user
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjuːzə/
enpr: yo͞o′zər
ipa: /ˈjuzɚ/
rhymes: -uːzə(ɹ)
Forms: form: users
Etymology: From Middle English usere, equivalent to use + -er. Cognate with Scots usar, uiser (“user”).
Senses: examples: text: [Rural solar plant] schemes are of little help to industry or other heavy users of electricity. Nor is solar power yet as cheap as the grid. For all that, the rapid arrival of electric light to Indian villages is long overdue. When the national grid suffers its next huge outage, as it did in July 2012 when hundreds of millions were left in the dark, look for specks of light in the villages.
ref: 2013 July 20, “Out of the gloom”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:
text: 2019, The Highway Code (United Kingdom) Road Users Requiring Extra Care
The most vulnerable road users are pedestrians, cyclists, motorcyclists and horse riders. It is particularly important to be aware of children, older and disabled people, and learner and inexperienced drivers and riders. https://www.gov.uk/guidance/the-highway-code/road-users-requiring-extra-care-204-to-225
glosses: One who uses or makes use of something, a consumer or client or an express or implied licensee (free user) or a trespasser.
glosses: A person who uses drugs, especially illegal drugs.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A person who uses a computer or a computing network, especially a person who has received a user account.
glosses: Clipping of username.
glosses: An exploiter, an abuser (a person who exploits others, that is treats and regards people unfairly, selfishly or unethically).
examples: 2012, R. (Stephen Malpass) v Durham County Council, [2012] EWHC 1934 (Admin) http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Admin/2012/1934.html
As to evidence of user...
As to quality of user (i.e. was use by the public "as of right"), the inspector found that the grass over the whole of the application land has been regularly cut...
...which the inspector did not find sufficient of itself to render user permissive. Moreover, the defendant could not, the inspector advised, rely on communication to users that access to the land was regulated. Deferment to users of the organised pitches...
topics: law
glosses: In land law, meaning either 1. or 2. above or use. Usually in singular form to mean use wherever there is assiduous re-use of precedents and aloof textbooks verbatim.
Synonyms: sense: one that unfairly takes advantage of or exploits
word: parasite
Hypernyms: person
Derived terms: 10-foot user interface
character user interface
drug user
end-user
end user
end user license agreement
graphical user interface
healthy user bias
magic user
mail user agent
multi-user dungeon
multi-user
multiuser
natural user interface
power user
re-user
road user
root user
single-user
super-user
useR
user account
user agent
user-centric
usercentric
user charge
user control
User Datagram Protocol
user-defined
user-defined function
user-defined graphic
useress
user experience
user-friendliness
user friendly
user-friendly
user-generated content
user group
user-hostile
user ID
usermode
user name
user page
user story
user time
user-unfriendly
user-upper
user-worked
use the user
wheelchair user
zombie user
Related terms: abuser
misuser
user guide
user interface
user manual
user satisfaction
user's guide
user's manual