user

From Middle English usere, equivalent to use +‎ -er. Cognate with Scots usar, uiser (“user”).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈjuːzə/
• (General American) enPR: yo͞o′zər, IPA^(key): /ˈjuzɚ/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -uːzə(ɹ)
• Hyphenation: us‧er

user (plural users)

1. 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

2. A person who uses drugs, especially illegal drugs.
4. (computing) A person who uses a computer or a computing network, especially a person who has received a user account.
5. (derogatory) An exploiter, an abuser (a person who "uses" people, that is treats and regards people unfairly, selfishly or unethically).
6. (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...

In modern law, the legal sense is widely disfavored in order to guard against ambiguity.

• (one that unfairly takes advantage of or exploits): parasite

• nonuser, non-user

• person

• ERUs, Ersu, Reus, Rues, Ruse, rues, ruse, suer, sure, ures

user

1. fast

• Antoinette Schapper, The Papuan Languages of Timor, Alor and Pantar: Volume 1 (2014), p. 158

user

1. (vulgar) second-person singular imperative of usrat

Inherited from Old French user, from Early Medieval Latin ūsāre, frequentative from Latin ūtī.

• IPA^(key): /y.ze/

• Audio:

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user

1. 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.

2. to use (used with de)

   Ne m’obligez pas à user de la force.

   Don't make me use force.

• eaux usées
• usage
• usé jusqu’à la corde

• → Romanian: uza

• “user”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• rues, ruse, rusé, suer, sure, sûre

From Old French user, from Early Medieval Latin ūsāre, frequentative from Latin ūtī.

user

1. (transitive, cooking) to boil down

user

1. Alternative form of usere

user

1. Alternative form of usure

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”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈuː.ser/, [ˈuː.zer]

ūser (possessive)

1. (Northumbrian or poetic) Alternative form of ūre

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

From Early Medieval Latin ūsāre, frequentative from Latin ūtī.

user

1. to use; to employ; to make use of

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.

• French: user
  • → Romanian: uza
• Gallo: user
• → Middle English: usen
  • English: use