Free Translator Free Translator
Translators Dictionaries Courses Other
Home
English Dictionary      examples: 'day', 'get rid of', 'New York Bay'




User   /jˈuzər/   Listen
User

noun
1.
A person who makes use of a thing; someone who uses or employs something.
2.
A person who uses something or someone selfishly or unethically.  Synonym: exploiter.
3.
A person who takes drugs.  Synonyms: drug user, substance abuser.



Related searches:
user interface
user-friendly
computer user
drug user
end user
graphical user interface
power user
snuff user
tobacco user


WordNet 3.0 © 2010 Princeton University


Advanced search
     Find words:
Starting with
Ending with
Containing
Matching a pattern  

Synonyms
Antonyms
Quotes
Words linked to  

only single words


Share |




"User" Quotes from Famous Books



... particular views as to the leadership of the party. When men have to use other men as tools for the execution of any plan, it is difficult for them to refrain from that tricky handling of them which is best for the immediate end, but debases both the user and the used. To sway men by knowledge of their weaknesses is the task of a charlatan rather than of a statesman. Mr. Gladstone, with all his inconsistency upon the Eastern Question, and in spite of the fact that he had only just seen evils which had always been there, had that which the ...
— The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke V1 • Stephen Gwynn
... dibble user to be sure to crowd over the soil well, especially at the lower end of the hole. For my own part, I rely upon my hands. Digits existed long before dibbles and they are much more reliable. What matter if some soil sticks to ...
— Culinary Herbs: Their Cultivation Harvesting Curing and Uses • M. G. Kains
... the Blood.—It has been noticed for some years that when a user of beer or whisky is attacked with fever, the disease is more severe than in one not using alcohol. The reason for this has lately been explained by a well-known scientist working in Paris. He put certain disease germs in rabbits, but they did not become sick. When he ...
— Health Lessons - Book 1 • Alvin Davison
... of so large an amount of white lead must have been felt and shown most deleteriously upon the complexion of the user ...
— Customs and Fashions in Old New England • Alice Morse Earle
... who is also a friendly visitor, had occasion to use some sugar in one of his experiments, and, being hurried, purchased it from the nearest corner grocery, paying more than the usual price. It proved to be badly adulterated, and the user has been more careful since in advising his poor friends about purchasing provisions. The credit system is the natural outcome of uncertain income, and for that reason is hard to avoid, but in a number of instances it is continued long after the necessity that caused the buyer to ...
— Friendly Visiting among the Poor - A Handbook for Charity Workers • Mary Ellen Richmond


More quotes...


Copyright © 2024 Free-Translator.com