user
English
Etymology
From Middle English usere, equivalent to use + -er. Cognate with Scots usar, uiser (“user”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈjuːzə/
- (General American) enPR: yo͞o′zər, IPA(key): /ˈjuzɚ/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -uːzə(ɹ)
- Hyphenation: us‧er
Noun
user (plural users)
- 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.
- 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
- A person who uses drugs, especially illegal drugs.
- (computing) A person who uses a computer or a computing network, especially a person who has received a user account.
- (derogatory) An exploiter, an abuser (a person who "uses" people, that is treats and regards people unfairly, selfishly and/or unethically).
- (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. Modern law, guarded against ambiguity, widely disfavors the term.
- 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...
- R. (Stephen Malpass) v Durham County Council [2012] EWHC 1934 (Admin) http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Admin/2012/1934.html
Synonyms
- (one that unfairly takes advantage of or exploits): parasite
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Anagrams
Blagar
Adjective
user
References
- Antoinette Schapper, The Papuan Languages of Timor, Alor and Pantar: Volume 1 (2014), p. 158
Czech
Verb
user
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
Verb
user
- 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.
- to use (used with de)
- Ne m'obligez pas à user de la force.
- Don't make me use force
Conjugation
infinitive | simple | user | |||||
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compound | avoir + past participle | ||||||
present participle or gerund1 | simple | usant /y.zɑ̃/ | |||||
compound | ayant + past participle | ||||||
past participle | usé /y.ze/ | ||||||
singular | plural | ||||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | je (j’) | tu | il, elle, on | nous | vous | ils, elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | use /yz/ |
uses /yz/ |
use /yz/ |
usons /y.zɔ̃/ |
usez /y.ze/ |
usent /yz/ |
imperfect | usais /y.zɛ/ |
usais /y.zɛ/ |
usait /y.zɛ/ |
usions /y.zjɔ̃/ |
usiez /y.zje/ |
usaient /y.zɛ/ | |
past historic2 | usai /y.ze/ |
usas /y.za/ |
usa /y.za/ |
usâmes /y.zam/ |
usâtes /y.zat/ |
usèrent /y.zɛʁ/ | |
future | userai /yz.ʁe/ |
useras /yz.ʁa/ |
usera /yz.ʁa/ |
userons /yz.ʁɔ̃/ |
userez /yz.ʁe/ |
useront /yz.ʁɔ̃/ | |
conditional | userais /yz.ʁɛ/ |
userais /yz.ʁɛ/ |
userait /yz.ʁɛ/ |
userions /y.zə.ʁjɔ̃/ |
useriez /y.zə.ʁje/ |
useraient /yz.ʁɛ/ | |
(compound tenses) |
present perfect | present indicative of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect | imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle | ||||||
past anterior2 | past historic of avoir + past participle | ||||||
future perfect | future of avoir + past participle | ||||||
conditional perfect | conditional of avoir + past participle | ||||||
subjunctive | que je (j’) | que tu | qu’il, qu’elle | que nous | que vous | qu’ils, qu’elles | |
(simple tenses) |
present | use /yz/ |
uses /yz/ |
use /yz/ |
usions /y.zjɔ̃/ |
usiez /y.zje/ |
usent /yz/ |
imperfect2 | usasse /y.zas/ |
usasses /y.zas/ |
usât /y.za/ |
usassions /y.za.sjɔ̃/ |
usassiez /y.za.sje/ |
usassent /y.zas/ | |
(compound tenses) |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect2 | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | – | – | ||||
simple | — | use /yz/ |
— | usons /y.zɔ̃/ |
usez /y.ze/ |
— | |
compound | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | simple imperative of avoir + past participle | — | |
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en. | |||||||
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). |
Derived terms
Further reading
- “user”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
Gallo
Etymology
From Latin ūsus, past participle of ūtor, ūtī (“use, employ”).
Verb
user
- (transitive, cooking) to boil down
Middle English
Etymology 1
From usen (“to use, make use”), from Old French usser, uiser.
Noun
user (plural users)
- Alternative form of usere
References
- “ūser(e (n.)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-31.
Etymology 2
From Old French usure, from Latin ūsūra.
Noun
user (plural users)
- Alternative form of usure
References
- “ūsūre (n.)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-31.
Old English
Alternative forms
Etymology
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”), Gothic 𐌿𐌽𐍃𐌰𐍂 (unsar, “our”), Old English ūs (“us”).
Pronunciation
Pronoun
ūser (possessive)
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Old French
Etymology
Verb
user
Conjugation
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.
simple | compound | ||||||
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infinitive | user | avoir usé | |||||
gerund | en usant | gerund of avoir + past participle | |||||
present participle | usant | ||||||
past participle | usé | ||||||
person | singular | plural | |||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
indicative | jo | tu | il | nos | vos | il | |
simple tenses |
present | us | uses | use | usons | usez | usent |
imperfect | usoie, useie, usoe, useve | usoies, useies, usoes, useves | usoit, useit, usot, useve | usiiens, usiens | usiiez, usiez | usoient, useient, usoent, usevent | |
preterite | usai | usas | usa | usames | usastes | userent | |
future | userai | useras | usera | userons | useroiz, usereiz, userez | useront | |
conditional | useroie, usereie | useroies, usereies | useroit, usereit | useriiens, useriens | useriiez, useriez | useroient, usereient | |
compound tenses |
present perfect | present tense of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect | imperfect tense of avoir + past participle | ||||||
past anterior | preterite tense of avoir + past participle | ||||||
future perfect | future tense of avoir + past participle | ||||||
conditional perfect | conditional tense of avoir + past participle | ||||||
subjunctive | que jo | que tu | qu’il | que nos | que vos | qu’il | |
simple tenses |
present | us | us | ust | usons | usez | usent |
imperfect | usasse | usasses | usast | usissons, usissiens | usissoiz, usissez, usissiez | usassent | |
compound tenses |
past | present subjunctive of avoir + past participle | |||||
pluperfect | imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle | ||||||
imperative | – | tu | – | nos | vos | – | |
— | use | — | usons | usez | — |
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