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- to use; to make use of; to employ
- (coverb) with; using
- to need; to have to (usu. used in the negative or in questions)
- usefulness; utility
- (bound form) expense; outlay
- (courteous) to eat; to drink
- (literary) hence; therefore
- to share the use of; to have joint use of
- communal (bathroom); shared (antenna)
- to use, in total, ...
Trad. 應用
- to put to use; to apply
- practical; applied (science, linguistics etc)
- application; practical use
- (computing) app
- to exchange for (sth of equal value or utility); to use in lieu; to redeem (a coupon etc); to use to offset (an amount owed etc)
- to shift (funds)
- to (legitimately) take funds set aside for one purpose in order to use them for another
- to embezzle
- to misappropriate
Trad. 實用
- to apply in practice
- practical; functional; pragmatic; applied (science)
- to use (sth) for a purpose other than its original one; to adapt (tools, methods etc) for another purpose
- to apply (sth hitherto used in a different context)
- to use (rules, systems, models etc copied from elsewhere) (often implying that they aren't suited to the new situation)
- to borrow (a phrase)
- (Tw) (computing) to apply (a style, formatting etc)
Trad. 調用
- to transfer (for a specific purpose)
- to allocate
- (computing) to invoke (a command, an application etc)
- to apply (knowledge etc) creatively and flexibly
- to use a word flexibly (e.g. a noun as an adjective)
- diligent
- industrious (in one's studies)
- to study hard
- to make great effort
Trad. 吳用
- Wu Yong, character of 水滸傳|水浒传[Shui3 hu3 Zhuan4], nicknamed Resourceful Star 智多星[Zhi4 duo1 xing1]
- to use anywhere, anytime (card, ticket etc)
- to be used by everyone (language, textbook etc)
- (of two or more things) interchangeable
- to act on; to affect
- action; function; activity
- impact; result; effect
- purpose; intent
- (suffix) -ation, -tion etc, as in 抑制作用[yi4 zhi4 zuo4 yong4], inhibition
Trad. 應用文
- applied writing
- writing for practical purposes (business letters, advertising etc)
- unfit for anything
- no good
- useless
- (of a sick person) beyond hope
- store credit (credit to be spent at a specified retailer)
Trad. 強作用
- strong interaction (governing hadrons in nuclear physics)
Trad. 試用本
- inspection copy (of a textbook etc)
- trial edition
- (physics) reaction
- (fig.) backlash; unintended consequence
- to have an effect
- to play a role
- to be operative
- to work
- to function
Trad. 用得著
- to be able to use; useable; to have a use for
- (in a question) to be necessary to