Synonyms of the word utilize


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utilize

  • v. (US, Canada, Oxford British English) Alternative spelling of utilise.

apply

  • v. (transitive) To lay or place; to put (one thing to another).
  • v. (transitive) To put to use; to use or employ for a particular purpose, or in a particular case; to appropriate;…
  • v. (transitive) To make use of, declare, or pronounce, as suitable, fitting, or relative; as, to apply the…
  • v. (transitive) To fix closely; to engage and employ diligently, or with attention; to attach; to incline.
  • v. (transitive) To betake; to address; to refer; generally used reflexively.
  • v. (intransitive) To submit oneself as a candidate (with the adposition "to" designating the recipient of…
  • v. (intransitive) To pertain or be relevant to a specified individual or group.
  • v. (obsolete) To busy; to keep at work; to ply.
  • v. (obsolete) To visit.
  • adj. Alternative spelling of appley.

change

  • v. (intransitive) To become something different.
  • v. (transitive, ergative) To make something into something different.
  • v. (transitive) To replace.
  • v. (intransitive) To replace one's clothing.
  • v. (intransitive) To transfer to another vehicle (train, bus, etc.).
  • v. (archaic) To exchange.
  • v. (transitive) To change hand while riding (a horse).
  • n. (countable) The process of becoming different.
  • n. (uncountable) Small denominations of money given in exchange for a larger denomination.
  • n. (countable) A replacement, e.g. a change of clothes.
  • n. (uncountable) Money given back when a customer hands over more than the exact price of an item.
  • n. (uncountable) Coins (as opposed to paper money).
  • n. (countable) A transfer between vehicles.
  • n. (baseball) A change-up pitch.
  • n. (campanology) Any order in which a number of bells are struck, other than that of the diatonic scale.
  • n. (dated) A place where merchants and others meet to transact business; an exchange.
  • n. (Scotland, dated) A public house; an alehouse.

commute

  • v. (intransitive) To regularly travel from one's home to one's workplace or school, or vice versa.
  • v. (intransitive, mathematics) Of an operation, to be commutative, i.e. to have the property that changing…
  • v. To exchange; to put or substitute something else in place of, as a smaller penalty, obligation, or payment…
  • n. A regular journey to or from a place of employment, such as work or school.
  • n. The route, time or distance of that journey.

convert

  • n. A person who has converted to a religion.
  • n. A person who is now in favour of something that he or she previously opposed or disliked.
  • v. (transitive) To transform or change (something) into another form, substance, state, or product.
  • v. (transitive) To change (something) from one use, function, or purpose to another.
  • v. (transitive) To induce (someone) to adopt a particular religion, faith, ideology or belief (see also sense…
  • v. (transitive) To exchange for something of equal value.
  • v. (transitive) To express (a quantity) in alternative units.
  • v. (transitive) To express (a unit of measure) in terms of another; to furnish a mathematical formula by…
  • v. (transitive, law) To appropriate wrongfully or unlawfully; to commit the common law tort of conversion.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive, rugby football) To score extra points after (a try) by completing a conversion.
  • v. (soccer) To score (a penalty).
  • v. (intransitive, ten-pin bowling) To score a spare.
  • v. (intransitive) To undergo a conversion of religion, faith or belief (see also sense 3).
  • v. (intransitive) To become converted.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To cause to turn; to turn.
  • v. (transitive, logic) To change (one proposition) into another, so that what was the subject of the first…
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To turn into another language; to translate.
  • v. (transitive, cricket) To increase one's individual score, especially from 50 runs (a fifty) to 100 runs…

employ

  • n. The state of being an employee; employment.
  • v. To hire (somebody for work or a job).
  • v. To use (somebody for a job, or something for a task).
  • v. To make busy.

exchange

  • n. An act of exchanging or trading.
  • n. A place for conducting trading.
  • n. A telephone exchange.
  • n. (telephony, US only?) The fourth through sixth digits of a ten-digit phone number (the first three before…
  • n. A conversation.
  • n. (chess) The loss of one piece and associated capture of another.
  • n. (obsolete) The thing given or received in return; especially, a publication exchanged for another.
  • n. (biochemistry) The transfer of substances or elements like gas, amino-acids, ions etc. sometimes through…
  • v. (transitive) To trade or barter.
  • v. (transitive) To replace with, as a substitute.

use

  • n. The act of using.
  • n. (uncountable, followed by "of") Usefulness, benefit.
  • n. A function; a purpose for which something may be employed.
  • n. Occasion or need to employ; necessity.
  • n. (obsolete, rare) Interest for lent money; premium paid for the use of something; usury.
  • n. (archaic) Continued or repeated practice; usage; habit.
  • n. (obsolete) Common occurrence; ordinary experience.
  • n. (religion) The special form of ritual adopted for use in any diocese.
  • n. (forging) A slab of iron welded to the side of a forging, such as a shaft, near the end, and afterward…
  • v. To accustom; to habituate.
  • v. (reflexive, obsolete) To become accustomed (to), to accustom oneself (to).
  • v. (transitive) To employ; to apply; to utilize.
  • v. (reflexive, obsolete) To behave, act, comport oneself.
  • v. (transitive, often with up) To exhaust the supply of; to consume by employing.
  • v. (transitive) To exploit.
  • v. (dated) To behave toward; to act with regard to; to treat.
  • v. (intransitive, now rare, literary) To habitually do; to be wont to do.
  • v. (intransitive, past tense with infinitive) To habitually do. See used to.
  • v. (transitive, with auxiliary could) To need; to benefit from.
  • v. (intransitive) To consume a previously specified substance, especially a drug to which one is addicted.

utilise

  • v. To make useful, to find a practical use for.
  • v. To make use of; to use.
  • v. To make best use of; to use to its fullest extent, potential, or ability.
  • v. To make do with; to use in manner different from that originally intended.

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