use doesn’t get much love, which is hardly surprising. It has two important strikes against it. The first is its ending: words with -ize suffixes tend to annoy people (we’ll pause here for those who want to hate on encourage a time). And second is its length: two syllables longer in total than its simple Jane synonym use, use often labeled as “pretentious”.
‘Utilize’ is often used to suggest a new, profitable or practical use for something.
But English speakers have been looking for -ize useful since the 16th century and the words that use it become useful every day (e.g.: authority, Capitalization, realizeAnd stable). And no one called small “conceited” because it’s longer littleor actually “conceited” because it’s longer reality.
Maybe the real problem is use is (relatively) new. Although both use And use ultimately derived from Latin utimeans “to use,” use has functioned as a verb since the 14th century. Meanwhile, use did not come to the language until the early 19th century, when English speakers seem to think that borrowing from French user is a good idea. (Its recent French heritage doesn’t help with accusations of conceit.)
However, both words are firmly established in the language. And while it’s true that use can generally be substituted for use no change in meaning, use often applied with the specific meaning of “take advantage of : to switch to actual use or account” and often suggest the discovery of a new, beneficial or practical use for something:
Investigators desperate to solve a notoriously cold case impersonated consumers interested in their family tree as they used an open-source genealogy website to identify the murdered Golden State Killer. in doubt, raising questions about whether the increasingly popular DNA analysis sites should be used more. just dig into one’s legacy. —Trisha Thadani, San Francisco ChroniclesApril 28, 2018
According to a 2014 study published in the Federal Reserve Bank of New York Current problem magazine, graduates who find themselves in jobs that don’t use their degrees in their 20s find jobs more relevant to their degrees in their 30s. — Prachi Gupta, around the worldMarch 2, 2016
Individual insurers should start experimenting with new ways to use blockchain with internal processes to learn how to leverage as the technology matures. —Bernard Marr, ForbesOctober 31, 2017
They found the time distribution remained remarkably stable over 15 years. But for many patrons, the way they take advantage of those precious moments with Picasso has changed dramatically, with more than a third of those taking pictures of themselves in front of the artwork. — Tom Jacobs, Pacific StandardMarch 2, 2016
Use can of course be substituted for use in any of these examples, but the implication of a deliberate decision or attempt to use something for a practical purpose is lost. If you want a word that does that specialized job use No, we don’t think you should be ashamed to use it.
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