1The action of using something or the fact of being used.

水利用调查。

设备使用。

1. 1.1 The way in which a word or phrase is normally and correctly used.
   （词，短语）惯用法；正确用法
   count noun there are various derivative usages

   Example sentencesExamples

   • It was to record facts, and the fact that usage differs for reasons to be found in the history of language.
   • This is not surprising, as there has been a shift in usage this century and older style books give different advice from newer ones.
   • Like ‘lame’, there are a lot of words in regular usage that have questionable origins.
   • This usage of the word ‘primitive’ is now much less common and no longer has derogatory implications.
   • I'd never heard of the journal before but it's chock full of goodness for those with an interest in word usage and origins.
   • We don't in general need to appeal to previous usage to know what a phrase means.
   • The word in classical usage describes a small café serving traditional French cooking.
   • As discussed here previously, we use the term hacker in the common usage of the word.
   • For example, a lot of the words that we would today classify as racial slurs were in common usage in polite society as recently as thirty years ago.
   • The most curious usage, because it seems to have spread furthest from its origins, whatever they are, is snail.
   • Essentially the same usage occurs in both Japanese and Korean.
   • Pater Noster was not a phrase exclusive to Christian usage, it was a known term.
   • Perhaps a shorter pronunciation will become standard usage in the future.
   • Soon I shall be doing a quick survey of some examples of actual live usage of the word.
   • In the end, the people who write textbooks will probably tip the scales in favor of one usage or another.
   • It is thus crucial to interrogate the nuances behind the unconscious and conscious usage of words.
   • The usage of contemporary words made for an easy understanding of the essence of the original work by all.
   • In everyday, non-technical usage the words have much the same meaning.
   • In general usage, it is a word associated with emphasis, significance, tension, and strain.
   • In a case like this, the facts of linguistic history and current usage don't really matter.

   Synonyms

   phraseology, phrasing, diction, parlance, idiom, choice of words, terminology

   way of speaking/writing, manner of speaking/writing, style (of speaking/writing), mode of speaking/writing, mode of expression

   French façon de parler

   technical idiolect, sociolect
2. 1.2 Habitual or customary practice, especially as creating a right, obligation, or standard.
   （尤指形成权利，义务，标准等的）常规做法；惯例
   count noun the dictates and usages of polite society

   Example sentencesExamples

   • There are many employments the remuneration of which is, by trade usage, invariably fixed on a commission basis.
   • It is impossible to give any precise or universal formula, but it may broadly be said that a useful test is perhaps what is reasonable according to the ordinary usages of mankind living in society, or more correctly in a particular society.
   • He manifests his more permanent ideas in laws and customs and social usages; but in dealing with the events of the passing hour, he must employ interpreters.
   • Customary rights are usage rights, granting the right to do a specific thing in a specific place.
   • This rule does not apply if it can be established that a custom or usage is applicable to each permitting marriage between the two.
   • The information must be judged in the light of the usage and practices of the industry involved.
   • The town's acquisition of jurisdictions from its lords would have been a sufficient motivation to compile a written set of customary usages of the town.
   • Thus we speak of the customs prevailing in a society - usages, manners and convictions that we observe.
   • It was not suggested that usage and custom in this context were other than synonymous.
   • The issue was not to be prejudged: it would hinge on the legal rights to the land in dispute, as set out in charter or exercised in practice or usage.
   • What this bill does is to recognise the customary rights and usages of Maori - as we should do.
   • The Board shall make its decision with regard to the custom and usage of the insurance and reinsurance business.
   • Once a specific customary usage right is recognised, it is simply registered on the local plan.
   • He upheld customary usages and institutions in Goa, reduced anti-Hindu discrimination, promoted education and tolerance, and abolished the colour bar.
   • In any event, the practices and usages of war which gradually ripened into recognized customs with which belligerents were bound to comply, recognized the crimes specified herein as crimes subject to punishment.
   • It would be my gym for my training, where I would practice my weapons usage and martial arts.
   • I rather mean all the problems of custom and usage, for only by following them unrestricted succession is possible.
   • In fact, Bowen's wife plays a key role in securing his acceptance, ‘being a well-educated woman, versed in the usages of polite society’.
   • Its composition, its time of meeting, its powers, are all regulated by convention and usage, not by law.
   • Was there a custom or usage of the ports in Chile that cargo could be delivered without presentation of a bill of landing?

   Synonyms

   custom, practice, habit, tradition, convention, routine, rule, rite, ritual, observance, ordinance, ceremony, ceremonial

   way, procedure, method, mode, form, formality, wont

   formal praxis

   (usages), Latinmores

   French moeurs