单词 | to have use for |
释义 | > as lemmasto have use for (also †of) 18. Need or occasion for using or employing something; necessity, requirement, demand. Chiefly in to have use for (also †of). Cf. to have no use for at Phrases 14. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > necessity > condition of being necessary > need or want > [noun] > need for use turn1538 use1596 1596 Vlysses vpon Aiax sig. D7 Hee hath prouided no seemely glasse windowes for his Aiax, and by that meanes hee bringeth those that shal haue vse of it, into a great inconuenience. 1607 J. Norden Surueyors Dialogue 213 For there is no Country..but hath vse of timber. a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) iii. iii. 324 I haue vse for it. View more context for this quotation 1633 Bp. J. Hall Plaine Explic. Hard Texts ii. 95 Not out of any necessity, or use of nature..hee tooke that fish. 1672 Life in J. Mede Wks. p. xxxvi A Book of Mathematicks which he had great use of, and had long thirsted after. 1710 T. Ruddiman in G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneis (new ed.) Gloss. at Nate He would note it, i.e. needs it, or has use for it. 1826 A. Scott Poems 39 The warld will still have use for you and me. 1854 H. Miller My Schools & Schoolmasters vii There was no use, they said, for being in the Devil's Cave so late. 1904 R. Kipling Traffics & Discov. 70 We run down our trampo..an' inquired of 'er if she had any use for a free and gratis stowaway. 1948 J. Thurber Let. 24 Apr. (2002) 427 ‘You and your mother may have some use for these’, I said. ‘They are a dozen sanitary napkins.’ 2004 M. Miller Absolute Beginner's Guide to Upgrading & Fixing Your PC xviii. 221 Someone less fortunate might have great use for a second-hand PC. < as lemmas |
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