utility

noun

1. 公用事业
   a service provided for the public, for example an electricity, water or gas supply
   1. the administration of public utilities
      公共事业的管理
2. 实用；效用；有用
   the quality of being useful
3. 实用程序；公用程序
   a piece of computer software that performs a particular task

adj.

1. 多用途的；多效用的；多功能的
   that can be used for several different purposes
   1. an all-round utility player (= one who can play equally well in several different positions in a sport)
      全面型选手

1. N-UNCOUNT 功用;效用;实用
   The utility of something is its usefulness.
   1. Belief in the utility of higher education is shared by students nationwide...
      全国的学生都相信高等教育是有用的。
   2. He inwardly questioned the utility of his work.
      他内心质疑自己的工作是否有用。
2. N-COUNT 公用事业
   A utility is an important service such as water, electricity, or gas that is provided for everyone, and that everyone pays for.
   1. ...public utilities such as gas, electricity and phones.
      煤气、电和电话等公用事业

1. Belief in the utility of higher education is shared by students nationwide
   全国的学生都相信高等教育是有用的。
2. He inwardly questioned the utility of his work.
   他内心质疑自己的工作是否有用。
3. This ware is suitable for decorative purpose but unsuitable for utility.
   这种器皿中看不中用。
4. The utility was entering new and uncharted territory.
   公司进入了一个陌生的、未知的领域。
5. A fur coat has more utility in winter than in autumn.
   毛皮外衣在冬天比在秋天更有用。
6. Practical applicability means that the invention or utility model can be made or used and can produce effective results.
   实用性，是指该发明或者实用新型能够制造或者使用，并且能够产生积极效果。
7. Another new feature is Utility Capacity on Demand, which borrows from the concept of utility computing.
   另一个新特性是UtilityCapacityonDemand，这借用了效用计算的概念。
8. Making debug and release versions can be automated by the make utility.
   可通过make实用程序将调试版本和发行版本的制作自动化。
9. Using this utility, you explored tcp and udp workload tuning while also learning some other noteworthy parameters.
   您使用这个实用工具研究了tcp和udp工作负载优化，同时还了解了一些其他值得关注的参数。
10. You can invoke this utility from the Control Center, in batch jobs, or using the command-line processor.
    您可以从控制中心（ControlCenter）、批处理作业或通过使用命令行处理器来调用该实用程序。
11. For example, this daemon allows the jps utility to list processes on a remote system.
    例如，这个守护程序允许jps工具列出远程系统中的进程。
12. But this kernel can also support guest operating systems, loaded through the kvm utility.
    但是这个内核也可以支持通过kvm工具加载的客户操作系统。
13. The streaming utility within Hadoop implements a type of data flow glue.
    Hadoop内的流实用工具实现了一种数据流胶的类型。
14. The PRACTICE specification determines which utilities are to be monitored and which syntax rules to enforce for each utility.
    PRACTICE规范确定要监视哪些实用程序和对每个实用程序执行哪些语法规则。
15. Ksetup: This utility puts the administration and the information of the KDC servers in the LDAP directory.
    ksetup：这个实用工具将KDC服务器的管理和信息放置于LDAP目录中。
16. Make is a utility to automate the process of building an app from one or more files.
    make是将从一个或多个文件构建应用程序的过程自动化的实用程序。
17. They included a command-line interpreter and some small utility programs.
    还包括一个命令行解释器和一些小的实用程序。
18. There are several ways to do this: Here, I use the Cygwin utility in Windows.
    有很多种方法可以完成此操作：在这里，我使用Windows中的Cygwin实用程序。
19. Each command-line utility provides a-h option, which displays a list of the options available for that command.
    每个命令行实用工具都提供了一个-h选项来显示对该命令可用的选项列表。
20. The previous example illustrated the control of domains using the command-line utility virsh.
    上一个例子说明了如何使用命令行工具virsh实现对域的控制。
21. If you create a very useful script, you can even deploy it as a system-wide utility.
    如果您创建了一个非常有用的脚本，您甚至可以将它部署为系统范围的实用程序。
22. A GUI monitoring utility is also available.
    还提供了一个GUI监视实用程序。
23. Akamai provides a flexible Content Control Utility that you can use to perform this task.
    Akamai提供一个灵活的ContentControl实用程序，可以使用它执行这个任务。
24. The DB2 UDB load utility very efficiently writes data from one or more input files to a database table.
    DB2UDBload工具非常高效地将一个或多个输入文件中的数据写到数据库表中。
25. It contains three utility functions.
    它包含了三个实用函数。
26. There is so much you can monitor and tune within OEM that there are actually books on this utility.
    在OEM中，您可以对许多方面进行监视和优化，事实上，有很多介绍这个实用工具的书籍。
27. This is analogous to many Java methods calling one utility method.
    这就好比许多Java方法调用一个工具方法。
28. You'll find this a handy utility for debugging problems and improving query performance.
    您将发现这个方便的实用程序可用于调试问题和提高查询性能。
29. This solution solves the problem of having multiple copies of the same Utility JAR in a single application.
    这个方案解决了在单一的应用软件中拥有同一个UtilityJAR的多种拷贝的问题。
30. You only need basic knowledge of HACMP and AIX to use this utility.
    您只需拥有HACMP和AIX的基础知识就可以使用此实用工具。

noun

1. the service (electric power or water or transportation) provided by a public utility
   1. the cost of utilities never decreases
   2. all the utilities were lost after the hurricane

2. 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
   1. the price of the house included all utilities

3. the quality of being of practical use

   Synonym:    usefulness

4. (computer science) a program designed for general support of the processes of a computer
   1. a computer system provides utility programs to perform the tasks needed by most users

   Synonym:    utility programservice program

5. a company that performs a public service

   Synonym:    public utilitypublic utility companypublic-service corporation

6. (economics) a measure that is to be maximized in any situation involving choice