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English

Etymology

Contraction of use and the suffix -er.

Pronunciation

  • An audio transcript can be found at en-us-user.ogg


Noun

  1. One who uses or makes use of something, a consumer.
  2. A person who uses drugs, especially illegal drugs.
  3. In the Context of A person who uses a computer or a computing network, especially a person who has received a user account.
  4. An exploiter, an abusive user (a person who uses something or someone unfairly, selfishly and/or unethically).


Synonyms

  • (one that unfairly takes advantage of or exploits): parasite


Derived terms


Translations

  • Bosnian: {{t-|bs|korisnik|m}}
  • Croatian: {{t-|hr|korisnik|m}}
  • Danish: bruger , konsument
  • Finnish: ,
  • French: ,
  • German: {{t+|de|Benutzer|m}}, {{t+|de|Verbraucher|m}}
  • Icelandic: {{t+|is|notandi|m}}
  • Bosnian: {{t-|bs|korisnik|m}}
  • Croatian: {{t-|hr|korisnik|m}}
  • Czech: {{t-|cs|uživatel|m}}
  • Danish: bruger
  • Finnish:
  • French: {{t+|fr|utilisateur|m}}, {{t+|fr|utilisatrice|f}}
  • German: {{t+|de|Benutzer|m}}
  • Icelandic: tölvunotandi , notandi

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Category:English agent nouns

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French

Etymology

From usare.

Verb

user

  1. to wear
  2. : Trois kilomètres à pied, ça use les souliers.
  3. to use
  4. : Ne m'obligez pas à user de la force.


Derived terms


Category:French verbs

de:user et:user el:user fr:user ko:user io:user id:user it:user kk:user lt:user hu:user nl:user pl:user pt:user ru:user simple:user sr:user fi:user sv:user ta:user vi:user tr:user zh:user

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English User \Us"er\, n.
1. One who uses. --Shak.
[1913 Webster]

2. (Law) Enjoyment of property; use. --Mozley & W.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet user
n 1: a person who makes use of a thing; someone who uses or
employs something
2: a person who uses something or someone selfishly or
unethically [syn: exploiter]
3: a person who takes drugs [syn: drug user, {substance
abuser}]
Moby Dictionary
LSD user , acidhead , addict , alcoholic , buyer , chain smoker ,
cocaine sniffer , cokie , consumer , cubehead , dipsomaniac ,
dope fiend , doper , droit du seigneur , drug abuser , drug addict ,
drug user , drunkard , employer , enjoyer , enjoyment of property ,
fiend , freak , glue sniffer , habitual , head , heavy smoker , hophead ,
hype , imperfect usufruct , junkie , marijuana smoker , methhead ,
narcotics addict , operator , owner , perfect usufruct , pillhead ,
pothead , purchaser , right of use , snowbird , speed freak , tripper ,
usufruct


Jargon user n. 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.


FOLDOC 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. A programmer who will believe anything you tell
him. One who asks silly questions without thinking for two
seconds or looking in the documentation. Someone who uses a
program, however skillfully, without getting into the
internals of the program. One who reports bugs instead of
just fixing them. See also luser, real user.

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 term is relative: 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.

2. Any person, organisation, process, device,
program, protocol, or system which uses a service provided
by others.

The term "client" (as in "client-server" systems) is
rather more specific, usually implying two processes
communicating via some protocol.

[Jargon File]

(1996-04-28)


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