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The term “user” appears in literature with a wide range of meanings, reflecting its adaptability to different fields. In legal and property contexts, “user” can imply a right or interest in something, as seen with references to “right of user” that echo traditional property classifications ([1], [2]). In contrast, modern technical literature overwhelmingly employs “user” to denote the individual interacting with computer systems—logging in under specified user names, navigating menus, and operating within multi-user environments ([3], [4], [5], [6]). Moreover, some classical texts extend the concept metaphorically, with “user” suggesting one who crafts rules or engages actively with a process, as in the philosophical musings of Plato, where the user furnishes the rule for inventiveness and tradition ([7], [8]). This breadth of usage underscores how “user” has evolved from referring to legal and material rights to embodying the active individual in both digital and intellectual realms.
  1. free lease-holds, copy lease-holds; folkland[obs3]; chattels real; fixtures, plant, heirloom; easement; right of common, right of user.
    — from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget
  2. This seems to be written of a rural servitude (aqua) which was lost by mere disuse, without adverse user by the servient owner.
    — from The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes
  3. : The data transporters ——————————————— When the online service's host computer is far away, the user often faces the challenges of: 1.
    — from The Online World by Odd De Presno
  4. Log in to this host as user "anonymous."
    — from The Online World by Odd De Presno
  5. The user enters a command, for example a letter or a number in a menu, and the result is returned almost immediately.
    — from The Online World by Odd De Presno
  6. To do so, you have to have greater powers than a normal user; you must become the root user (also called the superuser ).
    — from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
  7. The user of the dictionary is expected to recognize the suffix and its force, and to find in the dictionary the word to which the suffix is appended.
    — from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós
  8. Thus we have three arts: one of use, another of invention, a third of imitation; and the user furnishes the rule to the two others.
    — from The Republic of Plato by Plato

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