| 单词 | utility |
| 释义 | utility (once / 439 pages) 1nadj 2n 3n 4adj If you live in a place where the temperature never drops below 60 degrees Fahrenheit, and someone gives you a snow-blower for your birthday, you might question the gift’s utility, meaning its “usefulness.” Utility means “of practical use.” We refer to government facilities that provide water, electricity and natural gas as public utilities. Utility is similar to the word utilize, which is basically a stuffy word for use. WORD FAMILYutility: utilitarian, utilities+/utilisation: overutilisation/utilise: utilisation, utilised, utiliser, utilises, utilising, utility/utilitarian: utilitarianism, utilitarians/utilitarianism: utilitarianisms USAGE EXAMPLESTens of thousands lost power in Louisiana and Mississippi at the height of the storm, according to utilities. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) Many utility companies offer free energy audits to their customers. Washington Post(Dec 22, 2016) More than 11,000 customers were without power as of Monday afternoon in Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi because of the storm, utility companies reported. Reuters(Jan 02, 2017) 1 1n the quality of being of practical use Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper usefulness inutility, unusefulness, uselessness the quality of having no practical use detergence, detergency detergent quality; the quality of having cleansing power function, purpose, role, usewhat something is used for helpfulnessthe property of providing useful assistance usea particular service serviceability, serviceableness, usability, usableness, useablenessthe quality of being able to provide good service instrumentalitythe quality of being instrumental for some purpose practicalityconcerned with actual use rather than theoretical possibilities practicability, practicablenessthe quality of being usable raison d'etrethe purpose that justifies a thing's existence avail, help, servicea means of serving functionalitycapable of serving a purpose well viabilitycapable of being done in a practical and useful way sensiblenessthe quality of showing good sense or practical judgment pragmatism, realismthe attribute of accepting the facts of life and favoring practicality and literal truth feasibility, feasiblenessthe quality of being doable quality an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone 2n (economics) a measure that is to be maximized in any situation involving choice Hypo|Hyper marginal utility (economics) the amount that utility increases with an increase of one unit of an economic good or service metric, system of measurement a system of related measures that facilitates the quantification of some particular characteristic 3adj used of beef; usable but inferior 2Syn utility-grade inferior of low or inferior quality 1n a facility composed of one or more pieces of equipment connected to or part of a structure and designed to provide a service such as heat or electricity or water or sewage disposal the price of the house included all utilities Hypo|Hyper electrical plant, electrical system utility that provides electricity heat, heating, heating plant, heating systemutility to warm a building plumbing, plumbing systemutility consisting of the pipes and fixtures for the distribution of water or gas in a building and for the disposal of sewage central heatinga heating system in which air or water is heated at a central furnace and sent through the building via vents or pipes and radiators gas heatheating system that burns natural gas panel heatingheating system consisting of wall or floor or baseboard or ceiling panels containing electric conductors or heating pipes steam heat, steam heatinga heating system in which steam is generated in boilers and piped to radiators facility, installation a building or place that provides a particular service or is used for a particular industry 2n the service (electric power or water or transportation) provided by a public utility the cost of utilities never decreases all the utilities were lost after the hurricane Hyper service work done by one person or group that benefits another 3n a company that performs a public service; subject to government regulation 3Syn|Hypo|Hyper public utility, public utility company, public-service corporation phone company, phone service, telco, telephone company, telephone service a public utility that provides telephone service electric company, light company, power company, power servicea public utility that provides electricity water company, waterworksa public utility that provides water gas company, gas servicea public utility that provides gas bus company, bus servicea public utility providing local transportation service a company or agency that performs a public service; subject to government regulation n (computer science) a program designed for general support of the processes of a computer 4a computer system provides utility programs to perform the tasks needed by most users Syn|Hypo|Hyper service program, utility program device driver, driver (computer science) a program that determines how a computer will communicate with a peripheral device diagnostic programa program that recognizes and explains faults in the equipment or mistakes in a computer program input programa utility program that organizes the input to a computer output programa utility program that organizes the output of a computer sort program, sorting programa utility program that sorts data items trace programa utility program that exhibits the sequence and results of executing the instructions in another program snapshot programa trace program that produces output for selected conditions computer program, computer programme, program, programme (computer science) a sequence of instructions that a computer can interpret and execute adj capable of substituting in any of several positions on a team a utility infielder Syn substitute secondary being of second rank or importance or value; not direct or immediate |
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