huó​yòng

apply creatively

活用 huó​yòng
apply creatively verb
to apply knowledge, principles, or skills in a creative and flexible manner

The key to learning knowledge is being able to apply it flexibly.

use flexibly verb
to use a word flexibly, such as employing one part of speech as another

In ancient Chinese, the phenomenon of nouns being used as verbs is very common.

Frequency

Written text
4.90 per million

Sources

Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
BCC Corpus (BLCU)