user
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English usere, equivalent to use + -er. Cognate with Scots usar, uiser (“user”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈjuːzə/
- (General American) enPR: yo͞o′zər, IPA(key): /ˈjuzɚ/
Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -uːzə(ɹ)
- Hyphenation: us‧er
Noun
[edit]user (plural users)
- One who uses or makes use of something, a consumer/client or an express or implied licensee (free user) or a trespasser.
- 2013 July 20, “Out of the gloom”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:
- [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.
- 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
- A person who uses drugs, especially illegal drugs.
- (computing) A person who uses a computer or a computing network, especially a person who has received a user account.
- (derogatory) An exploiter, an abuser (a person who "uses" people, that is treats and regards people unfairly, selfishly or unethically).
- (law, dated) 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.
- 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...
- 2012, R. (Stephen Malpass) v Durham County Council, [2012] EWHC 1934 (Admin) http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Admin/2012/1934.html
Usage notes
[edit]In modern law, the legal sense is widely disfavored in order to guard against ambiguity.
Synonyms
[edit]- (one that unfairly takes advantage of or exploits): parasite
Antonyms
[edit]Hypernyms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]- 10-foot user interface
- character user interface
- 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
- single-user
- super-user
- useR
- 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
- usermode
- user name
- user page
- user story
- user time
- user-unfriendly
- user-worked
- use the user
- wheelchair user
- zombie user
Related terms
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Anagrams
[edit]Blagar
[edit]Adjective
[edit]user
References
[edit]- Antoinette Schapper, The Papuan Languages of Timor, Alor and Pantar: Volume 1 (2014), p. 158
Czech
[edit]Verb
[edit]user
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old French user, from Early Medieval Latin ūsāre, frequentative from Latin ūtī.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]user
- to wear, wear down, wear off, wear out, grind down, run in
- Trois kilomètres à pied, ça use les souliers.
- Three kilometers on foot wears out the shoes.
- to use (used with de)
- Ne m’obligez pas à user de la force.
- Don't make me use force.
Conjugation
[edit]infinitive | simple | user | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | usant /y.zɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | usé /y.ze/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | use /yz/ |
uses /yz/ |
use /yz/ |
usons /y.zɔ̃/ |
usez /y.ze/ |
usent /yz/ |
imperfect | usais /y.zɛ/ |
usais /y.zɛ/ |
usait /y.zɛ/ |
usions /y.zjɔ̃/ |
usiez /y.zje/ |
usaient /y.zɛ/ | |
past historic2 | usai /y.ze/ |
usas /y.za/ |
usa /y.za/ |
usâmes /y.zam/ |
usâtes /y.zat/ |
usèrent /y.zɛʁ/ | |
future | userai /yz.ʁe/ |
useras /yz.ʁa/ |
usera /yz.ʁa/ |
userons /yz.ʁɔ̃/ |
userez /yz.ʁe/ |
useront /yz.ʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | userais /yz.ʁɛ/ |
userais /yz.ʁɛ/ |
userait /yz.ʁɛ/ |
userions /y.zə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
useriez /y.zə.ʁje/ |
useraient /yz.ʁɛ/ | |
(compound tenses) |
present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
past anterior2 | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | use /yz/ |
uses /yz/ |
use /yz/ |
usions /y.zjɔ̃/ |
usiez /y.zje/ |
usent /yz/ |
imperfect2 | usasse /y.zas/ |
usasses /y.zas/ |
usât /y.za/ |
usassions /y.za.sjɔ̃/ |
usassiez /y.za.sje/ |
usassent /y.zas/ | |
(compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | use /yz/ |
— | usons /y.zɔ̃/ |
usez /y.ze/ |
— | |
compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en. | |||||||
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). |
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Romanian: uza
References
[edit]- “user”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
[edit]Gallo
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old French user, from Early Medieval Latin ūsāre, frequentative from Latin ūtī.
Verb
[edit]user
- (transitive, cooking) to boil down
Middle English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Noun
[edit]user
- Alternative form of usere
Etymology 2
[edit]Noun
[edit]user
- Alternative form of usure
Old English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Germanic *unseraz (“of us, our”), from Proto-Indo-European *n̥s-ero- (“our”). Cognate with Old Frisian ūse(r) (“our”), Old Saxon ūser (“our”), Old High German unsēr, unsār (“our”), Old Norse órr, várr (“our”), Gothic 𐌿𐌽𐍃𐌰𐍂 (unsar, “our”). Related to Old English ūs (“us”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Pronoun
[edit]ūser (possessive)
- (Northumbrian or poetic) Alternative form of ūre
Usage notes
[edit]In poetry, only the nominative singular and accusative singular neuter ūser, and the accusative singular masculine ūserne are found. In other cases, forms of ūre or usser are used
Old French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Early Medieval Latin ūsāre, frequentative from Latin ūtī.
Verb
[edit]user
Conjugation
[edit]This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-ss, *-st are modified to s, st. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.
simple | compound | ||||||
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infinitive | user | avoir usé | |||||
gerund | en usant | gerund of avoir + past participle | |||||
present participle | usant | ||||||
past participle | usé | ||||||
person | singular | plural | |||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | jo | tu | il | nos | vos | il | |
simple tenses |
present | us | uses | use | usons | usez | usent |
imperfect | usoie, useie, usoe, useve | usoies, useies, usoes, useves | usoit, useit, usot, useve | usiiens, usiens | usiiez, usiez | usoient, useient, usoent, usevent | |
preterite | usai | usas | usa | usames | usastes | userent | |
future | userai | useras | usera | userons | useroiz, usereiz, userez | useront | |
conditional | useroie, usereie | useroies, usereies | useroit, usereit | useriiens, useriens | useriiez, useriez | useroient, usereient | |
compound tenses |
present perfect | present tense of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect | imperfect tense of avoir + past participle | ||||||
past anterior | preterite tense of avoir + past participle | ||||||
future perfect | future tense of avoir + past participle | ||||||
conditional perfect | conditional tense of avoir + past participle | ||||||
subjunctive | que jo | que tu | qu’il | que nos | que vos | qu’il | |
simple tenses |
present | us | us | ust | usons | usez | usent |
imperfect | usasse | usasses | usast | usissons, usissiens | usissoiz, usissez, usissiez | usassent | |
compound tenses |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | tu | – | nos | vos | – | |
— | use | — | usons | usez | — |
Descendants
[edit]- English terms inherited from Middle English
- English terms derived from Middle English
- English terms suffixed with -er (agent noun)
- English 2-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio links
- Rhymes:English/uːzə(ɹ)
- Rhymes:English/uːzə(ɹ)/2 syllables
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- English terms with quotations
- en:Computing
- English derogatory terms
- en:Law
- English dated terms
- English agent nouns
- en:People
- Blagar lemmas
- Blagar adjectives
- Czech non-lemma forms
- Czech verb forms
- Czech vulgarities
- French terms inherited from Old French
- French terms derived from Old French
- French terms inherited from Early Medieval Latin
- French terms derived from Early Medieval Latin
- French terms derived from Latin
- French 2-syllable words
- French terms with IPA pronunciation
- French terms with audio links
- French lemmas
- French verbs
- French terms with usage examples
- French verbs with conjugation -er
- French first group verbs
- Gallo terms inherited from Old French
- Gallo terms derived from Old French
- Gallo terms inherited from Early Medieval Latin
- Gallo terms derived from Early Medieval Latin
- Gallo terms derived from Latin
- Gallo lemmas
- Gallo verbs
- Gallo transitive verbs
- roa-gal:Cooking
- Middle English lemmas
- Middle English nouns
- Old English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
- Old English terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Old English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Old English terms with IPA pronunciation
- Old English lemmas
- Old English pronouns
- Old French terms inherited from Early Medieval Latin
- Old French terms derived from Early Medieval Latin
- Old French terms derived from Latin
- Old French lemmas
- Old French verbs
- Old French verbs with weak-a preterite
- Old French first group verbs
- Old French verbs ending in -er