different between utilise vs maneuver

English

Alternative forms

• utilize (American, Canadian, Oxford British spelling)

Etymology

From French utiliser, from Italian utilizzare, from utile (“useful”), from Latin ?tilis, from ?t? (“use”). Attested c. 1810.

Verb

utilise (third-person singular simple present utilises, present participle utilising, simple past and past participle utilised)

1. To make use of; to use.
2. To make useful; to find a practical use for.
3. To make best use of; to use to its fullest extent, potential, or ability.
4. To make do with; to use in manner different from that originally intended

Usage notes

Many style guides have advised against utilize and utilise, arguing that the simpler verb use is always preferable (and analogously, that the noun use is preferable to utilization and utilisation). When used simply as a synonym in ordinary writing (as in “please utilise the rear door when exiting the aircraft”) it can strike readers as pretentious, and so should be used sparingly. American novelist David Foster Wallace calls it a puff word. Op-ed editor of The Los Angeles Time Juliet Lapidos "There are many bad words in English, but only one worst word. That word is utilize" . Another writer Stephen Heard asserts "there is never any good reason to use the word “utilize”" and provides extensive arguments against any utilisation especially in scientific writing .

It does not follow that because some speakers eschew a particular usage, it must be everywhere redundant. Utilise is suited to senses in which use would require circumlocution. Examples of such senses include “put to use”, as in “...utilise the production capacities of the local industries fully before ordering from foreign industries.” “exploit or consume”, as in “...utilise the support that the system provides, such as by making the most of tax exemptions and special supplies.” or “make best use of” (profitable, practical use, not just general use), as in “...farmers must utilise their land fully to boost food security”. Further, in American usage, utilize can imply use outside an object’s intended purpose, as in “...our airmen utilized damaged drop tanks in the field, cutting them open for bathtubs”.

Synonyms

• employ
• exploit
• use

Derived terms

• utilisation
• utilisable
• utiliser

Translations

References

French

Verb

utilise

1. first-person singular present indicative of utiliser
2. third-person singular present indicative of utiliser
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of utiliser
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of utiliser
5. second-person singular imperative of utiliser

English

Alternative forms

• manoeuvre (Commonwealth, Irish)
• maneuvre, manoeuver (nonstandard)
• manœuver, manœuvre (British, archaic)

Etymology

From Middle French manœuvre (“manipulation, maneuver”) and manouvrer (“to maneuver”), from Old French manovre (“handwork, manual labor”), from Medieval Latin manopera, manuopera (“work done by hand, handwork”), from manu (“by hand”) + operari (“to work”). First recorded in the Capitularies of Charlemagne (800 AD) to mean "chore, manual task", probably as a calque of the Frankish *handwerc (“hand-work”). Compare Old English handweorc, Old English hand?eweorc, German Handwerk. The verb is a doublet of the verb manure.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /m??nu?v?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /m??nu?v?/
• Hyphenation: ma?neu?ver
• Rhymes: -u?v?(?)

Noun

maneuver (plural maneuvers) (American spelling)

1. (military) The planned movement of troops, vehicles etc.; a strategic repositioning; (later also) a large training field-exercise of fighting units. [from 18th c.]

   The army was on maneuvers.

   Joint NATO maneuvers are as much an exercise in diplomacy as in tactics and logistics.

2. Any strategic or cunning action; a stratagem. [from 18th c.]
   • 1782, Frances Burney, Cecilia, III.v.7:

     “This,” cried he, “is a manœuvre I have been some time expecting: but Mr. Harrel, though artful and selfish, is by no means deep.”

3. A movement of the body, or with an implement, instrument etc., especially one performed with skill or dexterity. [from 18th c.]
4. (medicine) A specific medical or surgical movement, often eponymous, done with the doctor's hands or surgical instruments. [from 18th c.]

   The otorhinolaryngologist performed an Epley maneuver and the patient was relieved of his vertigo.

5. A controlled (especially skilful) movement taken while steering a vehicle. [from 18th c.]

   Parallel parking can be a difficult maneuver.

Translations

Verb

maneuver (third-person singular simple present maneuvers, present participle maneuvering, simple past and past participle maneuvered) (American spelling)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To move (something, or oneself) carefully, and often with difficulty, into a certain position.
2. (figuratively, transitive) To guide, steer, manage purposefully
3. (figuratively, intransitive) To intrigue, manipulate, plot, scheme

   The patriarch maneuvered till his offspring occupied countless key posts

Translations

Anagrams

• maneuvre