- Look up
utility in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Utility is a
measure of the
happiness or
satisfaction gained from a good or
service in
economics and...
- A
useful idiot or
useful fool is a
pejorative description of a person,
suggesting that the
person thinks they are
fighting for a
cause without fully comprehending...
-
Useful art, or
useful arts or technics, is
concerned with the
skills and
methods of
practical subjects such as
manufacture and craftsmanship. The phrase...
- some are
useful". The
aphorism acknowledges that
statistical models always fall
short of the
complexities of
reality but can
still be
useful nonetheless...
- The
Really Useful Group Ltd. (RUG) is an
international company set up in 1977 by
Andrew Lloyd Webber. It is
involved in theatre, film, television, video...
- The term
useful Jew was used in
various historical contexts,
typically describing a Jew
useful in
implementing an
official authority's policy, sometimes...
- A
useful man or
houseman is a male
domestic worker ranking below a
footman but
above a hall boy.
Unlike the footman, the
useful man
never enters the dining...
- This
article contains a list of
useful plants,
meaning a
plant that has been or can be co-opted by
humans to
fulfill a
particular need.
Rather than listing...
- his career,
Juran preferred to
describe this as "the
vital few and the
useful many" to
highlight that the
contribution of the
remaining 80%
should not...
- is in
general not
distinctive (and for
historical comparisons not very
useful);
there are, however, a few
instances where stress is phonemic, serving...
