Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun One that uses.
  • noun One who uses a computer, computer program, or online service.
  • noun One who uses addictive drugs.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who or that which uses.
  • noun In law, the using or exercise, as of a right; continued use or enjoyment; the acting in a manner which implies a claim of right so to do. See non-user.
  • noun The presumptive right arising from continued user.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who uses.
  • noun (Law) Enjoyment of property; use.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun One who uses or makes use of something, a consumer.
  • noun A person who uses drugs, especially illegal drugs.
  • noun computing A person who uses a computer or a computing network, especially a person who has received a user account.
  • noun pejorative An exploiter, an abusive user (a person who uses something or someone unfairly, selfishly and/or unethically).

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a person who makes use of a thing; someone who uses or employs something
  • noun a person who uses something or someone selfishly or unethically
  • noun a person who takes drugs

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Middle English user, equivalent to use +‎ -er.

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Examples

  • This will make the first number-part to show the posts of the user (the one of the profile) and the number next to it will be the total posts made by all of the users. sprintf ($user - > lang [ 'POST_PCT'], $percentage),

    phpBB.com threetrees 2010

  • * Example call: $user-lang ( 'NUM_POSTS_IN_QUEUE', 1); function user_lang () global $user;

    phpBB.com JackMorgan 2010

  • "SELECT user FROM NTKAUCTIONSC_aboutmeusers WHERE user =". intval ($user); $res_ab =

    Webmaster-Talk.com coley2k7 2010

  • This will make the first number-part to show the posts of the user (the one of the profile) and the number next to it will be the total posts made by all of the users. sprintf ($user - > lang [ 'POST_PCT'], $percentage),

    phpBB.com Superderek 2010

  • This will make the first number-part to show the posts of the user (the one of the profile) and the number next to it will be the total posts made by all of the users. sprintf ($user - > lang [ 'POST_PCT'], $percentage),

    phpBB.com imkingdavid 2010

  • "SELECT user FROM NTKAUCTIONSC_aboutmeusers WHERE user =". intval ($user); $res_ab =

    Webmaster-Talk.com coley2k7 2010

  • I installed postfix on my server but i'm not able to send emails: they go out with user@localhost instead of user@ [user-no-ip]. no-ip.biz

    Ubuntu Forums d4ng3r92 2010

  • Just thought you would like to know. hi, phpbb seems to drop the $user - > theme [ 'template_inherits_id']; value when sending a pm to another user. here for details

    phpBB.com wolfman24 2010

  • Factory (: user,: active = false) User. active.should_not include (@user) end end

    RubyCorner 2010

  • This will make the first number-part to show the posts of the user (the one of the profile) and the number next to it will be the total posts made by all of the users. sprintf ($user - > lang [ 'POST_PCT'], $percentage),

    phpBB.com RMcGirr83 2010

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