useR
nounEtymology Blend of user + R.
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Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Programming, Sciences Slang Someone who uses the R programming language.
user
nounalso spelled useRUK /ˈjuːzə/ · US /ˈjuzɚ/
Etymology From Middle English usere, equivalent to use + -er. Cognate with Scots usar, uiser (“user”).
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One who uses or makes use of something, a consumer or client or an express or implied licensee (free user) or a trespasser.
- [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.2013 July 20, “Out of the gloom”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:
- 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
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A person who uses drugs, especially illegal drugs.
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Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences A person who uses a computer or a computing network, especially a person who has received a user account.
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Derogatory An exploiter, an abuser (a person who exploits others, that is treats and regards people unfairly, selfishly or unethically).
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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...
- Synonyms
- parasite
- Antonyms
- nonuser, non-user
- Derived terms
53 terms
10-foot user interface, character user interface, drug user, end-user, end user, end user license agreement, graphical user interface, healthy user bias, magic user, mail user agent, multi-user dungeon, multi-user, multiuser, natural user interface, power user, re-user, road user, root user, single-user, super-user, useR, user account, user agent, user base, user-centric, usercentric, user charge, user control, User Datagram Protocol, user-defined, user-defined function, user-defined graphic, useress, user experience, user-friendliness, user-friendly, user friendly, user-generated content, user group, user-hostile, user ID, usermode, user name, user page, user plane, user story, user time, user-unfriendly, user-upper, user-worked, use the user, wheelchair user, zombie user- Related terms
- abuser, misuser, user guide, user interface, user manual, user satisfaction, user's guide, user's manual
- Hypernyms
- person