utilize : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: utilize	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for utilize
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
utilize v put into service; make work or employ for a particular purpose or for its inherent or natural purpose; "use your head!"; "we only use Spanish at home"; "I can't use this tool"; "Apply a magnetic field here"; "This thinking was applied to many projects"; "How do you utilize this tool?"; "I apply this rule to get good results"; "use the plastic bags to store the food"; "He doesn't know how to use a computer" Synonym(s): use, utilize, utilise, apply, employ convert (from an investment trust to a unit trust)
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Utilize \U"tilize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Utilized}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Utilizing}.] [Cf. F. utiliser.] To make useful; to turn to profitable account or use; to make use of; as, to utilize* the whole power of a machine; to utilize one's opportunities. In former ages, the mile-long corridors, with their numerous alcoves, might have been utilized as . . . dungeons. --Hawthorne.