Literary notes about utilized (AI summary)
The term "utilized" is consistently employed to indicate the deliberate and efficient application of resources or talents in varied contexts. In some writings, it denotes the re-purposing of objects for novel functions, such as transforming discarded materials into decorative fans ([1]) or converting flaxen benches into tables ([2]). In other instances, the word underscores the strategic employment of human or intellectual capacity, whether lamenting unrecognized competence ([3]) or celebrating focused achievement ([4]). Its usage even extends to technical discussions about energy or construction, evident when describing efficient use of heat or material properties ([5], [6]). Across these contexts, "utilized" conveys a sense of purposeful, almost engineered, deployment of available assets.
- Pieces of bright, figured wall-paper left from papering a room can be utilized, and quite effective fans be made of them to use for decoration.
— from How to Amuse Youself and Others: The American Girl's Handy Book by Lina Beard - Some of the carpenters' benches that had been used in the construction of the building were utilized for tables.
— from Up from Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington - He took opportunity to criticize the management of the evening, and to deplore the fact that his services had not been utilized.
— from Love at Paddington by W. Pett (William Pett) Ridge - It is one of the paradoxes of civilization that the more opportunities are utilized, the more new ones are thereby created.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden - [28] Since the diesel utilized its heat of combustion more efficiently than the gasoline engine, its cooling fin area could be reduced by 35 percent.
— from The First Airplane Diesel Engine: Packard Model DR-980 of 1928 by Robert B. Meyer - It is this principle, of course, which is utilized in the familiar hydrostatic press.
— from A History of Science — Volume 2 by Edward Huntington Williams
