Literary notes about user (AI summary)
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.
- 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 - 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 - : 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 - Log in to this host as user "anonymous."
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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