<p><strong>Verb (used with object):</strong></p><ul><li>to employ for some purpose; put into service; make use of: to use a knife</li><li>to avail oneself of; apply to one's own purposes: to use the facilities</li><li>to expend or consume in use: We have used the money provided</li><li>to treat or behave toward: He did not use his employees with much consideration</li><li>to take unfair advantage of; exploit: to use people to gain one's own ends</li><li>to drink, smoke, or ingest habitually: to use drugs</li><li>to habituate or accustom</li><li>to practice habitually or customarily; make a practice of</li></ul><p><strong>Verb (used without object):</strong></p><ul><li>to be accustomed or customarily found: He used to go every day</li></ul><p><strong>Noun:</strong></p><ul><li>the act of employing, using, or putting into service: the use of tools</li><li>the state of being employed or used</li><li>an instance or way of employing or using something: proper use of the tool</li><li>a way of being employed or used; a purpose for which something is used: He was of temporary use</li><li>the power, right, or privilege of employing or using something: to lose the use of the right eye</li><li>service or advantage in or for being employed or used; utility or usefulness: of no practical use</li><li>help; profit; resulting good: What's the use of pursuing the matter?</li><li>occasion or need, as for something to be employed or used: Would you have any use for another calendar?</li><li>continued, habitual, or customary employment or practice; custom: to follow the prevailing use of such occasions</li><li>Law: the enjoyment of property, as by the employment, occupation, or exercise of it</li><li>the benefit or profit of lands and tenements in the possession of another who simply holds them for the beneficiary</li><li>the equitable ownership of land to which the legal title is in another's name</li><li>Liturgy: the distinctive form of ritual or of any liturgical observance used in a particular church, diocese, community, etc.</li><li>usual or customary experience</li></ul><p><strong>Verb Phrase:</strong></p><ul><li>to consume entirely</li><li>to exhaust of vigor or usefulness; finish: By the end of the war he felt used up and sick of life</li></ul>