used to

EN[juːs(t).tu] [juːs(t).tə]
US

Definition of used to in English Dictionary

• Verb
  1. (temporal location) Formerly, and habitually or repeatedly, but possibly no longer.
     1. I used to be undecided, but now I’m not so sure.  I used to like that band and I still do.   I used to know a guy from the UK who pronounced "mother" without the "r".   It used to be me, sitting in that chair.   There used to be open fields here. Now it's a shopping mall. ‎
• Adjective
  1. IDI (with noun phrase) Accustomed to, tolerant or accepting of.
     1. I am used to cleaning up other people’s mess.  I became used to his ways. ‎
• More Examples
  1. Used in the Middle of Sentence
     • The kick-step she'd used to make steps out of the play area, was necessary to keep from sliding while walking across a slope.
     • Having noted T'ang Lan's remarks, Watson updated and amended his earlier views and accepted the device as a pi, or bow-guard, somehow used to "straiten" [sic] or guard an unstrung compound bow.
     • In Principal Component Analysis FOBA (PCA FOBA), PCA was used transductively to select a subset of features (PCA features) and FoBa was used to fit a model.
  2. Used in the Ending of Sentence
     • Editors of newspapers allow more vulgarisms to go to print today than they used to.

• Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
  1. Phrases
     • Non-constituents
     • Phrasal verbs
       • Phrasal verbs with particle (to)
  2. Adjectives
     • Uncomparable adjectives
  3. Adverbs
     • Time adverbs
       • Temporal location adverbs
  4. Verbs
     • Phrasal verbs
       • Phrasal verbs with particle (to)

Other Vocabulary

1. en see to
2. en used up
3. en sedate
4. en lie to
5. en use up

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