user

n.

1. One that uses: a user of public transportation.
2. Law. The exercise or enjoyment of a right or property.
3. One who uses addictive drugs.

noun

One who consumes goods and services: consumer, customer. See give/take/reciprocity, used/unused.

1. Someone doing ‘real work’ with the computer, using it as a means rather than an end. Someone who pays to use a computer. See real user.

2. A programmer who will believe anything you tell him. One who asks silly questions. [GLS observes: This is slightly unfair. It is true that users ask questions (of necessity). Sometimes they are thoughtful or deep. Very often they are annoying or downright stupid, apparently because the user failed to think for two seconds or look in the documentation before bothering the maintainer.] See luser.

3. Someone who uses a program from the outside, however skillfully, without getting into the internals of the program. One who reports bugs instead of just going ahead and fixing them.

The general theory behind this term is that there are two classes of people who work with a program: there are implementors (hackers) and lusers. The users are looked down on by hackers to some extent because they don't understand the full ramifications of the system in all its glory. (The few users who do are known as real winners.) The term is a relative one: a skilled hacker may be a user with respect to some program he himself does not hack. A LISP hacker might be one who maintains LISP or one who uses LISP (but with the skill of a hacker). A LISP user is one who uses LISP, whether skillfully or not. Thus there is some overlap between the two terms; the subtle distinctions must be resolved by context.

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - bruger, konsument

idioms:

• right of user    brugsret, brugsrettighed

Nederlands (Dutch)
gebruiker, verbruiker, drugsverslaafde

Français (French)
n. - usager, utilisateur, (US) homme/femme intéressé/-e

idioms:

• right of user    droit de l'utilisateur/l'usager

Deutsch (German)
n. - Benutzer, Verbraucher

idioms:

• right of user    Verbraucherrecht

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - χρήστης

idioms:

• right of user    (νομ.) χρησικτησία

Italiano (Italian)
consumatore, utente

idioms:

• right of user    diritto di uso

Português (Portuguese)
n. - usuário (m)

idioms:

• right of user    direito de usuário

Русский (Russian)
пользователь, потребитель, наркоман, право давности

idioms:

• right of user    право пользования

Español (Spanish)
n. - usuario

idioms:

• right of user    el derecho de uso

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - förbrukare, konsument, knarkare (sl.)

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
使用者, 权利的实际享有, 使用物

idioms:

• right of user    连续使用权, 使用者权利

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 使用者, 權利的實際享有, 使用物

idioms:

• right of user    連續使用權, 使用者權利

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 사용자, 소비자, 마약 복용자

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 使用者

idioms:

• right of user    使用権

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) مستعمل, منتفع من, مستخدم, مدمن‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮משתמש, מכור לסם‬

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