{
  "id": "use.application",
  "term": "use",
  "sense": "application",
  "pos": "verb",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 6,
  "arena": "lexicon",
  "domain": "none",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "to make something change with a control",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "control.ability",
      "change.process",
      "device.tool",
      "make.verb"
    ],
    "interaction": "a control acts through a device to make a change, organizing the components into a directed transformation.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "directed change",
      "functional agency",
      "controlled outcome"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Hubble Space Telescope corrected its blurred vision in 1993 when astronauts installed COSTAR, a device that redirected light properly.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "In 2015, Volkswagen altered emissions software in 11 million cars to change behavior during testing cycles.",
      "domain": "computing"
    },
    {
      "text": "During the 2008 financial crisis, the Federal Reserve used quantitative easing to shift bond markets and lower interest rates.",
      "domain": "economics"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "interaction.process",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
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    "available.accessible",
    "bank.financial",
    "business.economic",
    "buy.economic",
    "cable.electrical",
    "capital.financial",
    "car.transport",
    "cart.transport",
    "computer.digital",
    "concise.linguistic",
    "copyright.legal",
    "discussion.social",
    "economic.financial",
    "effort.general",
    "electronics.electrical",
    "english.language",
    "equipment.tool",
    "example.illustration",
    "fax.communication",
    "finance.economic",
    "food.nutrient",
    "golf.sport",
    "governance.administrative",
    "hardware.physical",
    "internet.digital",
    "life.biological",
    "main.primary",
    "measurement.quantitative",
    "meters.measurement",
    "military.force",
    "phone.electrical",
    "poker.game",
    "policy.governance",
    "pro.professional",
    "profit.economic",
    "rental.economic",
    "screen.visual",
    "services.economic",
    "smith.metalwork",
    "standard.norm",
    "storage.physical",
    "store.place",
    "street.path",
    "supplies.resource",
    "talk.spoken",
    "technical.skill",
    "technology.tool",
    "terms.language",
    "toys.play",
    "treatment.medical",
    "user.role",
    "value.worth",
    "war.conflict",
    "wireless.electrical"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "use",
    "used",
    "uses",
    "using"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "components",
      "note": "Added 'make.verb' to components since the definition relies on causation-as-assembly; interaction and novel properties updated accordingly."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-use.application"
}