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Definition: In Use |
In UseAdjective1. (of facilities such as telephones or lavatories) unavailable for use by anyone else or indicating unavailability; (`engaged' is a British term for a busy telephone line); "her line is busy"; "receptionists' telephones are always engaged"; "the lavatory is in use"; "kept getting a busy signal". 2. Currently being used; "robots are in use throughout industry". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: In UseSynonyms: busy (adj), engaged (adj), in use(p) (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Use | Adjective: in use; used; Verb: well-worn, well-trodden. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: In Use |
| English words defined with "in use": all-purpose, Approvement, Archilute ♦ Bagwig, black letter, breakage, Burse ♦ Carronade, Carte de visite, Cartes de visite, Clarichord, Composing frame, Cyphonism ♦ Desynonymize, Discurrent, disused, dust cover, dust sheet ♦ Fireboard, free ♦ Gambison, general-purpose, Gonfanon, Gothic ♦ Hobit, Hyalonema ♦ I O U, industrial ♦ lens cap, lens cover, Livre ♦ Method of indivisibles, Mezuzoth, modular ♦ Netting, new, nicad, nickel-cadmium accumulator ♦ obsolete, occupied, Orlo, Out of use, outdated, out-of-date ♦ Pehlevi, Penrack, Polyconic projection, press, Primary rocks ♦ Rabinet, Redowa, retrofit, Rigoll, Roman calendar ♦ Sail room, Skean, slanginess, sottishness, Stone boiling, superannuated ♦ Tuf-taffeta ♦ uneconomical, unoccupied, Unship ♦ wasteful ♦ Zampogna. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "in use": Discurrent. (references) |
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 | Bamberg astronomical transit In use 1914 - 1960 Used for both latitude and longitude observations. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Instructing Liberians in use of survey instruments Combined operations party of George Morris. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Sigsbee Sounding Machine in use on the ALBATROSS. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Leffingwell's Flaxman Island Base - in use 1909-1911. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
 | An outbuilding at Leffingwell's Flaxman Island Base - in use 1909-1911. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | Flume of PH 1 water from portals no longer in use, Richmond and Lawson, at Iron Mountain Mine. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
 | The ALBATROSS with surface and dipnets in use. In: "Dredging and Other Records of the Fish Commission Steamer ALBATROSS", compiled by C. H. Townsend, 1901. Library Call Number QH91.57.R47 A4 1901. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | Filtering system in use on hog operation on a farm in Taylor County, Iowa. The system uses a series of hillside terraces that form constructed wetlands that also use bacteria to purify wastewater from a hog operation. Early tests indicated the water was. Credit: Tim McCabe. |
 | Water sample taken from the lagoon in a filtering system in use on a farm in Taylor County, Iowa. The system uses a series of hillside terraces that form constructed wetlands that also use bacteria to purify wastewater from a hog operation. See NRCS-IA-99. Credit: Tim McCabe. |  | Conservation tillage in use on a highly erodible field in Iowa. Credit: Lynn Betts. |
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 | Busy signal; line occupied; unavailable; in use; tied up; off the hook; out of order; out of service. |
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Xenophon | Apollo said that everyone's true worship was that which he found in use in the place where he chanced to be. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | In particular, this material will include all items under the following heads which are or have been in use or were designed for warlike purposes: Complete aeroplanes and seaplanes, as well as those being manufactured, repaired or assembled. (reference) |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | E-beam medical sterilizers have been in use for at least fifteen years. (references) | |
Already in use is a small mechanical pump called a left ventricular assist device (LVAD). (references) | ||
Newer vaccines in use today cause fewer adverse reactions than previously available vaccines. (references) | ||
Business | The number of cards in the market doubles each year, with about 750,000 in use today. (references) | |
The equipment in use by the basic telephony operators is still far from being saturated. (references) | ||
Other models in use include Kenwood (Japan), and European makes ICOM, Siemens and Simoco. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Congo | Roadblocks still were in use, but usually to protect government installations. (references) |
Mozambique | The return of church property is problematic when the facility is in use as a public school, health clinic, or police station, because funds for construction of new facilities are in short supply. (references) | |
Germany | The Bavarian Interior Ministry commented that these were individual decisions, but withdrew the questionnaire for persons already employed with the State of Bavaria or the City of Munich; however, the questionnaire is still in use for persons seeking new state or municipal government employment. (references) | |
Economic History | Cote D'ivoire | Total number of computers in use has reached 60,000 units. (references) |
Cuba (09/01) | Since then, the dollar has become the major currency in use. (references) | |
Bulgaria | The pipe network is worn-our since it has been in use for more than 20 years. (references) | |
Human Rights | Malta | New detention cells, which were extensively refurbished and upgraded, are in use at police headquarters. (references) |
Solomon Islands | The only prison complex in use during the year was completed with the assistance of a foreign government. (references) | |
Taiwan | In June the Taipei District Court adopted the new trial system already in use in the Shilin District Court in Taipei city and in the Miaoli county courts. (references) | |
Minorities | Poland | There were 5 Lithuanian-language textbooks in use during the year. (references) |
Political Economy | ARGENTINA | However, the Argentine government has yet to comply fully with an agreement to legalize unlicensed software in use in government offices. (references) |
RUSSIA | Workers' freedom to move in search of new employment is constrained economically and is further limited by the system of residency permits, which is still in use in cities such as Moscow and St. Petersburg. (references) | |
Trade | Uruguay | Debt-equity swap arrangements are also in use. (references) |
Ireland | Both imperial units and the International System of Units (SI) are in use. (references) | |
Tanzania | Bonded warehouses are also available and are currently in use by importers who want to hold products and goods until the buyers pay tax and duty. (references) | |
Travel | Slovak Rep | Cellular GSM telephone service is commonly in use, with two major providers. (references) |
Costa Rica | Costa Rica has more than 500 kilometers (300 miles) of railway track, but little of it is currently in use. (references) | |
Ukraine | Ukrainian domestic carriers operate Antonov-24 or Yakovlev-40 type aircraft, most of which have been in use for over 20 years. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | FLY-:SPECK:, n. The prototype of punctuation. It is observed by Garvinus that the systems of punctuation in use by the various literary nations depended originally upon the social habits and general diet of the flies infesting the several countries. These creatures, which have always been distinguished for a neighborly and companionable familiarity with authors, liberally or niggardly embellish the manuscripts in process of growth under the pen, according to their bodily habit, bringing out the sense of the work by a species of interpretation superior to, and independent of, the writer's powers. The "old masters" of literature -- that is to say, the early writers whose work is so esteemed by later scribes and critics in the same language -- never punctuated at all, but worked right along free-handed, without that abruption of the thought which comes from the use of points. (We observe the same thing in children to-day, whose usage in this particular is a striking and beautiful instance of the law that the infancy of individuals reproduces the methods and stages of development characterizing the infancy of races.) In the work of these primitive scribes all the punctuation is found, by the modern investigator with his optical instruments and chemical tests, to have been inserted by the writers' ingenious and serviceable collaborator, the common house-fly -- Musca maledicta. In transcribing these ancient MSS, for the purpose of either making the work their own or preserving what they naturally regard as divine revelations, later writers reverently and accurately copy whatever marks they find upon the papyrus or parchment, to the unspeakable enhancement of the lucidity of the thought and value of the work. Writers contemporary with the copyists naturally avail themselves of the obvious advantages of these marks in their own work, and with such assistance as the flies of their own household may be willing to grant, frequently rival and sometimes surpass the older compositions, in respect at least of punctuation, which is no small glory. Fully to understand the important services that flies perform to literature it is only necessary to lay a page of some popular novelist alongside a saucer of cream-and-molasses in a sunny room and observe "how the wit brightens and the style refines" in accurate proportion to the duration of exposure. |
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Expressions using "in use": be in use ♦ not in use ♦ sets in use. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "in use"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | jo në përdorim (not in use). (various references) | |
Czech | užívaný (used), obvyklý (common, consuetudinary, customary, habitual, normal, ordinary, regular, routine, standard, unexceptional, usual, wonted). (various references) | |
Danish | ULA (agricultural area in use, usable agricultural area, utilized agricultural area), udnyttet landbrugsareal (agricultural area in use, agricultural area utilized for farming, agriculturally used area, usable agricultural area, utilised agricultural area, utilized agricultural area), jord i vekseldrift (grounds alternately in use as arable land and pasture, grounds submitted to rotation of crops), benyttelsesdag (days in use), benyttelsesdøgn (days in use), anvendelsesdag (days in use). (various references) | |
Dutch | oppervlakte cultuurgrond (agricultural area in use, agricultural area utilized for farming, agriculturally used area, area under crop, area under cultivation, crop area, cultivated area, land under crop, total arable area, total crop area, total cultivated area, usable agricultural area, utilised agricultural area, utilized agricultural area), OCG (agricultural area in use, usable agricultural area, utilized agricultural area), OC (agricultural area in use, usable agricultural area, utilized agricultural area), dienstdagen (days in use), de meetluiken van de tanks dienen zich boven zo dicht mogelijk bij de trap te bevinden en moeten,wanneer ze niet gebruikt worden,altijd gesloten zijn (and their covers should always be closed when not in use, dip hatches of tanks should be located as near as possible to the head of the stairway), akker-grasland (grounds alternately in use as arable land and pasture). (various references) | |
Finnish | maa vuoroviljelyssä (grounds alternately in use as arable land and pasture, grounds submitted to rotation of crops), käyttämätön (not in use, spare, unused). (various references) | |
French | utilisé (indented), usité, en usage. (various references) | |
German | in betrieb (in action), im gebrauch (operational), im einsatz (operational). (various references) | |
Greek | στην χρήση. (various references) | |
Hungarian | használatos (to be in use). (various references) | |
Italian | usato (old, second hand, used, uses, worn). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 持ち古す (to have long in use). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | もちふるす (to have long in use). (various references) | |
Manx | s'claughtal (satisfaction in use of). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | inay eusay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | instalação réplica (another standardization concept that is in use and covered under a policy and procedures statement is the replicate plant, in which an applicant proposes to construct a plant exactly like one already licensed, replicate plant), instalação gémea (another standardization concept that is in use and covered under a policy and procedures statement is the replicate plant, in which an applicant proposes to construct a plant exactly like one already licensed, replicate plant), terrenos usados alternadamente como pasto ou como cultivo (grounds alternately in use as arable land and pasture), superfície agrícola utilizada (agricultural area in use, agricultural area utilized for farming, agriculturally used area, usable agricultural area, utilised agricultural area, utilized agricultural area), superfície agrícola útil (agricultural area in use, usable agricultural area, utilized agricultural area), SAU (agricultural area in use, usable agricultural area, utilized agricultural area), dias de utilização (days in use). (various references) | |
Russian | неупотребительный (not in use, out of use, rarebit), многократность использования (repetition in use), использоваться (be in use). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | van upotrebe (use: not in use). (various references) | |
Spanish | terreno cultivado por rotación (grounds alternately in use as arable land and pasture), superficie agraria utilizada (agricultural area in use, usable agricultural area, utilized agricultural area), SAU (agricultural area in use, usable agricultural area, utilized agricultural area), planta repetida (another standardization concept that is in use and covered under a policy and procedures statement is the replicate plant, in which an applicant proposes to construct a plant exactly like one already licensed, replicate plant), los orificios de aforado deben disponerse lo mas cerca posible del extremo superior de la escalera y sus tapaderas deben estar siempre cerradas cuando no se utilice el orificio (and their covers should always be closed when not in use, dip hatches of tanks should be located as near as possible to the head of the stairway), días de utilización (days in use). (various references) | |
Swedish | vara i bruk (be in use, obtain), jordbruksmark i växelbruk (grounds alternately in use as arable land and pasture, grounds submitted to rotation of crops). (various references) | |
Turkish | geçerli (acceptable, admissible, available, current, effective, effectual, eligible, far out, in force, operative, passable, prevailing, received, regnant, ruling, sound, valid, viable). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"In Use" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: inuse. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-i-n-s-u" | |
-1 letter: sine. | |
-2 letters: ens, ins, nus, sei, sen, sin, sue, sun, uns, use. | |
-3 letters: en, es, in, is, ne, nu, si, un, us. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-i-n-s-u" | |
+1 letter: ennuis, genius, incuse, indues, infuse, insure, inures, lunies, nudies, puisne, rusine, sequin, supine, tenuis, undies, unisex, unites, unties, unwise, urines, ursine. | |
+2 letters: aunties, beduins, bunnies, burnies, cinques, cuisine, dunites, echinus, elusion, ensuing, envious, equines, funnies, guineas, gunites, gunnies, heinous, hunkies, igneous, immunes, incudes, incused, incuses, induces, infused, infuser, infuses, inhumes, injures, inquest, insured, insurer, insures, inulase, junkies, leucins, lineups, luniest, lupines, luteins, minuets, minuses, minutes, mistune, mureins, murines, mutines, niduses, niveous, nutsier, puisnes, puniest, punkies, punties, purines, quinces, quintes, requins, reusing, ruiners, sequins, silenus, sinuate, sinuses, spinule, spunkie, suberin, subline, sueding, sunlike, sunnier, sunrise, sunwise, supines, triunes, tunnies, undines, unfixes, unifies, uniques, uniters, unities, unlives, unmixes, unpiles, unrisen, unsized, unveils, unwiser, uprisen, urinose, utensil. | |
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