Used To

Definition: Used To

Used To

Adjective

1. In the habit; "I am used to hitchhiking"; "you'll get used to the idea"; "...was wont to complain that this is a cold world"- Henry David Thoreau.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Used To

Impulse

Wont; used to, given to, addicted to, attuned to, habituated; Verb: in the habit of; habitue; at home in; (skillful); seasoned; imbued with; devoted to, wedded to.

Crosswords: Used To

I used to eat there. (The Matrix; writing credit: Andy Wachowski; Larry Wachowski)

We didn't used to have to talk a lot, did we Daddy? (The Sweet Hereafter; writing credit: Atom Egoyan)

Everybody used to wear them, Lina. (Singin' in the Rain; writing credit: Betty Comden; Adolph Green)

I know, it's what I used to do. (Memento; writing credit: Bo Goldman; Lawrence Hauben)

I know you're just a reporter, but you used to be a person, right? (Deep Impact; writing credit: Bruce Joel Rubin; Michael Tolkin)

Called up some girl I used to know (Can't Get Used To Losing You; performing artist: Andy Williams)

Oh, play me some mountain music, like grandma and grandpa used to play. (Mountain Music; performing artist: ALABAMA; writing credit: Randy Owen)

I'm not used to liking that (Head Over Feet; performing artist: Alanis Morissette)

I used to have demons in my room at night (No More "I Love You's"; performing artist: Annie Lennox)

About a girl you used to know (Sk8er Boi; performing artist: Avril Lavigne)

Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions. (references; author: Mark Twain)

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be. (references; author: unknown)

I used to have a handle on life, but it broke. (references; author: unknown)

Just when I was getting used to yesterday, along came today. (references; author: unknown)

A father is someone who carries pictures where his money used to be. (references; author: unknown)

I Used to Be a Filmmaker (2003)

Didn't You Used To Be Somebody? (performing artist: Nick and the Animal Mind Gravenites)

This Used To Be My Playground (performing artist: Madonna)

Used to Be My Girl (performing artist: O'Jays)

Get Used to It (performing artist: Roger Voudouris)

I Used To Be Crazy (performing artist: Ray Stevens)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• The World Market for Glass Containers Used to Convey or Pack Goods, Glass Stoppers and Closures, and Glass Inners for Vacuum Vessels: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• The Same Phrase Describes My Marriage and My Breasts : Before the Kids, They Used to Be Such a Cute Couple...Notes While They Nap (reference)

• Alexander, Who Used to Be Rich Last Sunday (reference)

• Benefit-Cost Analysis of Data Used to Allocate Funds (reference)

• Enron: An Accounting Analysis of How SPEs Were Used to Conceal Debt and Avoid Losses (reference)

• The Practice of Prediction: The Astrologer's Handbook of Techniques Used to Accurately Forecast the Future (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Times Ain't Like They Used to Be: Early Rural & Popular American Music (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• This Used to Be My Playground [CD-SINGLE] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Pictured here is an experimental animal being held by a technician. Only the technician's hands and the animal are visible. The technician measures the size of a reaction of the animal due to a recent injection. A measuring device is being used to achieve the measurement. This may have been a test for the possible carcinogenic effect of a chemical. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer).

The earliest visible stage of HIV replication occurs when viral proteins accumulate under the cell membrane in a process called budding (a). In the next stage a crescent shaped early bud has constricted, forming a membrane-encapsulated sphere, with the dense center called a viral nucleoid (b). As the constricting process continues, the virus pinches off and becomes free extracellular infectious virus (c). At this stage, the dark circular mucleoid condenses into a bar; this morphologic feature is used to discriminate HIV-I from HTLV-II and HTLV-III. See artwork: GR-31. Credit: Dr. Matthew Gonda (photographer).

Structures on the terminal abdominal segments may be used to identify some mosquito genera such as the presence or absence of hair tufts. Credit: CDC.

The compound microscope on the right is used to identify mounted specimens, while the stereoscopic microscope, along with chemicals on the left is used to observe living larvae captured from the field. Credit: CDC.

"Petals" by Katherine Brandl. The symplectic leaves associated with a Poisson bracket, used to describe the primitive spectra of certain algebras.

T. Keith Glennan Shows LBJ Aluminized Mylar Flim Used to Make Echo I. Credit: NASA.

Exposures taken through separate red, green, and blue filters and used to create a color image ... Credit: NASA.

The Hubble telescope has been used to assemble a time-lapse color movie showing a full 16-hour ... Credit: NASA.

Heliotrope used for directing sun's rays to distant observer Used to illuminate station site so far distant observer could measure angles. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Boat used to transport level crew on Lake Meade. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

But if all the world shall observe pretences of one kind, and actions of another; arts used to elude the law, and the trust of prerogative (which is an arbitrary power in some things left in the prince's hand to do good, not harm to the people) employed contrary to the end for which it was given: if the people shall find the ministers and subordinate magistrates chosen suitable to such ends, and favoured, or laid by, proportionably as they promote or oppose them: if they see several experiments made of arbitrary power, and that religion underhand favoured, (tho' publicly proclaimed against) which is readiest to introduce it; and the operators in it supported, as much as may be; and when that cannot be done, yet approved still, and liked the better: if a long train of actions shew the councils all tending that way; how can a man any more hinder himself from being persuaded in his own mind, which way things are going; or from casting about how to save himself, than he could from believing the captain of the ship he was in, was carrying him, and the rest of the company, to Algiers, when he found him always steering that course, though cross winds, leaks in his ship, and want of men and provisions did often force him to turn his course another way for some time, which he steadily returned to again, as soon as the wind, weather, and other circumstances would let him? Sect. (Second Treatise of Government)

It shall be the duty of the Council in such case to recommend to the several Governments concerned what effective military, naval, or air force the Members of the League shall severally contribute to the armed forces to be used to protect the covenants of the League. (reference)

The fear of them alone might easily have been used to enforce totalitarian systems upon the free democratic world, with consequences appalling to human imagination. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

It is not likely that I should, considering what I have been used to.

Alice was not much surprised at this, she was getting so well used to queer things happening.

But the ghost sat down on the opposite side of the fireplace, as if he were quite used to it.

I used to watch and study this patriarchal personage with, I think, livelier curiosity than any other form of humanity there presented to my notice.

But now I have become used to it.

He smiled to think how the silvery noise which Mr Casey used to make had deceived him.

His answer was, the people were not used To be spoke to but by the Recorder.

Used to howl out the name of Jesus to glory.

He thought his ears being used to such abominable words, might by degrees admit them with less detestation.

They lived about a mile off through the woods, and were quite used to the route.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Antibiotics are used to kill the bacteria. (references)

Doctors used to divide RTA into four types. (references)

ERCP is used to locate stones in the ducts. (references)

Business

They used to understand security as an expense. (references)

The sand was used to landfill the nearby beaches. (references)

Meters have long been used to measure water use by industry. (references)

Children

Mexico

When physical or psychological violence is used to abuse sexually or profit from children's exploitation, the minimum and maximum penalties for these crimes are increased by up to half. (references)

Antigua and Barbuda

UNICEF helped support a study of the needs of children and families, and its recommendations are being used to develop a National Plan of Action on Child Survival, Development, and Protection. (references)

Malaysia

Such a girl may be charged with "khalwat" or "close proximity" (the charge usually used to prosecute premarital or extramarital sexual relations), even if she is under the age of 18 and her partner is an adult. (references)

Civil Liberties

Kuwait

It is not used to suspend or shut down existing newspapers. (references)

Nigeria

However, state funds also are used to fund Christian pilgrimages to Jerusalem. (references)

Finland

These church taxes are used to defray the costs of operating the state churches. (references)

Economic History

Hong Kong

They are not used to finance expenditures. (references)

Indonesia

The proceeds were used to fund the development budget. (references)

Russia

Tver Oblast used to produce up to 40% of all flax in Russia. (references)

Human Rights

Algeria

Violence by terrorist groups also is used to extort money. (references)

Pakistan

FIR's frequently are used to harass or intimidate individuals. (references)

Panama

As a result, regular PNP officers still are used to fill staffing gaps. (references)

Minorities

Moldova

Russian speakers are not discriminated against in practice, and the law has not been used to deny them work as state officials. (references)

Croatia

Religion and ethnicity are closely linked in society, and religion often was used to identify and single out non-Croats for discriminatory practices; however, most such incidents appeared to be motivated by ethnicity and not religion or religious doctrine. (references)

Political Economy

TUNISIA

The high tariffs are often used to protect locally produced items from competition. (references)

Political Rights

Zimbabwe

Parliamentary question time is used to force debate and disclosure. (references)

Gambia

Procedural methods are used to restrict debate within the National Assembly. (references)

Congo

This law could be used to exclude opponents from the political process, and the threat of charges under this law may dissuade political figures that are in exile from returning to the country. (references)

Trade

Ghana

Under the CVC several methods are being used to assess the value of imports. (references)

Colombia

Often the appropriate reference price is not used to assess the import duty. (references)

Italy

They may be used to cover several shipments within the total quantity authorized. (references)

Travel

Taiwan

For most cities, the meter is used to calculate the fare. (references)

South Africa

Overseas credit cards such as American Express, Master Card, Visa, and Diners Club can be used to pay locally. (references)

Mexico

Messengers and private delivery services routinely are used to deliver correspondence both intra- and inter-city. (references)

Women

Tajikistan

The threat of rape often is used to intimidate women. (references)

Ukraine

Many women's rights advocates expressed concern that the law may be used to bar women from the best paying blue-collar jobs. (references)

Singapore

However, other laws, such as those prohibiting insulting modesty and the Miscellaneous Offences Act, successfully are used to prosecute these two offenses. (references)

Worker Rights

Iran

No information is available regarding mechanisms used to set wages. (references)

Czech Republic

There also are other relevant statutes that can be used to prosecute traffickers. (references)

Russia

Several articles of the Criminal Code may be used to prosecute trafficking effected by force. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "used to": be used to ♦ be used to doing ♦ be used to doing smth. ♦ be used to smth. ♦ become used to ♦ get smb. used to ♦ get used to ♦ get used to a different lifestyle ♦ get used to doing smth. ♦ get used to it ♦ get used to smth. ♦ get used to the work ♦ grow used to ♦ machine used to grecquer the backs of unsewn books. Additional references.

Albanian

i mësuar me (accustomed). (various references)

Arabic 

‏تعود (be accustomed to, familiarization, fixation, get into a rut, get used to it, habituation, settle, take, take on, wont), ‏تعايش معها (get used to it). (various references)

Bulgarian 

свикнал (accustomed to, used, wont), привикнал (accustomed to, used). (various references)

Chinese 

慣 (accustomed to). (various references)

Czech

zvyklý na (accustomed to). (various references)

Danish

vanlig (accustomed, common, customary, ordinary, usual, wonted), sædvanlig (accustomed, common, customary, ordinary, usual, wonted), almindelig (accustomed, common, customary, general, ordinary, universal, usual, wonted, worldwide). (various references)

Dutch

gewoon (accustomed, common, customary, everyday, normally, ordinary, usual, wonted), gebruikelýk (accustomed, customary, usual, wonted). (various references)

Esperanto

kutima (accustomed, customary, usual, wonted). (various references)

Finnish

totuttautua (accustom oneself, get into the habit, get used to), tottumaton (not used to, unaccustomed, unfamiliar with, unused to), tottua (accustom oneself to, become accustomed to, get used to), tasomittari (level measuring set(L.M.S.), LMS.When used to measure through levels, the input impedance must be high relative to that of the circuit under test), tässä oli ennen talo (there used to be a house here), olla tottunut johonkin (be used to), minulla oli tapana (I used to), austeniittisen teräksen sammutus (the term quenching of austenic steel - supercooling is also used to denote a treatment resulting in minor amounts of martensite in addition to the austenite), aikanani asuin siellä (at one time I used to live there). (various references)

French

habituel (used, usual), accoutumé (usual). (various references)

Frisian

gewoan (accustomed, customary, usual, wonted), bewend (accustomed, customary, usual, wonted). (various references)

German

geläufig (accustomed, common, current, customary, easy, facile, familiar, fluent, free, prevalent, smooth, unchecked, usual, voluble, volubly, wonted), üblich (accustomed, common, conventional, customary, everyday, general, normal, ordinary, standard, traditional, usual, vulgar, wonted). (various references)

Greek 

συνηθισμένοσ (accustomed, common, conventional, customary, habitual, ordinary, usual, wont, wonted). (various references)

Hebrew 

מור�'ל (accustomed, habitual, habituated, used). (various references)

Hungarian

szokott volt. (various references)

Icelandic

venjulegur (accustomed, common, customary, ordinary, usual, wonted). (various references)

Italian

usuale (accustomed, common, customary, everyday, ordinary, stock, usual, wonted), consueto (accustomed, customary, familiar, habitually, usual, wonted). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

か弱い (be dejected, body trembling, calculating, chattering, Cheer up!, chipping, clash, clatter, crash, dry or rough feeling, feeble, feel disappointed, feel emotionally drained, feel let down, firmly, frail, frozen solid, heartbroken, lose heart, overly serious, peanut brittle, rattle, rummage, rustling, shrewd, slam, solidly, solidly built, something come loose, tick-tock, tightly, tough, with a bang, with a clank), ワープロ馬鹿 (business shirt, dead silence after a joke falls flat, food wagon service, multi-national enterprise, news program, shirt, someone whose kanji-writing ability has suffered due to overreliance on the kana->kanji conversion systems used to input Japanese text on a computer, table-side service, talk and varietyshow, vaccine, vagina, vaseline, wacoal, Wagner, wagon, wagon sale, Waikiki, warlock, washer, Washington, Washington Post, WASP, watt, wax, wide, wide-angle lens, wide-band, wife, wild, wild pitch, windshield wipers, windup, wine, wine color, wine glass, wine list, wine red, winecooler, winery, wipe, wipe in, wipe out, wire, wire glass, wired, wireless, wireless mike, wire-wrapping, wise, wivern, working holiday, workshop, World, world class, World Cup, world enterprise, World Games, World Series, worm, wow, wow and flutter, Wyoming, wyvern), 旁点 (marks or dots used to emphasize text passage, marks to facilitate reading of kanbun), 慣れ親しむ (to become familiar with, to get used to), きか�"気 (accurately, brisk, clearly, close, creak, daring, distinctly, energetic, exactly, intense, lively, perfectly, plainly, precisely, squeak, tight, tightly, unyielding), 乗りつける (to get used to riding, to ride up to), 乗り付ける (to get used to riding, to ride up to), 住めば都 (you can get used to living anywhere), 住み慣れる (to get used to living in), 吸い付ける (to attract, to be used to), 仕付ける (to baste, to be used to a job, to begin to do, to plant, to tack), 二十四節気 (24 divisions of the solar year, 24 terms used to denote the changing of the seasons), �"れと同じ (complaining about various things, confusion, easily, effortlessly, game of make-believe, huddle, in this way, jarring sound, jumble, like this, mess, misspelling of "ko n ba n ha", misspelling of "kon ni chi ha", mix, rummaging sound, small and round thing rolling, so, something done together, something that changes frequently, such, suddenly, the same as this, trouble, utterly), 傍点 (marks or dots used to emphasize text passage, marks to facilitate reading of kanbun), タイ国 (dinner suit, taxi, Thailand, towel, towel-blanket, towelket, town, tuxedo, type of bed linen resembling a large beach towel and used to cover oneself in hot weather), 呼び慣れる (to be used to calling), 呼びつける (to get used to call, to summon), 呼び付ける (to get used to call, to summon), 世馴れる (to become used to theworld, to become worldly or sophisticated), 世慣れる (to become used to theworld, to become worldly or sophisticated), 吸いつける (to attract, to be used to), 仕馴れる (to be experienced in, to be used to doing), 笑納 (humble term used to refer to another's acceptance of one's present), 聞き慣れる (to get used to hearing), 麹 (leaven, malt, mould used to make sake, yeast), 麦�"� (rice field used to grow wheat), 食べつける (to be used to eating), 食べ付ける (to be used to eating), 遣りつける (to argue into silence, to be accustomed to, to be used to, to talk down), 遣り付ける (to argue into silence, to be accustomed to, to be used to, to talk down), 鋤簾 (bamboo winnow used to sift earth or sand), 見馴れる (to be familiar with, to become used to seeing), 井の中の蛙大海�'知らず (parochial, provincial, used to encourage someone to get a wider perspective), � 称 (word used to indicate a distant spatial relationship), 人馴れ (tame, used to people), 磨汁 (water that has been used to wash rice), 火掻き (a poker, fire iron used to rake ash), 火吹き竹 (bamboo blowpipe used to stimulate a fire), 竹箆 (bamboo spatula, bamboo stick used to strike meditators into greater wakefulness), 痛�' (bittercriticism, severe attack, stick used to strike inattentive Zen meditators), 節気 (24 divisions of the solar year, 24 terms used to denote the changing of the seasons), � ��"矢 (arrow used to drive off evil), � ��"�" (bow used to drive off evil, toy bow and arrow), 聞き馴れる (to get used to hearing), 見慣れる (to be familiar with, to become used to seeing). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

よなれる (to become used to theworld, to become worldly or sophisticated), え�"しょう (fence, gunpowder, hedge, inflammation, seductive smile, spread of fire, word used to indicate a distant spatial relationship), せっき (24 divisions of the solar year, 24 terms used to denote the changing of the seasons, earthenware, end of year or season, stone implement, year end), いのなかのかわずたいかい�'しらず (parochial, provincial, used to encourage someone to get a wider perspective), �"うじ (affairs after one's death, alley, bait, construction work, curious, decoy, edict, fortune, future affairs, good deed, government business, higher-order-, lane, leaven, lure, malt, meta-, mould used to make sake, mouth and ear, public announcement, yeast), �"�"�"�" , むぎた (rice field used to grow wheat), つうぼう (bittercriticism, collusion, conspiring, severe attack, stick used to strike inattentive Zen meditators), タウルケット (towelket, type of bed linen resembling a large beach towel and used to cover oneself in hot weather), のりつける (to get used to riding, to ride up to), よびなれる (to be used to calling), よびつける (to get used to call, to summon), じょれ�" (bamboo winnow used to sift earth or sand), みなれる (to be familiar with, to become used to seeing), はまゆみ (bow used to drive off evil, toy bow and arrow), はまや (arrow used to drive off evil), とぎしる (water that has been used to wash rice), やりつける (to argue into silence, to be accustomed to, to be used to, to talk down), しつける (to baste, to be used to a job, to begin to do, to discipline, to plant, to tack, to teach manners, to train), すいつける (to attract, to be used to), すめばみや�" (you can get used to living anywhere), すみなれる (to get used to living in), がー , ワープロばか (someone whose kanji-writing ability has suffered due to overreliance on the kana->kanji conversion systems used to input Japanese text on a computer), ききなれる (to get used to hearing), にじゅうしせっき (24 divisions of the solar year, 24 terms used to denote the changing of the seasons), なれしたしむ (to become familiar with, to get used to), たべつける (to be used to eating), しっぺい (bamboo stick used to strike meditators into greater wakefulness, disease, illness), しょうのう (camphor, cerebellum, humble term used to refer to another's acceptance of one's present, small farmer), きちきち , ひふき� け (bamboo blowpipe used to stimulate a fire), ひかき (a poker, fire iron used to rake ash), ひとなれ (tame, used to people), ぼうて�" (marks or dots used to emphasize text passage, marks to facilitate reading of kanbun), しなれる (to be experienced in, to be used to doing). (various references)

Malay

biasa (accustomed, common, customary, ordinary, usual, wonted). (various references)

Norwegian

vanlig (accustomed, common, customary, ordinary, usual, wonted). (various references)

Papiamen

usual (accustomed, customary, usual, wonted), komun (accustomed, common, customary, daily, joint, usual, wonted), hewon (accustomed, customary, usual, wonted), gewon (accustomed, customary, usual, wonted). (various references)

Pig Latin

edusay otay

Portuguese

usual (accustomed, common, customary, general, habitual, inevitable, ordinary, orthodox, regular, usual, wonted), costumava, acostumado (accustomed, wont). (various references)

Romanian

obişnuit (accustomed, average, common, commonplace, customarily, customary, frequent, frequently, habitual, habitually, habitue, normal, ordinary, regular, rife, routine, standard, usual, usually, wonted, workaday). (various references)

Russian 

привыкший к. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

naviknut (accustomed). (various references)

Spanish

usado a, sólido (body, chunky, fast, filling, firm, hard, massy, meaty, robust, solid, stable, stout, strong, sturdy, substantial), querido (beloved, best, cherished, darling, dear, deary, desire, inamorato, love, loved one, lover, my dear, precious, sweetheart, Sweeting, well-beloved). (various references)

Sranan

gwenti (accustomed, customary, usual, wonted). (various references)

Swedish

vanlig (accustomed, common, customary, familiar, frequent, habitual, ordinary, ornery, plain, regular, straight, unexceptional, usual, wonted), van vid (accustomed to), ordinär (accustomed, average, common, customary, ordinary, usual, wonted), gemen (accustomed, base, currish, customary, dirty, filthy, foul, friendly, ignoble, infamous, low, low down, lowercase, low-minded, mean, odious, scurvy, sociable, usual, wicked, wonted), gångbar (accustomed, current, customary, negotiable, passable, practicable, usual, wonted), bruklig (accustomed, customary, ordinary, usual, wonted), övlig (accustomed, customary, usual, wonted). (various references)

Turkish

bayaği (accustomed, customary, usual, wonted), alixik (accustomed, customary, usual, wonted), alelade (accustomed, common, customary, ordinary, usual, wonted), alışkın (accustomed, trained), alışık (accustomed, familiar). (various references)

Turkmen 

uяgunlaюmak (get used to), цwreniюmek (become accustomed, get used to). (various references)

Ukrainian

звичний (accustomed, chronic, consuetudinary, customary, habitual, normal, old, ordinary, regular, wonted). (various references)

adsuescat, adsuesco assuesco, adsuetus. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: ousted, toused.

-1 letter: doest, dotes, douse, duets, outed, touse.

-2 letters: does, dose, dost, dote, dots, dues, duet, duos, dust, odes, ouds, oust, outs, stud, sued, suet, teds, tods, toed, toes, udos, used.

-3 letters: doe, dos, dot, due, duo, eds, ode, ods, oes, ose, oud, out, set, sod, sot, sou, sue, ted, tod, toe, udo, use, uts.

+1 letter: detours, dourest, duteous, jousted, loudest, outdoes, outside, outsped, redouts, rousted, scouted, shouted, snouted, southed, spouted, tedious, testudo, tousled, tuxedos.

+2 letters: contused, costumed, couldest, custodes, demounts, dextrous, doublets, doubters, duotones, eductors, fadeouts, hideouts, mudstone, obtrudes, outasked, outdares, outdates, outdoers, outdress, outduels, outmodes, outreads, outrides, outsider, outsides, outsized, outspeed, outspend, postlude, postured, proudest, readouts, redoubts, roundest, solitude, soundest, sprouted, stounded, stuccoed, subdepot, testudos, toluides, tonsured, tuxedoes, unposted, unsorted, unstoned, uptossed, wideouts, wouldest.