get rid of workers.
9. Only about 30 people regularly use the bus service.
10. You’ve used all the hot water again.
11. Most of that paint was used on the kitchen.
12. You know he’s just using you.
13. [use someone for your own ends] : Liz has always used people for her own ends.
14. Don’t use language like that in front of your little brother.
15. [use something to do something] : McClaren used the same words to describe his feelings.
16. In jail
17. he continued to deal and use drugs.
18. She’s using again.