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used

EN[juːzd] [juːst] [-uːst]
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  • Used may refer to:
  • Used good, goods of any type that have been used before
  • Used, Huesca, a village in Huesca, Aragon, Spain
  • Used, Zaragoza, a town in Zaragoza, Aragon, Spain
  • "Used" (song), a song by Rocket from the Crypt from their 1995 album Scream, Dracula, Scream!
  • The Used, a rock band from Orem, Utah
  • The Used (album), their 2002 debut album

    Definition of used in English Dictionary

  • Verb
    1. simple past tense and past participle of use.
      1. VI (as an auxiliary verb, now only in past tense) to perform habitually; to be accustomed.
        1. He used to live here, but moved away last year.
    2. AdjectiveCOMmore usedSUPmost used
      1. That is or has or have been used.
        1. Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.
      2. That has or have previously been owned by someone else.
        1. He bought a used car. ‎
      3. Familiar through use; usual; accustomed.
      4. More Examples
        1. Used in the Middle of Sentence
          • The diascope (a flat piece of glass) was used to press out the blood and expose the apple-jelly points of marginal growth.
          • Shakespeare often used volte faces in the rhyming couplets at the end of his sonnets.
          • We also performed PCR to amplify a portion of D loop using the same primers (H16498 and L15910; [26 ]) and thermoprofile used by Bozarth et al.
        2. Used in the Beginning of Sentence
          • Used in the list of signatures at the end of the United States Constitution
        3. Used in the Ending of Sentence
          • Another matter we noticed was the large number of "cage" beds for the troublesome and noctambulant patients—camisoles and other physical restraints were rarely used.
          • Interestingly, the iridophores, which are neurally controlled structural reflectors [21 ,22 ] that lie subadjacent to the chromatophore layer [3 ,23 ], do not bind any of the antibodies we used.
          • For equal volume loading measurements, nonhomogenized samples were used.
      • Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
        1. Adjectives
          • Verbs
            • Verb forms
              • Participles
                • Past participles
                • Verb simple past forms
                • Intransitive verbs
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              1. en used to
              2. en used up
              3. en usedness
              4. en usedn't to
              Source: Wiktionary
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              Meaning of used for the defined word.

              Grammatically, this word "used" is an adjective. It's also a verb, more specifically, a verb form and an intransitive verb.
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