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| TV Shop | As seen on TV: beauty, diets, exercise, household, kitchen, personal, vitamins, and other popular TV-products. |
| ADJECTIVE | 1 | utility, utility-grade | Used of beef |
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| 2 | utility, substitute | Capable of substituting in any of several positions on a team | |
| NOUN | 1 | utility, public utility, public utility company, public-service corporation | A company that performs a public service |
| 2 | utility, usefulness | The quality of being of practical use | |
| 3 | utility | The service (electric power or water or transportation) provided by a public utility | |
| 4 | utility | (economics) a measure that is to be maximized in any situation involving choice | |
| 5 | utility, utility program, service program | (computer science) a program designed for general support of the processes of a computer | |
| 6 | utility | 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 |
| Sounds | yuwtih'lahtiy |
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| Rhymes | ability, abnormality, absentee, and 622 more rhymes in tiy... |
| Meaning | Used of beef. Usable but inferior. |
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| Synonyms | utility-grade |
| Similar to | inferior |
| Meaning | Capable of substituting in any of several positions on a team. |
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| Examples | "a utility infielder" |
| Synonyms | substitute |
| Similar to | secondary |
| Meaning | A company that performs a public service. Subject to government regulation. |
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| Synonyms | public utility, public utility company, public-service corporation |
| Broader | service |
| Narrower | telephone company, telephone service, phone company, phone service, telco; power company, power service, electric company, light company; water company, waterworks; gas company, gas service; bus company, bus service |
| Meaning | The quality of being of practical use. |
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| Synonyms | usefulness |
| Contrary | inutility, uselessness, unusefulness |
| Broader | quality |
| Narrower | detergency, detergence; function, purpose, role, use; helpfulness; use; serviceability, serviceableness, usableness, useableness, usability; instrumentality; practicality; practicability, practicableness |
| Attributes | useful, utile; useless |
| Adjectives | utilitarian; utile; utilitarian; utilitarian; utilitarian |
| Verbs | utilize, utilise |
| Meaning | The service (electric power or water or transportation) provided by a public utility. |
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| Broader | service |
| Meaning | (economics) a measure that is to be maximized in any situation involving choice. |
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| Category | economics, economic science, political economy |
| Broader | system of measurement, metric |
| Narrower | marginal utility |
| Meaning | (computer science) a program designed for general support of the processes of a computer. |
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| Examples | "a computer system provides utility programs to perform the tasks needed by most users" |
| Synonyms | utility program, service program |
| Parts | utility routine, service routine |
| Category | computer science, computing |
| Broader | program, programme, computer program, computer programme |
| Narrower | driver, device driver; diagnostic program; input program; output program; sort program, sorting program; trace program |
| Meaning | 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. |
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| Broader | facility, installation |
| Narrower | electrical system, electrical plant; heating system, heating plant, heating, heat; plumbing, plumbing system |
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