What does user mean?

Definitions for user
ˈyu zərus·er

This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word user.

Princeton's WordNet

  1. usernoun

    a person who makes use of a thing; someone who uses or employs something

  2. exploiter, usernoun

    a person who uses something or someone selfishly or unethically

  3. drug user, substance abuser, usernoun

    a person who takes drugs

Wiktionary

  1. usernoun

    One who uses or makes use of something, a consumer.

  2. usernoun

    A person who uses drugs, especially illegal drugs.

  3. usernoun

    A person who uses a computer or a computing network, especially a person who has received a user account.

  4. usernoun

    An exploiter, an abusive user (a person who uses something or someone unfairly, selfishly and/or unethically).

  5. Etymology: From unseraz, from no-s-ero-. Cognate with user, user, unser, unsar, 033F033D034303300342, us.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Usernoun

    One who uses.

    Etymology: from use.

    Such things, which, by imparting the delight to others, makes the user thereof welcome, as musick, dancing, hunting, feasting, riding. Philip Sidney.

    My lord received from the countess of Warwick, a lady powerful in the court, and indeed a virtuous user of her power, the best advice that was ever given. Henry Wotton.

Wikipedia

  1. User

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ChatGPT

  1. user

    A user refers to a person or a software that utilizes or consumes a product, service, or system to achieve a particular goal. This term is often used in the context of computing or technology-related fields, indicating someone who uses a computer, software application, internet services, or other technological devices or systems. In a broader aspect, a user can also refer to anyone who uses or consumes goods, services, substances, or facilities.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Usernoun

    one who uses

  2. Usernoun

    enjoyment of property; use

Wikidata

  1. User

    A user is an agent, either a human agent or software agent, who uses a computer or network service. A user often has a user account and is identified by a username. Other terms for username include login name, screen name, nickname, or handle, which is derived from the identical Citizen's Band radio term. Users are also widely characterized as the class of people that use a system without complete technical expertise required to understand the system fully. In hacker-related contexts, such users are also divided into lusers and power users. In projects in which the actor of the system is another system or a software agent, it is quite possible that there is no end-user for the system. In this case, the end-users for the system would be indirect end-users.

The New Hacker's Dictionary

  1. user

    1. Someone doing ‘real work’ with the computer, using it as a means rather than an end. Someone who pays to use a computer. See real user. 2. A programmer who will believe anything you tell him. One who asks silly questions. [GLS observes: This is slightly unfair. It is true that users ask questions (of necessity). Sometimes they are thoughtful or deep. Very often they are annoying or downright stupid, apparently because the user failed to think for two seconds or look in the documentation before bothering the maintainer.] See luser. 3. Someone who uses a program from the outside, however skillfully, without getting into the internals of the program. One who reports bugs instead of just going ahead and fixing them.The general theory behind this term is that there are two classes of people who work with a program: there are implementors (hackers) and lusers. The users are looked down on by hackers to some extent because they don't understand the full ramifications of the system in all its glory. (The few users who do are known as real winners.) The term is a relative one: a skilled hacker may be a user with respect to some program he himself does not hack. A LISP hacker might be one who maintains LISP or one who uses LISP (but with the skill of a hacker). A LISP user is one who uses LISP, whether skillfully or not. Thus there is some overlap between the two terms; the subtle distinctions must be resolved by context.

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British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'user' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #1664

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'user' in Written Corpus Frequency: #4471

  3. Nouns Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'user' in Nouns Frequency: #352

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Anagrams for user »

  1. rues

  2. ruse

  3. Ruse

  4. sure

  5. suer

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of user in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of user in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of user in a Sentence

  1. Rick Osterloh:

    Security and privacy are a huge consideration when we design these products, we also make sure that when we're designing products, we're thinking through all privacy considerations for the end user. Our approach to this is to make sure that we give users lots of control and transparency about all of the privacy considerations in their product usage.

  2. Eleni Linos:

    The phone user needs to retain the power to choose what happens. Every domestic violence and sexual assault situation is different, and the phone won't know if the abuser suddenly re-enters the room, grabs the phone, or starts listening in. It's tempting to say that the phone should automatically dial 9-1-1, but that could lead to an increase in the number of accidental calls, limit emergency services' capacity to respond to actual urgent calls, and worst of all might tip off the perpetrator that his or her victim is trying to get help.

  3. Volker Franke:

    It could be that somebody will squeeze their way between the two, telling the equipment user he won't have to bother about what type of machines to use any more. This service provider will be from the digital world.

  4. Jessica Liu:

    The social networks have one goal : They need to drive user engagement in order to serve ads.

  5. Debra Aho Williamson:

    Despite all of the concerns that have been swirling around the company in the past two years, it beat expectations on revenue, and it demonstrated continued growth in its user base, this is a company that has shown that it can withstand ongoing criticism of its practices and yet still pull out gains in both revenue and users.

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