urgent, adj. 1. imperative, exigent, crucial, critical; important, serious, grave, severe; compelling, demanding, pressing, instant, high-priority; vital, necessitous, necessary, primary, obligatory, compulsory; requisite, indispensable, essential.
2. crying, importunate, clamorous, insistent, pertinacious; forceful, pushing, clamant, loud; earnest, solicitous, begging, pleading,
urn, n. 1. vase, bowl, crock, amphora, vessel, pot; ewer, cruse, bottle, pitcher, jug, decanter, flask, jar; funeral urn, cinerarium, ossuary, cinerary urn, bone pot.
2. samovar, teapot, coffeepot, coffee maker, percolator.
usage, n. 1. custom, practice, habit, tradition, way; form, formality, convention, matter of course, observance; routine, course, manner, method, procedure, policy, rule; wont, habitude, consuetude, praxis; fashion, mode, common practice, the way it's done, way of doing things, prescription, folkway.
2. treatment, handling, management, way of dealing, maneuvering; conduct, running, operation, manipulation, control, administration.
3. manner of speaking, manner, speech, diction, language, parole, talk; idiom, parlance, phraseology, dialect, ideolect; expression, locution, wording, word, utterance, turn of expression, phrasing.
4. employment, application, exercise, practice. See - use (def. 7).
use, v. 1. employ, make use of, utilize, apply; ply, wield, operate, manipulate, maneuver; handle, practice, exercise, exert, bring to bear, bring into play, play; occupy, put into service, have the use of.
2. avail oneself of, make the most of, take up, convert to use, get the best out of, put to use; turn to account, profit by, capitalize, make play with; resort to, have recourse to, betake oneself to, fall back on, make do with, press into service; turn to, run to, recur to, Inf. take to, refer to; take advantage of, benefit by, make good use of, put to advantage, reap the benefit of, Inf. make hay.
3. exploit, take advantage of, abuse, manipulate, misuse; play upon, impose upon, trade upon, walk all over [s.o.j; bleed, drain, suck dry, milk; play for a sucker, presume upon, use for one's own ends, work upon.
4. spend, expend, consume, pass, devote, occupy; give, take, take up, fill; dedicate, consecrate, put, make, bestow.
5. use up exhaust, consume, deplete, run through, go through; waste, fritter away, squander, throw away, gamble away; lose, pour down the drain, spill, diddle away, fribble away, fool away; finish off, gobble up, swallow, absorb, drain.
6. used to accustomed to, in the habit of, wont to, given to, prone to; in the practice or custom of, addicted to; would, did; familiar with, acquainted with, adapted to, familiar with; inured to, tempered to, toughened to, hardened to.
-n. 7. employment, exercise, practice, usage, application, utilization, Archaic, usance; operation, manipulation, maneuvering, management, working, handling; exploitation, treatment, wear, wear and tear; abhibition, disposal, administration, conversion.
8. power, right, privilege, usufruct, enjoyment, usage; grant, prerogative, license, libertv.
9. advantage, benefit, profit, interest, behalf, behoof; service, help, avail, convenience, good; support, office, benefaction.
10. usefulness, applicability, serviceability, convertibility. See - utility (def. 1).
11. occasion, need, purpose, reason, cause; call, motive, basis, point, ground.
12. form, practice, common practice, custom. See - usage (def. 1).
