Usage and Method

noun

• The act of using.
  • usage: "he warned against the use of narcotic drugs"; "skilled in the utilization of computers"
  • synonyms: use, utilization, utilisation, employment, exercise
• Accepted or habitual practice.
  • synonyms: custom, usance
• The customary manner in which a language (or a form of a language) is spoken or written.
  • usage: "English usage"; "a usage borrowed from French"

• (n.) Long-continued practice; customary mode of procedure; custom; habitual use; method.
• (n.) The act of using; mode of using or treating; treatment; conduct with respect to a person or a thing; as, good usage; ill usage; hard usage.
• (n.) Manners; conduct; behavior.
• (n.) Customary use or employment, as of a word or phrase in a particular sense or signification.
• (n.) Experience.

noun

• A way of doing something, especially a systematic way; implies an orderly logical arrangement (usually in steps. )
• An acting technique introduced by Stanislavsky in which the actor recalls emotions or reactions from his or her own life and uses them to identify with the character being portrayed.
  • synonyms: method acting

• (n.) An orderly procedure or process; regular manner of doing anything; hence, manner; way; mode; as, a method of teaching languages; a method of improving the mind.
• (n.) Orderly arrangement, elucidation, development or classification; clear and lucid exhibition; systematic arrangement peculiar to an individual.
• (n.) Classification; a mode or system of classifying natural objects according to certain common characteristics; as, the method of Theophrastus; the method of Ray; the Linnaean method.