Re: "consume" = "interact with"

[Suzanne Chiles <suzchiles -at- gmail -dot- com>]

 mmmmm .... I think I'll have a nice helping of web services for lunch. :-)
"Use" is a perfectly good word. I wish more writers stuck with good, plain
words.

Suzanne

On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 7:03 PM, Andrew Warren <awarren -at- synaptics -dot- com>wrote:

> Lin Sims wrote:
>
> > To quote (without identifying the product in question):
> >
> > "The [product] Client provides an interface for developers to consume
> > web services on the [product] application server."
>
> Oh.
>
> Yeah, it's standard jargon; a Google search for "consume web services"
> finds 45,000 hits.
>
> -Andrew
>
> ===
>
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