What does "user" mean?
One who uses or makes use of something, a consumer or client or an express or implied licensee (free user) or a trespasser.
User
/ˈjuːzə/ noun, slang
noun, slang ·Common ·High school level
Meaning at a glance
- Primary sense: One who uses or makes use of something, a consumer or client or an express or implied licensee (free user) or a trespasser.
- Grammar: user is listed as noun, slang.
- Nearest alternatives: acidhead, actor, addict, addicts.
- Useful contrasts: bibliographers, janitor, machine-generated.
- Usage evidence: It's simply that I don't really understand what an "oddball" is when said by a Mixi user.
How to use "user"
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 One who uses or makes use of something, a consumer or client or an express or implied licensee (free user) or a trespasser.
"[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."
- 2 Someone who uses the R programming language. slang
- 3 a person who takes drugs wordnet
- 4 A person who uses drugs, especially illegal drugs.
- 5 a person who uses something or someone selfishly or unethically wordnet
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- 6 A person who uses a computer or a computing network, especially a person who has received a user account.
- 7 a person who makes use of a thing; someone who uses or employs something wordnet
- 8 Clipping of username. Internet, abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, informal
- 9 An exploiter, an abuser (a person who exploits others, that is treats and regards people unfairly, selfishly or unethically). derogatory
- 10 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. dated
"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..."
Example
"It's simply that I don't really understand what an "oddball" is when said by a Mixi user."
Common questions
What is a synonym for "user"?
Common synonyms include: acidhead, actor, addict, addicts, adopter, alcoholic.
How do you use "user" in a sentence?
It's simply that I don't really understand what an "oddball" is when said by a Mixi user.
How do you pronounce "user"?
Pronounced /ˈjuːzə/.
Etymology
Etymology 1
From Middle English usere, equivalent to use + -er. Cognate with Scots usar, uiser (“user”).
Etymology 2
Blend of user + R.