different between usage vs roadworn

English

Alternative forms

• usuage (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English usage, from Anglo-Norman and Old French usage.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ju?s?d??/, /?ju?z?d??/

Noun

usage (countable and uncountable, plural usages)

1. Habit, practice.
   1. A custom or established practice. [from 14th c.]
      • 1792, James Boswell, in Danziger & Brady (eds.), Boswell: The Great Biographer (Journals 1789–1795), Yale 1989, p. 170:

        [S]everal young people sung sacred music in the churchyard at night, which it seems is an usage here.

   2. (uncountable) Custom, tradition. [from 14th c.]
   3. Behaviour or a specific act typical of a person or people; habit. [from 14th c.]
      • 1846, Charles Dickens, Dombey & Son:

        Mrs. Wickam, agreeably to the usage of some ladies in her condition, pursued […] the subject, without any compunction.

2. Utilization.
   1. The act of using something; use, employment. [from 14th c.]
   2. The established custom of using language; the ways and contexts in which spoken and written words are used, especially by a certain group of people or in a certain region. [from 14th c.]
   3. (now archaic) Action towards someone; treatment, especially in negative sense. [from 16th c.]
      • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.4:

        Whose sharp provokement them incenst so sore, / That both were bent t'avenge his usage base […]

      • Satisfy a child by a constant course of your care and kindness, that you perfectly love him, and he may by degrees be accustom'd to bear very painful and rough usage from you, without flinching or complaining

Derived terms

Translations

References

• “usage” in R.R.K. Hartmann and Gregory James, Dictionary of Lexicography, Routledge, 1998.
• Sydney I. Landau (2001), Dictionaries: The Art and Craft of Lexicography, 2nd ed., Cambridge University Press, p 217.

Anagrams

• Gause, agues, gause, suage

French

Etymology

From Latin ?sus + -age. Compare Medieval Latin usagium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /y.za?/

Noun

usage m (plural usages)

1. usage, use
2. (lexicography) The ways and contexts in which spoken and written words are actually used, determined by a lexicographer's intuition or from corpus analysis (as opposed to correct or proper use of language, proclaimed by some authority).

Derived terms

• d'usage
• en usage
• faire usage
• hors d'usage

Related terms

• usager

See also

• descriptif, normatif

Further reading

• “usage” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• auges, sauge, suage

Middle French

Noun

usage m (plural usages)

1. habit; custom

Old French

Noun

usage m (oblique plural usages, nominative singular usages, nominative plural usage)

1. usage; use
2. habit; custom

English

Etymology

road +? worn

Adjective

roadworn (comparative more roadworn, superlative most roadworn)

1. Worn out by long travel on roads, or (figuratively) in a damaged or depleted state due to constant or prolonged usage or exertion.
   • 2001, Mark Anthony, The Dark Remains, Bantam Spectra (2001), ?ISBN, page 10:

     Now that they were close, Lirith could see the vehicles were more than a little roadworn: wood cracked, gilt peeled, and dust flecked sun-faded paint.

   • 2003, James Francis Warren, Rickshaw Coolie: A People's History of Singapore, 1880-1940, Singapore University Press (2003), ?ISBN, page 275:

     When he was just beyond the house Kwan Moh Kia dropped down between the shafts, on that March afternoon in 1906, when his aorta exploded like a roadworn tyre.

   • 2011, Elizabeth C. Bunce, Liar's Moon, Arthur A. Levine Books (2011), ?ISBN, page 192:

     He looked roadworn and weary, but intact and as robust as I remembered him, considering his injury.

See also

• wayworn