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use
1. Christianity a distinctive form of liturgical or ritual observance, esp one that is traditional in a Church or group of Churches
2. the enjoyment of property, land, etc., by occupation or by deriving revenue or other benefit from it
3. Law the beneficial enjoyment of property the legal title to which is held by another person as trustee
4. Law an archaic word for trust
5. Philosophy logic linguistics the occurrence of an expression in such a context that it performs its own linguistic function rather than being itself referred to. In "Fido" refers to Fido, the name Fido is used only on the second occurrence, first being mentioned

(language)USE - An early system on the IBM 1130.

[Listed in CACM 2(5):16, May 1959].


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Peer review of books and articles habituates that naturalization.
One clear example today is how the Internet not only provides resources for more information, but habituates persons to interactive communication.
Nonetheless, a strange process called practice can habituate singers to a song and, often without wanting to, they become willing participants.
 
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