Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter U

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Useful (a.) Full of use, advantage, or profit; producing, or having power to produce, good; serviceable for any end or object; helpful toward advancing any purpose; beneficial; profitable; advantageous; as, vessels and instruments useful in a family; books useful for improvement; useful knowledge; useful arts.

Useful (a.) (A2) 有用的，有效的；有助益的 Effective; helping you to do or achieve something.

// A good knife is probably one of the most useful things you can have in a kitchen.

Do the exercises serve any useful purpose?

Usefully (adv.) 有用地；有效地 In a useful manner.

Usefully (adv.) In a useful manner; "extra money could be usefully spent on this project" [ant: uselessly].

Usefulness (n.) The quality or state of being useful; utility; serviceableness; advantage. -- Addison.

Syn: Utility; value; profit. See Utility.

Usefulness (n.) The quality of being of practical use [syn: utility, usefulness] [ant: inutility, unusefulness, uselessness].

Useless (a.) Having, or being of, no use; unserviceable; producing no good end; answering no valuable purpose; not advancing the end proposed; unprofitable; ineffectual; as, a useless garment; useless pity.

Not to sit idle with so great a gift Useless, and thence ridiculous. -- Milton.

Syn: Fruitless; ineffectual.

Usage: Useless, Fruitless, Ineffectual. We speak of an attempt, effort, etc., as being useless when there are in it inherent difficulties which forbid the hope of success, as fruitless when it fails, not from any such difficulties, but from some unexpected hindrance arising to frustrate it; as, the design was rendered fruitless by the death of its projector. Ineffectual nearly resembles fruitless, but implies a failure of a less hopeless character; as, after several ineffectual efforts, I at last succeeded.

Useless are all words Till you have writ "performance" with your swords.

The other is for waiving. -- Beau. & Fl.

Waiving all searches into antiquity, in relation to this controversy, as being either needless or fruitless. -- Waterland.

Even our blessed Savior's preaching, who spake as never man spake, was ineffectual to many. -- Bp. Stillingfleet. -- Use"less*ly, adv. -- Use"less*ness, n.

Useless (a.) Having no beneficial use or incapable of functioning usefully; "a kitchen full of useless gadgets"; "she is useless in an emergency" [ant: useful, utile].

User (n.) One who uses. -- Shak.

User (n.) (Law) Enjoyment of property; use. -- Mozley & W.

User (n.) A person who makes use of a thing; someone who uses or employs something.

User (n.) A person who uses something or someone selfishly or unethically [syn: exploiter, user].

User (n.) A person who takes drugs [syn: drug user, substance abuser, user].

User (n.) Someone doing ?real work? with the computer, using it as a means rather than an end. Someone who pays to use a computer. See real user.

User (n.) A programmer who will believe anything you tell him. One who asks silly questions. [GLS observes: This is slightly unfair. It is true that users ask questions (of necessity). Sometimes they are thoughtful or deep. Very often they are annoying or downright stupid, apparently because the user failed to think for two seconds or look in the documentation before bothering the maintainer.] See luser.

User (n.) Someone who uses a program from the outside, however skillfully, without getting into the internals of the program. One who reports bugs instead of just going ahead and fixing them.

The general theory behind this term is that there are two classes of people who work with a program: there are implementors (hackers) and lusers. The users are looked down on by hackers to some extent because they don't understand the full ramifications of the system in all its glory. (The few users who do are known as real winners.) The term is a relative one: a skilled hacker may be a user with respect to some program he himself does not hack. A LISP hacker might be one who maintains LISP or one who uses LISP (but with the skill of a hacker). A LISP user is one who uses LISP, whether skillfully or not. Thus there is some overlap between the two terms; the subtle distinctions must be resolved by context.

User, () Someone doing "real work" with the computer, using it as a means rather than an end. Someone who pays to use a computer. A programmer who will believe anything you tell him. One who asks silly questions without thinking for two seconds or looking in the documentation. Someone who uses a program, however skillfully, without getting into the internals of the program. One who reports bugs instead of just fixing them. See also luser, real user.

Users are looked down on by hackers to some extent because they don't understand the full ramifications of the system in all its glory. The term is relative: a skilled hacker may be a user with respect to some program he himself does not hack.

A LISP hacker might be one who maintains LISP or one who uses LISP (but with the skill of a hacker). A LISP user is one who uses LISP, whether skillfully or not. Thus there is some overlap between the two terms; the subtle distinctions must be resolved by context.

User, () Any person, organisation, process, device, program, protocol, or system which uses a service provided by others.

The term "{client" (as in "{client-server}" systems) is rather more specific, usually implying two processes communicating via some protocol. [{Jargon File] (1996-04-28)

Usher (n.) An officer or servant who has the care of the door of a court, hall, chamber, or the like; hence, an officer whose business it is to introduce strangers, or to walk before a person of rank. Also, one who escorts persons to seats in a church, theater, etc. "The ushers and the squires." -- Chaucer.

These are the ushers of Marcius. -- Shak.

Note: There are various officers of this kind attached to the royal household in England, including the gentleman usher of the black rod, who attends in the House of Peers during the sessions of Parliament, and twelve or more gentlemen ushers. See Black rod.

Usher (n.) An under teacher, or assistant master, in a school.

Ushered (imp. & p. p.) of Usher.

Ushering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Usher.

Usher (v. t.) To introduce or escort, as an usher, forerunner, or harbinger; to forerun; -- sometimes followed by in or forth; as, to usher in a stranger; to usher forth the guests; to usher a visitor into the room.

The stars that usher evening rose. -- Milton.

The Examiner was ushered into the world by a letter, setting forth the great genius of the author. -- Addison.

Usher (n.) Irish prelate who deduced from the Bible that Creation occurred in the year 4004 BC (1581-1656) [syn: Ussher, James Ussher, Usher, James Usher].

Usher (n.) An official stationed at the entrance of a courtroom or legislative chamber [syn: usher, doorkeeper].

Usher (n.) Someone employed to conduct others [syn: usher, guide].

Usher (v.) Take (someone) to their seats, as in theaters or auditoriums; "The usher showed us to our seats" [syn: usher, show].

USHER. () This word is said to be derived from a huissier, and is the name of an inferior officer in some English courts of law Archb. Pr. 25.

Usherance (n.) The act of ushering, or the state of being ushered in. [Obs.] -- Shaftesbury.

Usherdom (n.) The office or position of an usher; ushership; also, ushers, collectively. [R.]

Usherless (a.) Destitute of an usher. -- Marston.

Ushership (n.) The office of an usher; usherdom.

Usitative (a.) Denoting usual or customary action. "The usitative aorist." -- Alford.

Usnea (n.) A genus of lichens, most of the species of which have long, gray, pendulous, and finely branched fronds. Usnea barbata is the common bearded lichen which grows on branches of trees in northern forests.

Usnea (n.) Widely distributed lichens usually having a greyish or yellow pendulous freely branched thallus [syn: Usnea, genus Usnea].

Usnic (a.) (Chem.) Pertaining to, or designating, a complex acid obtained, as a yellow crystalline substance, from certain genera of lichens ({Usnea, Parmelia, etc.).

Usquebaugh (a.) A compound distilled spirit made in Ireland and Scotland; whisky.

The Scottish returns being vested in grouse, white hares, pickled salmon, and usquebaugh. -- Sir W. Scott.

Usquebaugh (a.) A liquor compounded of brandy, or other strong spirit, raisins, cinnamon and other spices. -- Brande & C.

Usself (n. pl.) Ourselves. [Obs.] -- Wyclif. Piers Plowman. Chaucer.

Ustion (n.) The act of burning, or the state of being burned. [R.] -- Johnson.

Ustorious (a.) Having the quality of burning. [R.] -- I. Watts.

Ustulate (a.) Blackened as if burned.

Ustulation (n.) The act of burning or searing. [R.] -- Sir W. Petty.

Ustulation (n.) (Old Chem.) The operation of expelling one substance from another by heat, as sulphur or arsenic from ores, in a muffle.

Ustulation (n.) (Pharm.) The roasting or drying of moist substances so as prepare them for pulverizing.

Ustulation (n.) (Pharm.) The burning of wine.

Ustulation (n.) Lascivious passion; concupiscence. [Obs.]

It is not certain that they took the better part when they chose ustulation before marriage, expressly against the apostle. -- Jer. Taylor.

Usual (n.) Such as is in common use; such as occurs in ordinary practice, or in the ordinary course of events; customary; ordinary; habitual; common.

Consultation with oracles was a thing very usual and frequent in their times. -- Hooker.

We can make friends of these usual enemies. -- Baxter. -- U"su*al*ly, adv. -- U"su*al*ness, n.

Usual (a.) Occurring or encountered or experienced or observed frequently or in accordance with regular practice or procedure; "grew the usual vegetables"; "the usual summer heat"; "came at the usual time"; "the child's usual bedtime" [ant: unusual].

Usual (a.) Commonly encountered; "a common (or familiar) complaint"; "the usual greeting" [syn: common, usual].

Usucaption (n.) (Roman Law) The acquisition of the title or right to property by the uninterrupted possession of it for a certain term prescribed by law; -- the same as prescription in common law.

Usucaption, (Civil law.) The manner of acquiring property in things by the lapse of time required by law.

Usucaption, () It differs from prescription, which has the same sense, and means, in addition, the manner of acquiring and losing, by the effect of time regulated by law, all sorts of rights and actions. Merl. Repert. mot Prescription, tom. xii. page 671; Ayl. Pand. 320; Wood's Inst. Civ. Law, 165; Lecons Elem. du Dr. Rom. Sec. 437; 1 Browne's Civ. Law, 264, n.; vattel, ii. 2, c. 2, Sec. 140.

Usufruct (n.) (Law) The right of using and enjoying the profits of an estate or other thing belonging to another, without impairing the substance. -- Burrill.

Usufruct (n.) A legal right to use and derive profit from property belonging to someone else provided that the property itself is not injured in any way.

Usufruct, (Civil law.) The right of enjoying a thing, the property of which is vested in another, and to draw from the same all the profit, utility and advantage which it may produce, provided it be without altering the substance of the thing.

Usufruct, () The obligation of not altering the substance of the thing, however, takes place only in the case of a complete usufruct.

Usufruct, () Usufructs are of two kinds; perfect and imperfect. Perfect usufruct, which is of things which the usufructuary can enjoy without altering their substance, though their substance may be diminished or deteriorated naturally by time or by the use to which they are applied; as a house, a piece of land, animals, furniture and other movable effects. Imperfect or quasi usufruct, which is of things which would be useless to the usufructuary if be did not consume and expend them, or change the substance of them, as money, grain, liquors. Civ. Code of Louis. art. 525, et seq.; 1 Browne's Civ. Law, 184; Poth. Tr. du Douaire, n. 194; Ayl. Pand. 319; Poth. Pand. tom. 6, p. 91; Lecons El. du Dr. Civ. Rom. 414 Inst. lib. 2, t. 4; Dig. lib. 7, t. 1, 1. 1 Code, lib. 3, t. 33; 1 Bouv. Inst. Theolo. pg. 1, c. 1, art. 2, p. 76.

Usufruct (n.) (Law) The right of using and enjoying the profits of an estate or other thing belonging to another, without impairing the substance. -- Burrill.

Usufruct (n.) A legal right to use and derive profit from property belonging to someone else provided that the property itself is not injured in any way.

Usufruct, () The obligation of not altering the substance of the thing, however, takes place only in the case of a complete usufruct.

Usufruct (n.) The right to use or enjoy something.

Usufruct (n.) The right to the use and enjoyment of another's property and its profits <a usufruct in the crops of the estate>; especially in the civil law of Louisiana : a personal servitude of limited duration that confers the right of use and full enjoyment of another's property and its fruits.

Usufructuary (n.) A person who has the use of property and reaps the profits of it. -- Wharton.

Usufructuary (a.) (Law) Of or pertaining to a usufruct; having the nature of a usufruct.

The ordinary graces bequeathed by Christ to his church, as the usufructuary property of all its members. -- Coleridge.

Usurarious

Usufructuary (a.) Of or relating to the nature of a usufruct.

Usufructuary (n.) Someone who holds property by usufruct.

Usufructuary, () civil law. One who has the right and enjoyment of an usufruct.

Usufructuary, () Domat, with his usual clearness, points out the duties of the usufructuary, which are, 1. To make an inventory of the things subject to the usufruct, in the presence of those having an interest in them. 2. To give security for their restitution; when the usufruct shall be at an end. 3. To take good care of the things subject to the usufruct. 4. To pay all taxes, and claims which arise while the thing is in his possession, as a ground-rent. 5. To keep the thing in repair at his own expense. Lois Civ. liv. 1, t. 11, s. 4. See Estate for life.

Usurarious (a.) Alt. of Usurary

Usurary (a.) Usurious. [Obs.] "Usurarious contracts." -- Jer. Taylor. Bp. Hall.

Usured (imp. & p. p.) of Usure.

Usuring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Usure.

Usure (v. i.) To practice usury; to charge unlawful interest. [Obs.] "The usuringb senate." -- Shak.

I usured not ne to me usured any man. -- Wyclif (Jer. xv. 10).

Usure (n.) Usury. [Obs.] -- Wyclif.

Foul usure and lucre of villainy. -- Chaucer.

Usurer (n.) One who lends money and takes interest for it; a money lender. [Obs.]

If thou lend money to any of my people that is poor by thee, thou shalt not be to him as a usurer, neither shalt thou lay upon him usury. -- Ex. xxii. 25.

Usurer (n.) One who lends money at a rate of interest beyond that established by law; one who exacts an exorbitant rate of interest for the use of money.

He was wont to call me usurer. -- Shak.

Usurer (n.) Someone who lends money at excessive rates of interest [syn: usurer, loan shark, moneylender, shylock]

Usurious (a.) Practicing usury; taking illegal or exorbitant interest for the use of money; as, a usurious person.

Usurious (a.) Partaking of usury; containing or involving usury; as, a usurious contract. -- U*su"ri*ous*ly, adv. -- U*su"ri*ous*ness, n.

Usurious (a.) Greatly exceeding bounds of reason or moderation; "exorbitant rent"; "extortionate prices"; "spends an outrageous amount on entertainment"; "usurious interest rate"; "unconscionable spending" [syn: exorbitant, extortionate, outrageous, steep, unconscionable, usurious].

Usurped (imp. & p. p.) of Usurp.

Usurping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Usurp.

Usurp (v. t.) To seize, and hold in possession, by force, or without right; as, to usurp a throne; to usurp the prerogatives of the crown; to usurp power; to usurp the right of a patron is to oust or dispossess him.

Alack, thou dost usurp authority. -- Shak.

Another revolution, to get rid of this illegitimate and usurped government, would of course be perfectly justifiable. -- Burke.

Note: Usurp is applied to seizure and use of office, functions, powers, rights, etc.; it is not applied to common dispossession of private property.

Syn: To arrogate; assume; appropriate.

Usurp (v. i.) To commit forcible seizure of place, power, functions, or the like, without right; to commit unjust encroachments; to be, or act as, a usurper.

The parish churches on which the Presbyterians and fanatics had usurped. -- Evelyn.

And now the Spirits of the Mind Are busy with poor Peter Bell; Upon the rights of visual sense Usurping, with a prevalence More terrible than magic spell. -- Wordsworth.

Usurp (v.) Seize and take control without authority and possibly with force; take as one's right or possession; "He assumed to himself the right to fill all positions in the town"; "he usurped my rights"; "She seized control of the throne after her husband died" [syn: assume, usurp, seize, take over, arrogate].

Usurp (v.) Take the place of; "gloom had usurped mirth at the party after the news of the terrorist act broke."

Usurpant (a.) Usurping; encroaching. [Obs.] -- Gauden.

Usurpation (n.) The act of usurping, or of seizing and enjoying; an authorized, arbitrary assumption and exercise of power, especially an infringing on the rights of others; specifically, the illegal seizure of sovereign power; -- commonly used with of, also used with on or upon; as, the usurpation of a throne; the usurpation of the supreme power.

He contrived their destruction, with the usurpation of the regal dignity upon him. -- Sir T. More.

A law [of a State] which is a usurpation upon the general government. -- O. Ellsworth.

Manifest usurpation on the rights of other States. -- D. Webster.

Note: Usurpation, in a peculiar sense, formerly denoted the absolute ouster and dispossession of the patron of a church, by a stranger presenting a clerk to a vacant benefice, who us thereupon admitted and instituted.

Usurpation (n.) Use; usage; custom. [Obs.] -- Bp. Pearson.

Usurpation (n.) Entry to another's property without right or permission [syn: trespass, encroachment, violation, intrusion, usurpation].

Usurpation (n.) Wrongfully seizing and holding (an office or powers) by force (especially the seizure of a throne or supreme authority); "a succession of generals who ruled by usurpation."

Usurpation, () torts. The unlawful assumption of the use of property which belongs to another; an interruption or the disturbing a man in his right and possession. Toml. Law Dict. h.t.

Usurpation, () According to Lord Coke, there are two kinds of usurpation. 1. When a stranger, without right, presents to a church, and his clerk is admitted; and, 2. When a subject uses a franchise of the king without lawful authority. Co. Litt. 277 b.

Usurpation, () government. The tyrannical assumption of the government by force contrary to and in violation of the constitution of the country.

Usurpatory (a.) Marked by usurpation; usurping. [R.]

Usurpature (n.) Usurpation. [R.] "Beneath man's usurpature." -- R. Browning.

Usurper (n.) One who usurps; especially, one who seizes illegally on sovereign power; as, the usurper of a throne, of power, or of the rights of a patron.

A crown will not want pretenders to claim it, not usurpers, if their power serves them, to possess it. -- South.

Usurper (n.) One who wrongfully or illegally seizes and holds the place of another [syn: usurper, supplanter].

Usurper, () government. One who assumes the right of government by force, contrary to and in violation of the constitution of the country. Toull. Dr. Civ. n. 32. Vide Tyranny,

Usurpingly (adv.) In a usurping manner.

Usury (n.) 高利貸；高利；【喻】利益 A premium or increase paid, or stipulated to be paid, for a loan, as of money; interest. [Obs. or Archaic]

Thou shalt not lend upon usury to thy brother; usury of money, usury of victuals, usury of anything that is lent upon usury. -- Deut. xxiii. 19.

Thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the exchanges, and then at my coming I should have received mine own with usury. -- Matt. xxv. 27.

What he borrows from the ancients, he repays with usury of ??is own. -- Dryden.

Usury (n.) The practice of taking interest. [Obs.]

Usury . . . bringeth the treasure of a realm or state into a few ??nds. -- Bacon.

Usury (n.) (Law) Interest in excess of a legal rate charged to a borrower for the use of money.

Note: The practice of requiring in repayment of money lent anything more than the amount lent, was formerly thought to be a great moral wrong, and the greater, the more was taken. Now it is not deemed more wrong to take pay for the use of money than for the use of a house, or a horse, or any other property. But the lingering influence of the former opinion, together with the fact that the nature of money makes it easier for the lender to oppress the borrower, has caused nearly all Christian nations to fix by law the rate of compensation for the use of money. Of late years, however, the opinion that money should be borrowed and repaid, or bought and sold, upon whatever terms the parties should agree to, like any other property, has gained ground everywhere. -- Am. Cyc.

Usury (n.) An exorbitant or unlawful rate of interest [syn: usury, vigorish].

Usury (n.) The act of lending money at an exorbitant rate of interest.

Usury, () The sum paid for the use of money, hence interest; not, as in the modern sense, exorbitant interest. The Jews were forbidden to exact usury (Lev. 25:36, 37), only, however, in their dealings with each other (Deut. 23:19, 20). The violation of this law was viewed as a great crime (Ps. 15:5; Prov. 28:8; Jer. 15:10). After the Return, and later, this law was much neglected (Neh. 5:7, 10).

Usury, () contracts. The illegal profit which is required and received by the lender of a sum of money from the borrower for its use. In a more extended and improper sense, it is the receipt of any profit whatever for the use of money: it is only in the first of these senses that usury will be here considered.

Usury, () To constitute a usurious contract the following are the requisites: 1. A loan express or implied. 2. An agreement that the money lent shall be returned at all events. 3. Not only that the money lent shall be returned, but that for such loan a greater interest than that fixed by law shall be paid.

Usury, () There must be a loan in contemplation of the parties; 7 Pet. S. C. Rep. 109, 1 Clarke R. 252; and if there be a loan, however disguised, the contract will be usurious, if it be so in other respects. Where a loan was made of depreciated bank notes to be repaid in sound funds, to enable the borrower to pay a debt he owed dollar for dollar, it was considered as not being usurious. 1 Meigs, R. 585. The bona fide sale of a note, bond or other security at a greater discount than would amount to legal interest, is not per se, a loan, although the note may be endorsed by the seller, and he remains responsible. 9 Pet. S. C. Rep. 103; 1 Clarke, R. 30. But, if a note, bond; or other security be made with a view to evade the laws of usury, and afterwards sold for a less amount than the interest, the transaction will be considered a loan; 2 Johns. Cas. 60; 3 Johns. Cas. 66; 15 Johns. R. 44 2 Dall. 92; 12 Serg. & Rawle, 46 and a sale of a man's own note, endorsed by himself, will, be considered a loan. lt is a general rule that a contract, which, in its inception, is unaffected by usury, can never be invalidated by any subsequent usurious transaction. 7 Pet. S. C. Rep. 109. On the contrary, when the contract was originally usurious, and there is a substitution by a new contract, the latter will generally be considered usurious. 15 Mass. R. 96.

Usury, () There must be a contract for the return of the money at all events; for if the return of the principal with interest, or of the principal only, depend upon a contingency, there can be no usury; but if the contingency extend only to interest, and the principal be beyond the reach of hazard, the lender will be guilty of usury, if he received interest beyond the amount allowed by law. As the principal is put to hazard in insurances, annuities and bottomry, the parties may charge and receive greater interest than is allowed by law in common cases, and the transaction will not be usurious.

Usury, () To constitute usury the borrower must not only be obliged to return the principal at all events, but more than lawful interest: this part of the agreement must be made with full consent and knowledge of the contracting parties. 3 Bos. & Pull, 154. When the contract is made in a foreign country the rate of interest allowed by the laws of that country may be charged, and it will not be usurious, although greater than the amount fixed by law in this. Story, Confl. of Laws, Sec. 292. Vide, generally, Com. Dig. h.t.; Bac. Ab. h.t.; 8 Com. Dig. h.t.; Lilly's Reg. h.t.; Dane's Ab. h.t.; Petersdorff's Ab. h.t.; Vin. Ab. h.t.; 2 Bl. Com. 454; Comyn on Usury, passim; 1 Pt. S. C Rep. Index, h.t.; 1 Supp. to Yes. jr. 307, 337; Yelv. 47; 1 Ves. jr. 527; 1 Saund 295, note 1; Poth. h.t.; and the article Anatocism; Interest.

Ut (n.) (Min.) The first note in Guido's musical scale, now usually superseded by do. See Solmization.

UT (n.) The local time at the 0 meridian passing through Greenwich, England; it is the same everywhere [syn: Greenwich Mean Time, Greenwich Time, GMT, universal time, UT, UT1]

UT (n.) A state in the western United States; settled in 1847 by Mormons led by Brigham Young [syn: Utah, Beehive State, Mormon State, UT]

UT (n.) The syllable naming the first (tonic) note of any major scale in solmization [syn: do, doh, ut].

UT, () Universal Time [+0000] (TZ, GMT)

UT, () Upper Tester

Utas (n.) (O. Eng. Law) The eighth day after any term or feast; the octave; as, the utas of St. Michael. -- Cowell.

The marriage was celebrated and Canterbury, and in the utas of St. Hilary next ensuing she was crowned. -- Holinshed.

Utas (n.) Hence, festivity; merriment. [Obs.] -- Shak.

Utensil (n.) 器皿，用具 [C] That which is used; an instrument; an implement; especially, an instrument or vessel used in a kitchen, or in domestic and farming business.

Wagons fraught with utensils of war. -- Milton.

Utensil (n.) An implement for practical use (especially in a household).

Utensil (n.) [ C ] （尤指廚房或家用的）器具，用具 A tool with a particular use, especially in a kitchen or house.

// In the drawer was a selection of kitchen utensils - spoons, spatulas, knives, and whisks.

Uterine (a.) 【解】子宮的；同母異父的 Of or instrument to the uterus, or womb.

Uterine (a.) Born of the same mother, but by a different father.

Walter Pope, uterine brother to Dr. Joh. Wilki??. -- Wood.

Uterine (a.) Of or involving the uterus; "uterine cancer."

Uterogestation (n.) 子宫妊娠 Gestation in the womb from conception to birth; pregnancy. -- Pritchard.

Uterovaginal (a.) 子宮陰道的 Pertaining to both the uterus and the vagina.

Uterus (n.) (Anat.) 【解】子宮 The organ of a female mammal in which the young are developed previous to birth; the womb.

Note: The uterus is simply an enlargement of the oviduct, and in the lower mammals there is one on each side, but in the higher forms the two become more or less completely united into one. In many male mammals there is a small vesicle, opening into the urinogenital canal, which corresponds to the uterus of the female and is called the male uterus, or [NL.] uterus masculinus.

Uterus (n.) (Zool.) A receptacle, or pouch, connected with the oviducts of many invertebrates in which the eggs are retained until they hatch or until the embryos develop more or less. See Illust. of Hermaphrodite in Append.

Uterus (n.) A hollow muscular organ in the pelvic cavity of females; contains the developing fetus [syn: uterus, womb].

Utes (n. pl.) sing. Ute. (Ethnol.) An extensive tribe of North American Indians of the Shoshone stock, inhabiting Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, Arizona, and adjacent regions. They are subdivided into several subordinate tribes, some of which are among the most degraded of North American Indians.

Utia (n.) [NL.] (Zool.) Any species of large West Indian rodents of the genus Capromys, or Utia. In general appearance and habits they resemble rats, but they are as large as rabbits.

Utica (a.) (Geol.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, a subdivision of the Trenton Period of the Lower Silurian, characterized in the State of New York by beds of shale.

Utica (n.) A city in central New York.

Utica (n.) An ancient city on the north coast of Africa (northwest of Carthage); destroyed by Arabs around 700 AD.

Utica, MO -- U.S. village in Missouri

Population (2000): 274

Housing Units (2000): 120

Land area (2000): 0.881906 sq. miles (2.284126 sq. km)

Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)

Total area (2000): 0.881906 sq. miles (2.284126 sq. km)

FIPS code: 75364

Located within: Missouri (MO), FIPS 29

Location: 39.743366 N, 93.627440 W

ZIP Codes (1990): 64686

Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.

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Utica, NE -- U.S. village in Nebraska

Population (2000): 844

Housing Units (2000): 350

Land area (2000): 0.436792 sq. miles (1.131287 sq. km)

Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)

Total area (2000): 0.436792 sq. miles (1.131287 sq. km)

FIPS code: 49915

Located within: Nebraska (NE), FIPS 31

Location: 40.894938 N, 97.345366 W

ZIP Codes (1990): 68456

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Headwords:

Utica, NE

Utica

Utica, NY -- U.S. city in New York

Population (2000): 60651

Housing Units (2000): 29186

Land area (2000): 16.348113 sq. miles (42.341417 sq. km)

Water area (2000): 0.261117 sq. miles (0.676290 sq. km)

Total area (2000): 16.609230 sq. miles (43.017707 sq. km)

FIPS code: 76540

Located within: New York (NY), FIPS 36

Location: 43.096569 N, 75.231887 W

ZIP Codes (1990): 13501 13502

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Headwords:

Utica, NY

Utica

Utica, OH -- U.S. village in Ohio

Population (2000): 2130

Housing Units (2000): 888

Land area (2000): 1.697376 sq. miles (4.396183 sq. km)

Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)

Total area (2000): 1.697376 sq. miles (4.396183 sq. km)

FIPS code: 79114

Located within: Ohio (OH), FIPS 39

Location: 40.237493 N, 82.446797 W

ZIP Codes (1990): 43080

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Headwords:

Utica, OH

Utica

Utica, IN -- U.S. town in Indiana

Population (2000): 591

Housing Units (2000): 279
Land area (2000): 0.434011 sq. miles (1.124083 sq. km)

Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)

Total area (2000): 0.434011 sq. miles (1.124083 sq. km)

FIPS code: 78110

Located within: Indiana (IN), FIPS 18

Location: 38.334556 N, 85.654961 W

ZIP Codes (1990):

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Headwords:

Utica, IN

Utica

Utica, PA -- U.S. borough in Pennsylvania

Population (2000): 211

Housing Units (2000): 122

Land area (2000): 1.342124 sq. miles (3.476085 sq. km)

Water area (2000): 0.042339 sq. miles (0.109657 sq. km)

Total area (2000): 1.384463 sq. miles (3.585742 sq. km)

FIPS code: 79472

Located within: Pennsylvania (PA), FIPS 42

Location: 41.436319 N, 79.956341 W

ZIP Codes (1990): 16362

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Headwords:

Utica, PA

Utica

Utica, KS -- U.S. city in Kansas

Population (2000): 223

Housing Units (2000): 104

Land area (2000): 0.239174 sq. miles (0.619458 sq. km)

Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)

Total area (2000): 0.239174 sq. miles (0.619458 sq. km)

FIPS code: 72650

Located within: Kansas (KS), FIPS 20

Location: 38.642899 N, 100.169024 W

ZIP Codes (1990): 67584

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Headwords:

Utica, KS

Utica

Utica, SC -- U.S. Census Designated Place in South Carolina

Population (2000): 1322

Housing Units (2000): 684

Land area (2000): 1.350033 sq. miles (3.496570 sq. km)

Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)

Total area (2000): 1.350033 sq. miles (3.496570 sq. km)

FIPS code: 73330

Located within: South Carolina (SC), FIPS 45

Location: 34.678160 N, 82.928599 W

ZIP Codes (1990):

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Headwords:

Utica, SC

Utica

Utica, SD -- U.S. town in South Dakota

Population (2000): 86

Housing Units (2000): 43

Land area (2000): 0.264464 sq. miles (0.684959 sq. km)

Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)

Total area (2000): 0.264464 sq. miles (0.684959 sq. km)

FIPS code: 65780

Located within: South Dakota (SD), FIPS 46

Location: 42.980242 N, 97.498020 W

ZIP Codes (1990): 57067

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Headwords:

Utica, SD

Utica

Utica, MI -- U.S. city in Michigan

Population (2000): 4577

Housing Units (2000): 2005

Land area (2000): 1.775268 sq. miles (4.597923 sq. km)

Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)

Total area (2000): 1.775268 sq. miles (4.597923 sq. km)

FIPS code: 81540

Located within: Michigan (MI), FIPS 26

Location: 42.628283 N, 83.025751 W

ZIP Codes (1990):

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Headwords:

Utica, MI

Utica

Utica, MN -- U.S. city in Minnesota

Population (2000): 230

Housing Units (2000): 85

Land area (2000): 0.919704 sq. miles (2.382023 sq. km)

Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)

Total area (2000): 0.919704 sq. miles (2.382023 sq. km)

FIPS code: 66424

Located within: Minnesota (MN), FIPS 27

Location: 43.976159 N, 91.956161 W

ZIP Codes (1990): 55979

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Headwords:

Utica, MN

Utica

Utica, MS -- U.S. town in Mississippi

Population (2000): 966

Housing Units (2000): 397

Land area (2000): 2.991120 sq. miles (7.746966 sq. km)

Water area (2000): 0.011988 sq. miles (0.031048 sq. km)

Total area (2000): 3.003108 sq. miles (7.778014 sq. km)

FIPS code: 75760

Located within: Mississippi (MS), FIPS 28

Location: 32.103426 N, 90.622214 W

ZIP Codes (1990): 39175

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Headwords:

Utica, MS

Utica

Utile (v. t.) Profitable; useful. [Obs.]

Utile (a.) Being of use or service; "the girl felt motherly and useful"; "a useful job"; "a useful member of society" [syn: useful, utile] [ant: useless].

Utilitarian (a.) Of or pertaining to utility; consisting in utility; ?iming at utility as distinguished from beauty, ornament, etc.; sometimes, reproachfully, evincing, or characterized by, a regard for utility of a lower kind, or marked by a sordid spirit; as, utilitarian narrowness; a utilitarian indifference to art.

Utilitarian (a.) Of or pertaining to utilitarianism; supporting utilitarianism; as, the utilitarian view of morality; the Utilitarian Society. -- J. S. Mill.

Utilitarian (n.) One who holds the doctrine of utilitarianism.

The utilitarians are for merging all the particular virtues into one, and would substitute in their place the greatest usefulness, as the alone principle to which every question respecting the morality of actions should be referred. -- Chalmers.

But what is a utilitarian? Simply one who prefers the useful to the useless; and who does not? -- Sir W. Hamilton.

Utilitarian (a.) Having a useful function; "utilitarian steel tables" [syn: utilitarian, useful].

Utilitarian (a.) Having utility often to the exclusion of values; "plain utilitarian kitchenware."

Utilitarian (n.) Someone who believes that the value of a thing depends on its utility.

Utilitarianism (n.) The doctrine that the greatest happiness of the greatest number should be the end and aim of all social and political institutions. -- Bentham.

Utilitarianism (n.) The doctrine that virtue is founded in utility, or that virtue is defined and enforced by its tendency to promote the highest happiness of the universe. -- J. S. Mill.

Utilitarianism (n.) The doctrine that utility is the sole standard of morality, so that the rectitude of an action is determined by its usefulness.

Utilitarianism (n.) Doctrine that the useful is the good; especially as elaborated by Jeremy Bentham and James Mill; the aim was said to be the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Utility (n.) 效用，實用，功利 [U]；有用之物 [C] [P1]；公用事業；公用事業公司；公用事業公司股票 [C] [P1] The quality or state of being useful; usefulness; production of good; profitableness to some valuable end; as, the utility of manure upon land; the utility of the sciences; the utility of medicines.

The utility of the enterprises was, however, so great and obvious that all opposition proved useless. -- Macaulay.

Utility (n.) (Polit. Econ.) Adaptation to satisfy the desires or wants; intrinsic value. See Note under Value, 2.

Value in use is utility, and nothing else, and in political economy should be called by that name and no other. -- F. A. Walker.

Utility (n.) Happiness; the greatest good, or happiness, of the greatest number, -- the foundation of utilitarianism. -- J. S. Mill.

Syn: Usefulness; advantageous; benefit; profit; avail; service.

Usage: Utility, Usefulness. Usefulness has an Anglo-Saxon prefix, utility is Latin; and hence the former is used chiefly of things in the concrete, while the latter is employed more in a general and abstract sense. Thus, we speak of the utility of an invention, and the usefulness of the thing invented; of the utility of an institution, and the usefulness of an individual. So beauty and utility (not usefulness) are brought into comparison. Still, the words are often used interchangeably.

Utility (a.) 有多種用途的；通用的；實用的，經濟實惠的；為經濟利益而飼養的；公用事業的 Used of beef; usable but inferior [syn: utility(a), utility-grade].

Utility (a.) Capable of substituting in any of several positions on a team; "a utility infielder" [syn: utility(a), substitute(a)].

Utility (n.) A company that performs a public service; subject to government regulation [syn: utility, public utility, public utility company, public-service corporation].

Utility (n.) The quality of being of practical use [syn: utility, usefulness] [ant: inutility, unusefulness, uselessness].

Utility (n.) 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."

Utility (n.) (Economics) A measure that is to be maximized in any situation involving choice.

Utility (n.) (Computer science) A program designed for general support of the processes of a computer; "a computer system provides utility programs to perform the tasks needed by most users" [syn: utility program, utility, service program].

Utility (n.) 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."

Utility software

Utility

Utility program

(Or utility program, tool) Any software that performs some specific task that is secondary to the main purpose of using the computer (the latter would be called application programs) but is not essential to the operation of the computer ({system software).

Many utilities could be considered as part of the system software, which can in turn be considered part of the operating system.

The following are some broad categories of utility software, specific types and examples.

* Disks
disk formatter: FDISK, format

defragmenter

disk checker: fsck

disk cleaner

system profiler

backup

file system compression

* Files and directories

list directory: ls, dir

copy, move, remove: cp, mv, rm, xcopy

archive: tar

compression: zip

format conversion: atob

comparison: diff

sort: sort

* Security

authentication: login

antivirus software: avast, Norton Antivirus

firewall: Zone Alarm, Windows firewall

encryption: gpg)

* Editors for general-purpose formats (as opposed to specific

formats like a word processing document)

text editor: Emacs

binary editor, hex editor

* Communications

mail transfer agent: sendmail

e-mail notification: biff

file transfer: ftp, rcp, Firefox

file synchronisation: unison, briefcase

chat: Gaim, cu

directory services: bind, nslookup, whois

network diagnosis: ping, traceroute

remote access: rlogin, ssh

* Software development

compiler: gcc

build: make, ant

codewalker

preprocessor: cpp

debugger: adb, gdb

installation: apt-get, msiexec, patch

compiler compiler: yacc

* Hardware

device configuration: PCU, devman, stty

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Utilizable (a.) 可利用的 Capable of being utilized; as, the utilizable products of the gas works.

Utilizable (a.) Capable of being put to a profitable or practical use.

Utilization (n.) 利用；使用 [U] The act of utilizing, or the state of being utilized.

Utilization (n.) The act of using; "he warned against the use of narcotic drugs"; "skilled in the utilization of computers" [syn: use, usage, utilization, utilisation, employment, exercise].

Utilization (n.) The state of having been made use of; "the rate of utilization."

Utilized (imp. & p. p.) of Utilize.

Utilizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Utilize.

Utilize (v. t.) 【書】利用 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.

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" [syn: use, utilize, utilise, apply, employ].

Utilize (v.) Convert (from an investment trust to a unit trust).

Uti possidetis () (Internat. Law) The basis or principle of a treaty which leaves belligerents mutually in possession of what they have acquired by their arms during the war.

Uti possidetis () (Roman Law) A species of interdict granted to one who was in possession of an immovable thing, in order that he might be declared the legal possessor. -- Burrill.

UTI POSSIDETIS. () This phrase, which means as you possess, is used in international law to signify that the parties to a treaty are to retain possession of what they have acquired by force during the war.

Compare: Utas

Utas (n.) [Written also utis.] (O. Eng. Law) The eighth day after any term or feast; the octave; as, the utas of St. Michael. -- Cowell.

The marriage was celebrated and Canterbury, and in the utas of St. Hilary next ensuing she was crowned. -- Holinshed.

Utas (n.) Hence, festivity; merriment. [Obs.] -- Shak.

Utis (n.) See Utas. [Obs.]

Utlary (n.) Outlawry. [Obs.] -- Camden.

Utmost (n.) 極限；極度；最大可能 [the S] The most that can be; the farthest limit; the greatest power, degree, or effort; as, he has done his utmost; try your utmost.

We have tried the utmost of our friends. -- Shak.

Utmost (a.) 最大的；最遠的；極度的 [Z] [B] Situated at the farthest point or extremity; farthest out; most distant; extreme; as, the utmost limits of the land; the utmost extent of human knowledge. -- Spenser.

We coasted within two leagues of Antibes, which is the utmost town in France. -- Evelyn.

Betwixt two thieves I spend my utmost breath. -- Herbert.

Utmost (a.) Being in the greatest or highest degree, quantity, number, or the like; greatest; as, the utmost assiduity; the utmost harmony; the utmost misery or happiness.

He shall answer . . . to his utmost peril. -- Shak.

Six or seven thousand is their utmost power. -- Shak.

Utmost (a.) Of the greatest possible degree or extent or intensity; "extreme cold"; "extreme caution"; "extreme pleasure"; "utmost contempt"; "to the utmost degree"; "in the uttermost distress" [syn: extreme, utmost(a), uttermost(a)].

Utmost (a.) Highest in extent or degree; "to the last measure of human endurance"; "whether they were accomplices in the last degree or a lesser one was...to be determined individually" [syn: last, utmost].

Utmost (a.) (Comparatives of `far') Most remote in space or time or order; "had traveled to the farthest frontier"; "don't go beyond the farthermost (or furthermost) tree"; "explored the furthest reaches of space"; "the utmost tip of the peninsula" [syn: farthermost, farthest, furthermost, furthest, utmost, uttermost].

Utmost (n.) The greatest possible degree; "he tried his utmost" [syn: utmost, uttermost, maximum, level best].

Utmost (a.) [ Before noun ] (Formal uttermost) (C1) 最大的；極度的 Used to emphasize how important or serious something is.

// A matter of the utmost importance.

The situation needs to be handled with the utmost care.

Utmost (n.) [ S ] (Formal uttermost) 最大量；最高程度 The greatest amount or degree possible.

// The new model of the car offers the utmost in power and performance.

Idiom: Do/ try your utmost

Do/ try your utmost (C1) 盡最大努力；竭盡全力 To do something as well as you can by making a great effort.

// She did her utmost to finish on time.

Utopia (n.) An imaginary island, represented by Sir Thomas More, in a work called Utopia, as enjoying the greatest perfection in politics, laws, and the like. See Utopia, in the Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction.

Utopia (n.) Hence, any place or state of ideal perfection.

Utopia (n.) A book written by Sir Thomas More (1516) describing the perfect society on an imaginary island.

Utopia (n.) Ideally perfect state; especially in its social and political and moral aspects [ant: dystopia].

Utopia (n.) A work of fiction describing a utopia

Utopia (n.) An imaginary place considered to be perfect or ideal [syn: Utopia, Zion, Sion].

UTOPIA, () Universal Test & Operations Physical layer Interface for ATM (PL, ATM)

Utopia, FL -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Florida

Population (2000): 714

Housing Units (2000): 279

Land area (2000): 0.306849 sq. miles (0.794734 sq. km)

Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)

Total area (2000): 0.306849 sq. miles (0.794734 sq. km)

FIPS code: 73442

Located within: Florida (FL), FIPS 12

Location: 25.988719 N, 80.203268 W

ZIP Codes (1990):

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Headwords:

Utopia, FL

Utopia

Utopia, TX -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Texas

Population (2000): 241

Housing Units (2000): 127

Land area (2000): 2.952302 sq. miles (7.646428 sq. km)

Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)

Total area (2000): 2.952302 sq. miles (7.646428 sq. km)

FIPS code: 74576

Located within: Texas (TX), FIPS 48

Location: 29.616402 N, 99.526623 W

ZIP Codes (1990): 78884

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Headwords:

Utopia, TX

Utopia

Utopian (a.) Of or pertaining to Utopia; resembling Utopia; hence, ideal; chimerical; fanciful; founded upon, or involving, imaginary perfections; as, Utopian projects; Utopian happiness.

Utopian (n.) An inhabitant of Utopia; hence, one who believes in the perfectibility of human society; a visionary; an idealist; an optimist. -- Hooker.

Utopian (a.) Of or pertaining to or resembling a utopia; "a Utopian novel" [syn: utopian, Utopian].

Utopian (a.) Characterized by or aspiring to impracticable perfection; "the dim utopian future"; "utopian idealists"; "recognized the utopian nature of his hopes" [ant: dystopian].

Utopian (n.) An idealistic (but usually impractical) social reformer; "a Utopian believes in the ultimate perfectibility of man."

Utopianism (n.) The ideas, views, aims, etc., of a Utopian; impracticable schemes of human perfection; optimism.

Utopianism (n.) The political orientation of a Utopian who believes in impossibly idealistic schemes of social perfection.

Utopianist (n.) An Utopian; an optimist.

Utopical (a.) Utopian; ideal. [Obs.] "Utopical perfection." -- Bp. Hall.

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