That’s a distinction without a difference. Meaning is use.
And anyway - contextually -, the representational natures of "use" (instances) and that of "meaning" (definition) are completely different.
> We investigated sex differences in 473,260 adolescents’ aspirations to work in things-oriented (e.g., mechanic), people-oriented (e.g., nurse), and STEM (e.g., mathematician) careers across 80 countries and economic regions using the 2018 Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA). We analyzed student career aspirations in combination with student achievement in mathematics, reading, and science, as well as parental occupations and family wealth. In each country and region, more boys than girls aspired to a things-oriented or STEM occupation and more girls than boys to a people-oriented occupation. These sex differences were larger in countries with a higher level of women's empowerment. We explain this counter-intuitive finding through the indirect effect of wealth. Women's empowerment is associated with relatively high levels of national wealth and this wealth allows more students to aspire to occupations they are intrinsically interested in.
Source: https://psyarxiv.com/zhvre/ (HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29040132)
Preliminarily and provisionally. Then, they start discussing their concepts - it is the very definition of Intelligence.
Are the logical divisions you make in your mind really indicative of anything other than your arbitrary personal preferences?
If it did, would you believe that’s a real representative nurse because an image model gave it to you?
"It is possible for a man to provide care" is not the same statement as "it is possible for a sexually dimorphic species in a competitive, capitalistic society (...add more qualifications here) to develop a male-dominated caretaking role"
You're just asserting that you could imagine male nurses without creating a logical contradiction, unlike e.g. circles that have corners. That doesn't mean nursing could be a male-dominated industry under current constraints.
Mental definition is that "«artificial»" (out of the internal processing) construct made of relations that reconstructs a meaning. Such ontology is logical - "this is that". (It would not be made of memories, which are processed, deconstructed.)
Concepts are internally refined: their "implicit" definition (a posterior reading of the corresponding mental low-level) is refined.
So? Draw your consequences.
Following what was said, you are stating that "a staggering large number of people are unintelligent". Well, ok, that was noted. Scolio: if unintelligent, they should refrain from expressing judgement (you are really stating their non-judgement), why all the actual expression? If unintelligent actors, they are liabilities, why this overwhelming employment in the job market?
Thing is, as unintelligent as you depict them quantitatively, the internal processing that constitutes intelligence proceeds in many even when scarce, even when choked by some counterproductive bad formation - processing is the natural functioning. And then, the right Paretian side will "do the job" that the vast remainder will not do, and process notions actively (more, "encouragingly" - the process is importantly unconscious, many low-level layers are) and proficiently.
And the very Paretian prospect will reveal, there will be a number of shallow takes, largely shared, on some idea, and other intensively more refined takes, more rare, on the same idea. That shows you a distinction between "use" and the asymptotic approximation to meanings as achieved by intellectual application.