{
    "term": "use",
    "partOfSpeech": "verb",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a1",
    "verbForms": {
        "presentSimple": {
            "iYouWeThey": "use",
            "heSheIt": "uses"
        },
        "pastSimple": "used",
        "pastParticiple": "used",
        "ingForm": "using"
    },
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "to do something with a machine, a method, an object, etc. for a particular purpose",
            "sensetop": "use somethinguse something for somethinguse something for doing somethinguse something to do somethinguse something as somethinguse something in something",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Can I use the photocopier?",
                    "contextForm": "use something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He makes beer **using** traditional **methods**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The applicator makes the glue **easy to use**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Have you ever used this software before?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The oven looked as if it had never been used."
                },
                {
                    "text": "How often do you use *(= travel by)* the bus?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "They were able to achieve a settlement without using military force."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a little-used path through the wood"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a **widely used** technique for assessing the strength of metals"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I have some information you may be able to use *(= to get an advantage from)*."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We used a carrot for the snowman’s nose.",
                    "contextForm": "use something for something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "chemicals that are used for cleaning",
                    "contextForm": "use something for doing something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Police used tear gas to disperse the crowds.",
                    "contextForm": "use something to do something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "This tree bark can **be used to make** a black dye."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The building is currently being used as a warehouse.",
                    "contextForm": "use something as something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "You can't keep using your bad back as an excuse."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The drug is also used in the treatment of cancer.",
                    "contextForm": "use something in something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Candidates are not allowed to use dictionaries in the exam."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Credit cards, used appropriately, are a great financial tool."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Do you habitually use display screen equipment in your job?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Manufacturers tend to use disks made in the US."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The church is sometimes used as a concert venue."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The tennis court is sometimes used as a car park."
                },
                {
                    "text": "These garden shears are lightweight and easy to use."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a technique that is primarily used in eye surgery"
                },
                {
                    "text": "an etching technique used exclusively by Picasso"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Don't keep asking me what to do—just use your common sense!"
                },
                {
                    "text": "You should learn to use your time more efficiently."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["appropriately", "correctly", "properly"],
                "verb + use": ["be easy to", "be simple to", "be difficult to"],
                "preposition": ["as", "for"],
                "phrases": ["permission to use something"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "to take a particular amount of a liquid, substance, etc. in order to achieve or make something",
            "sensetop": "use something",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "This type of heater uses a lot of electricity."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I hope you haven't used all the milk."
                },
                {
                    "text": "This paint is very expensive, so please use it sparingly."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["appropriately", "correctly", "properly"],
                "verb + use": ["be easy to", "be simple to", "be difficult to"],
                "preposition": ["as", "for"],
                "phrases": ["permission to use something"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "to say or write particular words or a particular type of language",
            "sensetop": "use somethinguse something to do something",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The poem uses simple language.",
                    "contextForm": "use something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "That's a **word** I never **use**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "You have to use the past tense."
                },
                {
                    "text": "‘Ethics’ and ‘morality’ are often used interchangeably."
                },
                {
                    "text": "‘Pop art’ is a term **used to describe** a movement that began in the 1950s.",
                    "contextForm": "use something to do something"
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adverb": ["appropriately", "correctly", "properly"],
                "verb + use": ["be easy to", "be simple to", "be difficult to"],
                "preposition": ["as", "for"],
                "phrases": ["permission to use something"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "to be kind, friendly, etc. to somebody with the intention of getting an advantage for yourself from them",
            "sensetop": "use somebody",
            "labels": "(disapproving)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Can't you see he's just **using you for his own ends**?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I felt used."
                }
            ],
            "synonyms": "exploit"
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 5,
            "definition": "to take illegal drugs",
            "sensetop": "use (something)",
            "labels": "(slang)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Most of the inmates have used drugs at some point in their lives."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She's been using since she was 13."
                },
                {
                    "text": "the factors that make people likely to use heroin"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "used to say that you would like to have something very much",
            "labels": "(informal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "I think we could all use a drink after that!"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "used to tell somebody to think about something, especially when they have asked for your opinion or said something stupid",
            "labels": "(informal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "‘Why don't you want to see him again?’ ‘Oh, use your head!’"
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/juːz/",
                "audio": "us/use/use__gb_3.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈjuːzɪz/",
                "audio": "us/use/uses__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/juːzd/",
                "audio": "us/use/used__gb_3.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈjuːzɪŋ/",
                "audio": "us/use/using__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/juːz/",
                "audio": "us/use/use__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈjuːzɪz/",
                "audio": "us/use/uses__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/juːzd/",
                "audio": "us/use/used__us_3.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈjuːzɪŋ/",
                "audio": "us/use/using__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Middle English: the noun from Old French us, from Latin usus, from uti ‘to use’; the verb from Old French user, based on Latin uti."
}