| <usg> | (usage) contains usage information in a dictionary entry. | 
| Attributes: | | type | classifies the usage information using any convenient typology. |  |  | Datatype: CDATA |  |  | Legal values: | | geo | geographic area |  | time | temporal, historical era (``archaic'', ``old'',
etc.) |  | dom | domain |  | reg | register |  | style | style (figurative, literal, etc.) |  | plev | preference level (``chiefly'', ``usually'', etc.) |  | lang | lang (language for foreign words, spellings
pronunciations, etc.) |  | gram | grammatical usage |  | syn | synonym given to show use |  | hyper | hypernym given to show usage |  | colloc | collocation given to show usage |  | comp | typical complement |  | obj | typical object |  | subj | typical subject |  | verb | typical verb |  | hint | unclassifiable piece of information to guide sense choice | 
 |  |  | Default: #IMPLIED |  |  | Example: |  | Note |  | 
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| Example |  | 
| Note |  | 
| Tagset | base tag set for printed 
dictionaries | 
| Class | dictionaries, dictionaryParts, dictionaryTopLevel, 
formInfo, gramInfo | 
| Filename | teidict2 | 
| Content: | May contain character data and phrase-level elements. | 
| Parents | entry etym form gramGrp hom re sense trans xr | 
| Children | #PCDATA abbr add address app att bibl biblFull biblStruct c 
caesura camera caption castList cit cl corr damage date dateRange 
dateStruct del distinct emph expan figure foreign formula fw geogName 
gi gloss handShift hi label lang link list listBibl m measure 
mentioned move name note num oRef oVar orgName orig pRef pVar 
persName phr placeName ptr q quote ref reg restore rs s seg sic 
soCalled sound space stage supplied table tag tech term text time 
timeRange timeStruct title unclear val view w witDetail xptr 
xref | 
| Declaration | <!ELEMENT usg           - O  (%paraContent;)                    >
<!ATTLIST usg                %a.global
                             %a.dictionaries
          type               CDATA               #IMPLIED       > | 
| See | 12.3.5.2 |