use

1. (uncountable) The act of consuming alcohol or narcotics.Examples: "Heavy alcohol use (2.5 drinks per day or more) at any age is unhealthy and should be avoided."uncountable

2. (uncountable, followed by "of") Usefulness, benefit.Examples: "What's the use of a law that nobody follows?"; "God made two great lights, great for their use / To man."; "'Tis use alone that sanctifies expense."Synonyms: benefit, good, point, usefulness, utility, note, naituncountable

3. (obsolete, rare) Interest for lent money; premium paid for the use of something; usury.Examples: "DON PEDRO. Come, lady, come; you have lost the heart of Signior Benedick. BEATRICE. Indeed, my lord, he lent it me awhile; and I gave him use for it, a double heart for a single one: [...]"; "Thou art more obliged to pay duty and tribute, use and principal, to him."countableobsoleterareuncountable

4. (archaic) Continued or repeated practice; usage; habit.Examples: "Let later age that noble vse enuie,"; "How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable, / Seem to me all the uses of this world!"; "For the next yeere 1527. the negotiations of a Councell were buried in silence; according to the vse of humane affaires, that in the time of warre, prouision for lawes hath no place."archaiccountableuncountable

5. (obsolete) Common occurrence; ordinary experience.Examples: "O Caesar! these things are beyond all use."countableobsoleteuncountable

6. (Christianity) A special form of a rite adopted for use in a particular context, often a diocese.Examples: "the Sarum, or Canterbury, use; the York use; the Ordinariate use"; "From henceforth all the whole realm shall have but one use."countableuncountable