单词 | to come into use |
释义 | > as lemmasto come (also fall, go, etc.) into use P2. to come (also fall, go, etc.) into use: to be introduced into customary or habitual employment or practice; to begin to be used; esp. (of vocabulary, syntax, etc.) to be introduced into common usage. ΚΠ c1400 Bk. to Mother (Bodl.) 129 (MED) Þoruȝ ofte doinge, synnes com into use, and fro use to consuetude. 1609 T. Morton Catholike Appeale iv. xxv. 551 Vntill men had a while trembled at the vnderstanding of a fierie Purgatory, Indulgences did not come into vse. 1664 J. Forster Englands Happiness Increased 23 When these Roots shall once come into use, People will live more happily and plentifully. 1721 J. Strype Eccl. Memorials II. i. xxv. 212 The Troubles..gave great Hopes to the Popishly affected Subjects, that the old Mass would come into Use again. 1742 J. Martyn & E. Chambers tr. Philos. Hist. & Mem. Royal Acad. III. 91 The clear augmentation of distant objects requires..very large spheres, which is impracticable, and does not fall into use. 1837 J. Marsh tr. D. H. Hegewisch Introd. to Hist. Chronol. 57 With this 1st of January the new Calendar went into use. 1879 M. J. Guest Lect. Hist. Eng. l. 508 Two wonderful instruments had lately come into use. 1890 Sat. Rev. 8 Feb. 175/2 This word came into use to express [etc.]. 1901 F. Brinkley Oriental Series: Japan I. iii. 53 Such titles as ‘great body’..were employed as terms of respect, and ultimately passed into use as official titles. 1922 Woman's World (Chicago) Nov. 20/1 (advt.) Many long months of indoor weather are ahead, before golf sticks, fishing kit..come into use again. 2007 Chicago Tribune (Midwest ed.) 23 Nov. i. 10/1 Soon after 9/11, the term ‘new normal’ came into use to describe activities that before that cataclysmic event would have seemed strange if not downright weird but are now regarded as routine. < as lemmas |
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