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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Easy to use or learn to use.
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- adjective
designed to beeasy for anuntrained user touse ; especially (for a computer system) having a uniformlook and feel and standardwidgets
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective easy to use
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Examples
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Or a word that some now find more user-friendly than sex, even though it produces its own brand of awkwardness for suggesting that sex is somehow to be avoided: sexuality.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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By the time the World Wide Web, or WWW, was up and running with a user-friendly web browser, Mosaic, implemented in 1993, the Soviet Union was history.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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Or a word that some now find more user-friendly than sex, even though it produces its own brand of awkwardness for suggesting that sex is somehow to be avoided: sexuality.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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With its user-friendly form of worship, flexible theology, multi-leveled membership commitments, and diverse family of small groups, Saddleback Church seems to have found a way to be all things to all people, which may be one explanation for its staggering growth.
American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010
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By the time the World Wide Web, or WWW, was up and running with a user-friendly web browser, Mosaic, implemented in 1993, the Soviet Union was history.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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Phonics might be described as user-friendly – there are lots of clues and reminders to help you along.
Dolch Words: How Dummies Teach Reading « Literacy Articles « Articles « Literacy News 2009
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The software packages offer an easy, user-friendly way to learn one of the most difficult and complex languages on the planet.
Learn English Using Software – Write Like a Pro! « Articles « Literacy News 2009
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Plus: This user-friendly machine has it all: a thermometer that told us when to add the yogurt culture, a digital display that let us set the incubation times with great precision, reminder tones five and 10 minutes before the yogurt was ready, and an automatic shutoff feature.
WSJ Test Kitchen: Yogurt Makers Laura Moser 2011
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A user-friendly format and a rich array of features make this an essential tool for reading and writing, translation and schoolwork.
Larousse Concise Dictionary: French-English/English-French « Books « Literacy News 2009
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This user-friendly book was written especially for them.
Basic American Grammar and Usage: An ESL/EFL Handbook « Books « Literacy News 2009
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