user

user (ˈjuːzə)

—n
1.	law
	a. the continued exercise, use, or enjoyment of a right, esp in property
	b. a presumptive right based on long-continued use: right of user
2.	(often in combination) a person or thing that uses: a road-user
3.	informal a drug addict

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Slang Dictionary

user definition

n.
a drug user; a drug addict. (Drugs.) : I want to stop being a user, but I can't do it by myself.

Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
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Computing Dictionary

user definition

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)

Example sentences

Clearly, this object was a sensor designed to automatically flush the toilet

once the end user zipped away.

Drug addiction exacts a variety of ill effects on a user's health.

It only does this when the user presses a button to activate it.

Whereas e-mail messages go to a machine sitting on a desk, text messages go

directly to the mobile phone's user.

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"Neither the historian nor the cartographer can ever reproduce the reality they are trying to communicate to the reader of books or maps; they can but give a plan, a series of indications, of this reality. There are contrasting schemes for choosing from enormous numbers of geographic details. You may have a map in which every feature that can be named, every hill, brook, crossroads, is crowded in; or you may have a map in which many details are omitted in the effort to show the reader the lay of the land, the shape of the mountain systems, the relations of drainage, relief, communications, and so on. Both kinds are useful, depending on the needs of the user."

-Crane Brinton

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