📖 U — The English dictionary · page 23

uric — Everyday, meaning 1: Uric means to do with urine (wee).↗ It is used mainly in «uric acid», a waste chemical made in the body and taken out in urine.↗ Example: Uric acid is a waste product made by the body.↗ · Bird droppings are white because they contain uric acid.↗ · The doctor tested the man's blood for uric acid.↗ · Too much uric acid can cause gout in the toes.↗ · Reptiles get rid of waste as uric acid to save water.↗ · The kidneys help remove uric acid from the blood.↗

urinal — Everyday, meaning 1: A urinal is a kind of toilet on a wall, used by men and boys for weeing (urinating) while standing up, found in public and school toilets.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A urinal can also be a bottle used in hospital for a patient to wee into.↗ Example: The boys' toilets have three urinals and two cubicles.↗ · Remember to wash your hands after using the urinal.↗ · Some urinals flush automatically.↗ · In hospital, the nurse gave Grandad a urinal so he didn't have to get up.↗ · Waterless urinals save water.↗

urinate — Everyday, meaning 1: (formal or medical) To urinate means to pass urine (wee, pee) out of the body.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: It is the polite, scientific word that doctors and science books use; in everyday talk children say "wee" (UK, Australia) or "pee" (USA).↗ Example: The kidneys clean the blood and make urine, and we urinate to get rid of it.↗ · Drinking lots of water makes you urinate more often.↗ · The doctor asked if it hurt when he urinated.↗ · Dogs urinate on lampposts to mark their area.↗ · The sign said "Do not urinate in the pool".↗ · Most people urinate about six or seven times a day.↗

urination — Everyday, meaning 1: (formal, science, medicine) Urination is the act of passing urine (wee) out of the body.↗ Example: Urination removes waste water from the body.↗ · The kidneys make urine, and urination gets rid of it.↗ · Drinking lots of water leads to more frequent urination.↗ · The doctor asked about any pain during urination.↗ · Animals use urination to mark their territory.↗ · Babies can't control urination yet, so they wear nappies.↗

urine — Everyday, meaning 1: Urine is the yellow liquid waste that your body makes in the kidneys and passes out when you go to the toilet.↗ Example: Your kidneys make urine.↗ · Urine is stored in the bladder.↗ · Pale urine means you are drinking enough water.↗ · The doctor tested a urine sample.↗ · Animals mark their land with urine.↗ · Drink more water if your urine is dark.↗

urn — Everyday, meaning 1: An urn is a tall vase, often with a lid, used for decoration or to hold the ashes of a person who has died.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: An urn is also a large metal container with a tap, used for making and serving tea or coffee.↗ Example: Grandpa's ashes are in an urn on the shelf.↗ · The church hall has a big tea urn.↗ · The ancient Greeks made beautiful urns.↗ · Be careful, the urn is hot.↗ · The urn was filled with flowers.↗ · We poured tea from the urn at the fair.↗ · When all was consumed the bones of Patroclus were carefully collected and inclosed in a golden urn.↗

usa — Everyday, meaning 1: The USA (the United States of America) is a large country in North America made of 50 states, with Washington, D.C. as its capital.↗ Example: The USA has 50 states.↗ · Washington, D.C. is the capital of the USA.↗ · My cousins live in the USA.↗ · The USA is between Canada and Mexico.↗ · In the USA people measure distance in miles.↗ · The flag of the USA has 50 stars.↗ · We flew from London to the USA.↗ · Alaska is the biggest state in the USA.↗

usable — Everyday, meaning 1: Usable means able to be used, or in a good enough state to be used.↗ Example: The old bike is rusty but still usable.↗ · Only half of the paper was usable after the spill.↗ · We cleared the shed to make it usable again.↗ · The garden has 20 square metres of usable space.↗ · Is this pencil usable, or is it too short?↗ · After the storm, the road was not usable for cars.↗

usage — Everyday, meaning 1: Usage is the way words are used in a language, including what is right and normal.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Usage is how much of something is used: water usage, data usage.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Usage is the way something is used or treated.↗ Example: The word "cool" has a new usage meaning great.↗ · Our electricity usage goes up in winter.↗ · Check your phone's data usage.↗ · This word is not in common usage any more.↗ · The chart shows daily water usage.↗ · Rough usage broke the toy.↗ · Usage notes in the dictionary help with grammar.↗ · If usage is 20 litres a day, a week's usage is 140 litres.↗ · He deferred, however, to universal usage when he entitled his volume "Les Contes en prose de Charles Perrault."↗

use — Everyday, meaning 1: To use something is to do something with it for a job or purpose: use a pencil to write.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: When you use paint, food or money, some of it is gone: use 2 eggs.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A use is a purpose or way something can be used: a brick has many uses.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: The use of something is the act of using it, or the right to use it.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: «It's no use» means it will not help.↗ Example: She uses 2 eggs for each cake.↗ · He used 15 of his 40 stickers.↗ · How many cups does she use in a week?↗ · They use 3 liters of water a day.↗ · Use a ruler to draw a straight line.↗ · Can I use your phone, please?↗ · Reuse old jars to store buttons.↗ · It's no use crying about it.↗ · ‘Who’s been using my little fork?’↗ · Thou shalt betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her; thou shalt build a house, and thou shalt not dwell therein; thou shalt plant a vineyard, and shalt not use the fruit thereof.↗ (Torah DEU.28.30, JPS 1917)↗ · And what man is there that hath planted a vineyard, and hath not used the fruit thereof? let him go and return unto his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man use the fruit thereof.↗ (Torah DEU.20.6, JPS 1917)↗ · With a בּ following after it, signifies: to make use of any thing.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)↗ · Behold, I am against the prophets, saith the LORD, that use their tongues and say: 'He saith.'↗ (Prophets JER.23.31, JPS 1917)↗ · Behold, every one that useth proverbs shall use this proverb against thee, saying: As the mother, so her daughter.↗ (Prophets EZK.16.44, JPS 1917)↗ · Again shalt thou plant vineyards upon the mountains of Samaria; the planters shall plant, and shall have the use thereof.↗ (Prophets JER.31.5, JPS 1917)↗

used — Everyday, meaning 1: Used is the past form of use: she used her pen.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Used means not new, owned before by someone else: a used car.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: «Used to» + verb tells about something that happened often in the past but not now.↗ e.g. I used to live in Ohio.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: «Be used to» means know something well so it is not strange.↗ e.g. I am used to the cold.↗ Example: She used 6 of her 20 pencils.↗ · A used bike costs 40 dollars.↗ · He used to have 12 fish.↗ · How much paint was used?↗ · We bought used books at the fair.↗ · I used to be scared of the dark.↗ · She is used to getting up early.↗ · Put used batteries in the special bin.↗ · You used to give me pictures."↗ · Now Moses used to take the tent and to pitch it without the camp, afar off from the camp; and he called it The tent of meeting.↗ (Torah EXO.33.7, JPS 1917)↗ · And the fat of that which dieth of itself, and the fat of that which is torn of beasts, may be used for any other service; but ye shall in no wise eat of it.↗ (Torah LEV.7.24, JPS 1917)↗ · And what man is there that hath planted a vineyard, and hath not used the fruit thereof? let him go and return unto his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man use the fruit thereof.↗ (Torah DEU.20.6, JPS 1917)↗ · Now the bands of the Moabites used to invade the land at the coming in of the year.↗ (Prophets 2KI.13.20, JPS 1917)↗ · A wild ass used to the wilderness, that snuffeth up the wind in her desire; her lust, who can hinder it?↗ (Prophets JER.2.24, JPS 1917)↗ · And his father went down unto the woman; and Samson made there a feast; for so used the young men to do.↗ (Prophets JDG.14.10, JPS 1917)↗

useful — Everyday, meaning 1: Something useful helps you do something or is good for a purpose.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A useful person helps a lot.↗ Example: A ruler is useful for drawing straight lines.↗ · Thanks, that was really useful advice.↗ · Worms are useful because they make soil healthy.↗ · It's useful to know your phone number by heart.↗ · A torch is useful when the lights go out.↗ · She made herself useful by setting the table.↗ · Which tool would be most useful here?↗ · Could anything be more exciting or more useful?↗ · Google's mission is to organize the world's information and to make it universally accessible and useful.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗

useless — Everyday, meaning 1: Not useful; not able to do its job.↗ e.g. "A broken umbrella is useless."↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Having no effect.↗ e.g. "It's useless to argue."↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Informally, very bad at something.↗ e.g. "I'm useless at drawing."↗ Example: This pen is useless; it has no ink.↗ · A torch without batteries is useless.↗ · It's useless to shout; nobody can hear us.↗ · Some numbers in the problem are useless for the answer.↗ · I felt useless when I could not help.↗ · Don't say you are useless at maths; just keep practising.↗ · Precautions are useless after the event.↗ · I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind; I am like a useless vessel.↗ (Writings PSA.31.13, JPS 1917)↗

user — Everyday, meaning 1: A person who uses something, such as a computer, a phone, an app, a road or a library.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A person who takes drugs or other harmful substances (drug user).↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (informal) A person who uses other people for their own gain and gives nothing back.↗ Example: Every user needs a password to log in.↗ · Choose a user name that doesn't show your real name.↗ · This app is very user-friendly.↗ · Cyclists and walkers are road users too.↗ · The library has thousands of users each week.↗ · The user guide explains how to set up the printer.↗ · Don't be a user — help your friends back when they need it.↗ · Do not assume that just because we believe a book is in the public domain for users in the United States, that the work is also in the public domain for users in other countries.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗

useth — Early Modern English, meaning 1: «useth» means «uses», a form of «use»: To use something is to do something with it for a job or purpose: use a pencil to write.↗ Example: There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, one that useth divination, a soothsayer, or an enchanter, or a sorcerer,↗ (Torah DEU.18.10, JPS 1917)

usher — Everyday, meaning 1: An usher is a person who shows people to their seats or into a room, especially in a hall or a palace.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To usher someone is to lead or show them politely into a place.↗ Example: Here likewise the ushers abandoned their posts.↗ · If he was dumbfounded, the merchant, who was ushered into his presence soon after sunrise, was much more so.↗

usual — Everyday, meaning 1: Usual means what normally happens or what is done most of the time.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: As usual means in the same way as always.↗ Example: I will meet you at the usual place.↗ · As usual, Tom was late.↗ · It is colder than usual today.↗ · We had the usual cereal for breakfast.↗ · The shop is closed earlier than usual.↗ · Is it usual for owls to fly in the daytime?↗ No, it is unusual.↗ · Lunch is at the usual time.↗ · She smiled, as usual.↗ · ‘Do not forget your usual good custom.↗ · Adun or Adon, or Adonai, ADNI, are commonly translated L(?yi; Eliun, OLIUN, is the more usual form of " the most high one."↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · In usual Hebrew grammatical terminology, the term ‘mothers’ is reserved for the אִמּוֹת קְרִיאָה immot qeriʼah, ‘mothers of reading’ (whence Latin matres lectionis), the letters אהו״י Alef-Heh-Waw-Yod which can serve to represent either consonants or vowels.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗

usually — Everyday, meaning 1: In most cases; most of the time.↗ e.g. "I usually walk to school."↗ Everyday, meaning 2: As normally happens.↗ e.g. "The shop is usually open."↗ Example: I usually go to bed at eight.↗ · Cats usually sleep a lot.↗ · It usually snows in winter here.↗ · The bus is usually on time.↗ · We usually have pizza on Fridays.↗ · Dogs usually wag their tails when happy.↗ · She is usually the first to answer.↗ · It usually takes ten minutes to walk.↗ · In his absence things are usually quiet on the island.↗ · Body ; the word is GUP, usually applied to the animal material body, but here means '' one whole."↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · However, this is grammatically peculiar, as immot is usually only the construct plural of אֵם em 'mother', whose absolute plural is rather אִמָּהוֹת immahot.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗ · Although Resh is usually thought to belong to the letters which cannot normally receive a dagesh, this was apparently not the case for these traditions.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗