Writing: how to correctly use “use” and “use”?

“Use” and “use” are two verbs with different meanings. Do not confuse them.

“Use” is using objects for the purposes for which they were designed.

To “use”, on the other hand, is to use objects for unwanted purposes.

Authorized test:

The Oxford English Dictionary defines the use of the verb as “to make use of (something immaterial) as a means or instrument; to employ for a certain end or purpose”.

But use is defined as “make or make useful; convert to use, convert to account.”

MSN Encarta Dictionary defines use as “making use of something, or finding a practical or effective use for something.”

And here is the logical proof of the crucial distinction between these two verbs: The logical extreme of “use” is “abuse”, referring to the act of using something in ways that are contradictory to its original “mission statement” or designed function.

But there is no corresponding logical extreme to “use” such as, say, “disuse” or “abuse”, since, by its very definition, to use something means to use it in ways other than the purpose for which it was originally designed. or created. “Abuse”, so to speak, is a built-in semantic component of “use”.

INCORRECT: “The TV uses a coaxial cable to connect to the antenna.” (A TV unit and a coaxial cable were meant to be used together, by definition.)

CORRECT: “The TV uses a coaxial cable to connect to the antenna.

CORRECT: “The TV uses paper clips to connect to the antenna.” (A television is not designed to use paper clips to connect to the antenna. That is a very unusual improvisation and, in the strict sense of the word, a “abuse” of paper clips).

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