expression:

• fools use people to pick up things lying at their own feet; stupidity of using people for small things - idiom

expression / godan ~つ verb:

• to make use of aizuchi; to back-channel; to throw in interjections to show that one is paying attention ➜ 相槌【あいづち】

expression / ichidan verb:

• to make full use of (skill, experience, authority, etc.); to take full advantage of (something); to rely on ➜ 物を言う【ものをいう】

noun:

• use of seductive techniques to attain one's ends (usu. of women)

noun:

• game in which children use a piece of charcoal on a string to create and lift up snowballs - archaism

noun:

• clever use of words to advance an argument; tricky manipulation of law

noun:

• use of blue eyebrow pencil to indicate a character has shaved his cheeks (in kabuki)

~する verb (irregular) / transitive:

• to do by the use of

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to have long in use

noun:

• diversion to military use

expression / godan ~す verb:

• to draw on one's experience; to make good use of one's experience; to turn one's experience to good account

expression:

• he has not lived that lives not after death; the great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it; tigers leave their hide when they die; men leave their name [literal] - proverb

noun / ~する noun:

• (practical) application; putting to practical use

noun or verb acting prenominally:

• applied ➜ 応用物理学【おうようぶつりがく】・応用言語学【おうようげんごがく】

noun / ~する noun / ~の noun:

• diversion; putting something to another use

expression / adjective:

• to gain nothing; to be of no benefit; to be no use; to be unprofitable

expression:

• he has not lived that lives not after death; the great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it - proverb

expression / ~する verb (irregular):

• to render futile; to bring to naught; to waste; to not make good use of

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to impersonate someone; to go under a false name; to make fraudulent use of someone's name ➜ 騙る【かたる】

ichidan verb / intransitive verb:

• to be done; to be practiced; to be practised; to take place; to be held; to be prevalent; to be in fashion; to be in vogue; to be current; to come into use

noun:

• link banner (graphic or logo provided for use in linking to web site) - IT term

noun:

• restoring a computer to factory settings (esp. through reinstallation of the operating system, or use of a recovery CD) - IT term

expression / ~する verb (spec.):

• to be too late (to be of use)

godan ~る verb / transitive:

• to reserve (for exclusive use); to charter; to book
• to lend out completely; to lend out all of (something)

noun:

• inflatable (in the sense of "needs to be inflated for normal use")

noun:

• telegram sent at night (usually to make use of a reduced rate)