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utility 音標拼音: [jut'ɪləti] n. 實用程序,工具
n. 公用程序,實用品,實用,公用事業
a. 實用的,有多種用途的 實用程式,工具公用程式,實用品,實用,公用事業實用的,有多種用途的 utility公用常式
utility公用程式; 公用事業; 公用程式; 實用程式; 應用性; 應用程式 UTILutility公用程式 utility adj 1: used of beef; usable but inferior [ synonym: { utility( a)}, { utility- grade}] 2: capable of substituting in any of several positions on a team; " a utility infielder" [ synonym: { utility( a)}, { substitute( a)}] n 1: a company that performs a public service; subject to government regulation [ synonym: { utility}, { public utility}, { public utility company}, { public- service corporation}] 2: the quality of being of practical use [ synonym: { utility}, { usefulness}] [ ant: { inutility}, { unusefulness}, { uselessness}] 3: 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" 4: ( economics) a measure that is to be maximized in any situation involving choice 5: ( 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" [ synonym: { utility program}, { utility}, { service program}] 6: 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 \ U* til" i* ty\, n. [ OE. utilite, F. utilit[' e], L. utilitas, fr. utilis useful. See { Utile}.] [ 1913 Webster] 1. 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. [ 1913 Webster] The utility of the enterprises was, however, so great and obvious that all opposition proved useless. -- Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster] 2. ( Polit. Econ.) Adaptation to satisfy the desires or wants; intrinsic value. See Note under { Value}, 2. [ 1913 Webster] Value in use is utility, and nothing else, and in political economy should be called by that name and no other. -- F. A. Walker. [ 1913 Webster] 3. Happiness; the greatest good, or happiness, of the greatest number, -- the foundation of utilitarianism. -- J. S. Mill. [ 1913 Webster] 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. [ 1913 Webster] 102 Moby Thesaurus words for " utility": Aktiengesellschaft, account, advantage, advantageousness, aktiebolag, alternate, alternative, appliance, applicability, appropriateness, availability, backup, beneficialness, body corporate, business, business establishment, cartel, chamber of commerce, combine, commercial enterprise, compagnie, company, concern, conglomerate, conglomerate corporation, consolidating company, consortium, convenience, copartnership, corporate body, corporation, counterfeit, diversified corporation, drive, dummy, effectiveness, efficacy, efficiency, engine, enginery, enterprise, equivalent, ersatz, facility, fake, favorableness, firm, fitness, fixture, functionality, helpfulness, holding company, house, imitation, industry, joint- stock association, joint- stock company, machine, machinery, makeshift, mechanical aid, mechanical device, mechanism, mock, motive power, motor, operability, operating company, partnership, phony, pinch, plunderbund, pool, power plant, power source, practicability, practical utility, practicality, profitability, provisional, proxy, public utility, relevance, reserve, secondary, service, serviceability, spare, stock company, stopgap, substitute, syndicate, temporary, tentative, token, trade association, trust, usability, use, usefulness, utilizability, vicarious |
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