noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a computer user
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Technology now allows computer users to talk to each other over the Internet.
a drug user (= someone who takes drugs )
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We set up a counselling service for drug users.
a library user
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Library users have been protesting against plans to close the local library.
an Internet user
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The number of Internet users is doubling every six months.
end user
graphical user interface
user fee
user group
user guide
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Details of how to use the various programs are in the user guide .
user interface
user manual
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a user manual
user name
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Please enter your user name and password and click ‘OK’.
wheelchair users
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special parking for wheelchair users
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
current
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Use of the oral contraceptive pill was associated with a small increase in risk that was limited to current users .
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Why are current city water users subsidizing this madness with higher water rates?
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Several reference site visits and telephone enquiries to current users were then made.
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Option 7.2.5 - View User Names provides a list of all current users .
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A pseudo-variable controlling the starting address of the current user program area.
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This relation was most apparent among never users of oral contraceptives, although similar trends were found among current and former users.
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The study discards current Window 3.1 users in the intermediate term because it neither improves their speed nor enriches their functionality.
graphical
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It offers a graphical user interface and uses a simplified data-flow diagramming technique to model the parallel interactions.
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It uses a drag and drop-style graphical user interface based on OSF/Motif.
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Although character-based at the moment, graphical user interfaces are to be available by the end of 1993 for version 6.0.
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Its key components include a graphical user interface builder, database access, reusable application framework and cross-platform portability, it says.
internet
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It may be only when we no longer think of ourselves as internet users that the virtual age will truly have arrived.
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During the holiday rush, Netcom experienced a crush of Internet users , many of them armed with newly bought personal computers.
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Computer use is spreading into every home but more than 80 per cent of Internet users are male.
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That takes the strain off a phone system designed to carry voice and provides higher throughput for Internet users and telecommuters.
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For example, in some cases the bill would make it illegal for Internet users to access information not protected by copyright.
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Many Internet users rely on separate mail programs like Eudora.
known
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Richard Miles was a known user of cannabis, but police have no reason to believe his death was drugs-related.
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This was then compared with the known user list for each township.
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A total of 66 were identified as known users and 97 as hidden.
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Talking to known users During the course of the research programme, a total of 125 heroin users were interviewed.
large
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Previously the world's largest user of punch-cards, Lloyd's switched to an electronic network at the start of this year.
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The competition brought together 36 large and small users of powder coatings for the two-day examination of their application skills.
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Many recent developments have resulted from the demands of large users wanting more from their fryers.
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Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and Mitsubishi Metals are also large users and makers of robots and other factory automation systems.
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But only large users need apply.
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It is also contemplating tie-ups with software houses or large user organisations abroad.
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Many of the largest users have a significant investment already in software, both generic and bespoke.
new
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Instead, the two have got together to work on a new service where users will pay for their downloads.
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In order to see the nifty new designs, users downloaded copies of Netscape Navigator by the millions.
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In creating new users a parent may grant subsets, up to the full set, of his own privileges to his descendants.
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To get new users to stop, the best thing to do is tell them about the consequences.
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An innovative product embodying new technology meets new user needs and sells on performance.
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Selling the program and recruiting new users are important aspects of this information program.
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If all the above conditions are met, the new user will be notified by way of a mail message.
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The problems of speed and storage cast a shadow on almost every task the new Macintosh users performed.
other
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The problems arise when their activities interfere with the freedom of other hill users .
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It had its own permanent staff; hence user - staff interaction was significantly greater than in other user groups.
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Signals are the means by which drivers warn other road users , including pedestrians and cyclists, of their intentions and presence.
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Behind them, other intending users glared in contempt.
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Paul and other wheelchair users want the Government to make sure disabled people have the same access as the able bodied.
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He says they had no regard for other road users .
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In talking to bureaux and other large users of fonts several other solutions emerged.
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Residential respite care for people with learning disabilities, and possibly also for other user groups.
potential
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Such problems would inconvenience existing passengers and may deter potential users .
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Mason, focused on convincing potential business users to consider Explorer as a starting point for connecting to the Internet.
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We could assume that everyone in the population is a user or a potential user of the accounts of public sector organizations.
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Microsoft is estimated to be targeting the 50 million or so potential users of the Windows operating system.
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Software systems exist which can make the life of potential users a lot easier.
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Has there been any investigation as to what the potential users want from the system? 4.
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But clearly very many more potential users think that bank loans would be difficult.
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Then they go out and look at potential users to study their expectations, their values, and their needs.
■ NOUN
computer
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Any computer user soon discovers that sometimes hardware, and more often software, is extremely fallible.
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For another, adept computer users can find a way to break the password or otherwise disable the parentalcontrol software.
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It is capable of running entirely from floppy disks and so allows computer users without a hard drive to produce professional scores.
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Farmington Hills, Michigan-based Compuware develops software products for mainframe computer users .
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It is not always possible to keep things light: one in 10 computer users surveyed have ended a relationship by email.
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But in the gray area of the Internet, activities that publishers call stealing are commonplace for many computer users .
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Buller said he and his partner believe there are now enough home computer users to make their service a viable business.
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But he was right about one thing, she says: There were no guide books specifically geared to female computer users .
drug
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Today the United States has about a million injecting drug users .
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So too with the cost of mental health care and of rehabilitation programs for drug users and for alcoholics.
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Many of these predisposing factors are observed more often among drug users than among homosexual men.
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He says it's vital that drug users have access to supplies of clean syringes.
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It was not attempted to correct the estimated prevalences for the under registration of ulcer drug users by probably 10%.
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Most school drug users said they had been using cannabis.
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Subjects and methods Participants of the follow up study among drug users in Amsterdam have been recruited since December 1985.
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However, the lack of a similar system in prison meant that jailed drug users were still sharing illicit injecting equipment.
education
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Further discussion of this is made in the chapter on school library user education .
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There is some justification for treating user education in universities, polytechnics and the colleges of further and higher education separately.
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However, as more libraries in more educational sectors become involved in user education , this becomes less manageable.
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Has evaluation kept pace with the growing number of courses and programmes in user education ?
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Their user education work therefore has a double focus - short-term and long-term library and information needs.
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But these are exceptional, and traditional user education is largely the second concern.
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Most user education programmes have so far been very much of a local nature with little attempt to communicate experience to others.
end
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The company has developed open systems for resellers and end users since its formation in 1986.
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Educating end users will not be easy.
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This includes feedback from end users of a product or process.
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Forms provide the means to collect and act on data entered by the end user .
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The end user must have an Internet browser capable of accepting and playing the applet.
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Both companies will distribute the unnamed product to OEMs, VARs, integrators and end users .
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The other half came from end user applications.
fee
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We never used to pay user fees in the clinics and hospitals.
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The debt is to be repaid through Pima County residents' user fees .
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The user fees in education and health have been particularly difficult.
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Bush also proposed raising $ 75 million with new user fees for hazardous material shippers and owners of pipelines and railroads.
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Even user fees charged for private goods have some drawbacks.
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Or rule on whether asset sales, user fees , mandates and flashes of congressional ingenuity yet undreamed of violate the Constitution?
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Other user fees actually make public systems more progressive.
group
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They also get membership of the InterWorks workstation users group .
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The user group with an inherently greater potential for implementation is the more privileged section of the society.
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They then persuaded user groups , voluntary bodies, and churches to take these services over.
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This was attributed by staff to the unique organisation of the group when compared with other user groups.
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Newsletters produced by computer user groups and societies also offer useful information on software.
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It had its own permanent staff; hence user - staff interaction was significantly greater than in other user groups .
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The Cheltenham Classification is a scheme for a specific user group .
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This is a well recognized solution to the problem of the manageability of many user groups .
interface
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At a design level, the user interface determines the screen design and its functionality.
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And its innovative user interface features reduce or eliminate the number of steps needed to perform standard spreadsheet operations.
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BRS/Native Mode, a graphical toolkit for command level user interfaces; and BRS/Views, a character-based interface toolkit.
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InConcert uses a graphical user interface and object-oriented user environment.
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Ontos also plans to provide a set of dynamic link library APIs for third party graphical user interfaces .
library
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When some one borrows a book, it is unavailable to other library users until it is returned.
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A mitigating circumstance is the fact that few library users restrict themselves to one source alone for obtaining books.
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Tidiane Ly and Johnnierenee Nelson are already well along the path Gates sees all library users following.
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Indeed, the library user seeking monographic documents appears to be very flexible.
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The library user who looks for books of art criticism is not necessarily going to have an easy task.
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Further discussion of this is made in the chapter on school library user education.
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She is highly computer-literate, and good at explaining the use of the system to other staff and to our Library users .
name
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Repeat the request at a later time or repeat the request with a different start user name .
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Hackers can use electronic eavesdropping to trap user names and unencrypted passwords sent over the network.
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The user name can be up to 28 alphanumeric characters long including spaces.
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The latter is the default and assumed to be the case wherever a user name mapping does not exist.
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If there are more than 25 ascendants, enter the last displayed ascendant in the user name field to reveal the other ascendants.
road
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Better public transport means fewer drivers on the road , less congestion and quicker journeys for professional road users .
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If fitted it has got to work sufficiently well to warn other road users of its approach etc.
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Traffic lights can be reprogrammed to give public transport instant priority over other road users .
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The Treasury makes £36 billion every year out of road users , most of it through fuel taxes.
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Signals are the means by which drivers warn other road users , including pedestrians and cyclists, of their intentions and presence.
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The problem is that arrogance and aggression are often expressed at the expense of other road users .
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He says they had no regard for other road users .
service
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If it does not, all its claims to be the guardian of the citizen and service user fall to nothing.
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Perhaps purchasers or providers elsewhere would not be prepared to devote the necessary resources to involving service users in this way.
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He believes it is vital to be honest with service users .
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I believe it is unrealistic to expect the community care reforms to transform services according to the wishes of service users .
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Most often it is totally unconscious and goes unrecognized by staff and service users .
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But there is a danger that the current reforms will leave untouched fundamental assumptions about the lives and needs of service users .
wheelchair
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Today, wheelchair users are trying to raise awareness of how difficult it is to get around.
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Despite her handicap Dorothy, of Chandlers' Ford, Hants, campaigns for improved access for wheelchair users .
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The track can be used by horse riders. walkers, naturalists, birdwatchers, wheelchair users , cyclists and children.
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Using a blueprint drawn up by student Kate Williams, the group are digging a pond with viewing platforms for wheelchair users .
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Possibilities for wheelchair users wanting to enjoy more challenging routes do exist.
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Trains operating on the TransPennine route have space for a wheelchair user , and specially designed toilet facilities.
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So for wheelchair users it's definitely slower by rail.
■ VERB
allow
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Listings include helpful annotations, which allow the user to gain an idea of the nature of individual publications.
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It will allow users to check out availability, pricing and book a room instantly.
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Microsoft Mail allows users to read, compose, forward or reply to electronic mail messages.
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But the software functions that allow users to browse the internet could possibly be kept with the Windows company.
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This included the Fastport 3000, allowing users to connect shared serial or parallel printers directly on to a Unix TCP/IP network.
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In the future, building dirt lots near the ranch house and allowing users to drive their vehicles in.
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The traversal algorithm also allows users to specify link-type priorities.
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These allow the user to delete and rename files or make a backup copy.
enable
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Instruction is concerned with enabling the user to learn in detail how to carry out computerized information retrieval.
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The technology enables users with one telephone number to gain access to their desktop phone, cellular phone, fax and pager.
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Option 7.3.1 - Install/Deinstall Process Models enables users with process model operations privilege to install and deinstall process models.
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The software enables multiple users to manage the entire network from any point.
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According to founder and president Jim Ready, Xpert enables users to monitor the behaviour of code as its being written.
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AL/1 enables users to analyse and migrate mainframe-based Cobol data to personal computers.
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The partitions are used to combat memory fragmentation and to enable users to configure the size of target systems memory pools.
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It enables users to prototype specific hardware interfaces and also network systems.
give
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The new ScaNet/RemotePC is designed to give ScaNet users remote access from personal computers via a modem.
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This gives the user the opportunity to produce an index to a long document such as a report or a dissertation.
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This gives users and applications transparent access to data, computation, and other resources across collections of multivendor, heterogeneous systems.
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Note that Manager privilege gives the user the highest privileges on the system.
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Each quiz gives the user a number of points.
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In 1996, Internet service providers will help solve the problem, giving users number-free addresses based on their real names.&038;.
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Cooperative claims Production System provides a higher level of security by giving every user a different profile.
let
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It lets users make better user of the desktop, enabling them to group windows that work together into separate individual workspaces.
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Kodak said the latest feature will let users continue to shoot and download pictures continuously.
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It lets developers construct user interfaces, model system resources, create new objects and build communication hooks into other applications.
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Yes, they let users do neat things, but at a cost.
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In addition, Audio Editor lets users create, playback and mail audio files and annotate text files with audio playback.
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PaperPort software creates a graphic image of the scanned item and lets the user edit, annotate and sort the result.
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The SkyCorder stores information for up to 20 jumps; a display screen and buttons let users check information for previous jumps.
offer
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The major benefit of a word processing program is the flexibility it offers the user in amending documents.
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The system offers users the ability to introduce both innovative designs and vibrant colors into plain, gray cement.
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It offers a graphical user interface and uses a simplified data-flow diagramming technique to model the parallel interactions.
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Some programs also offer users a limited ability to decide for themselves which sites to block.
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In the light of this list of users , Anthony offers the following four users' needs: 1 Financial viability.
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Another might trigger a dialog box, offering the user one of several command options.
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Also planned for around that time is a version for Silicon Graphics Inc's system offering users three-dimensional graphics.
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Indeed, some operating systems are geared to handling queues by offering the user a choice of queuing algorithm.
provide
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Unix now provides the user with access based upon the least privileges he or she requires to carry out their tasks.
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Yes, the software provides the user with hundreds of images to move back and forth across 12 background choices.
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When employed in the financial reports it provides external users with some measure of performance.
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Such furnishings, they think, provide status for users of the systems and make them feel more at ease.
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Remote access to the facility will be provided to users wishing to analyse large datasets.
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Good documentation should be able to provide the potential user with a number of answers at a glance.
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Barclays claims that the machines will provide data for 4,000 users .
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These solutions have been successful in providing users with the ability to fire off queries to multiple databases.
require
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It is empty and therefore requires the user to input data.
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This is significant because it means that spontaneous private transactions can occur without requiring individual users to have an established public key.
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First of all, no map can show all the attributes that may conceivably be required by a user .
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To defend against loss or theft, the cards usually require the user to enter a personal identification number as well.
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This type of firewall requires inside or outside users to connect to the trusted applications on the firewall machine before connecting further.
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It is very thorough but requires the user to be prepared to look in depth at each technical area of painting.
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Authentication in e-commerce basically requires the user to prove his or her identity for each requested service.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A new information service will soon be available to library users.
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Computers are sold direct to end users as well as through dealers.
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Drunken drivers are a menace to themselves and other road users.
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one of the heaviest users of fossil fuels in the world
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Part of the increase in price will be passed on to private users.
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Software should be designed to be as accessible as possible to users.
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There is a growing concern about the spread of AIDS among drug users.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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According to founder and president Jim Ready, Xpert enables users to monitor the behaviour of code as its being written.
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First, screening rules are difficult to specify, given the vastly diverse needs of users.
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Some users however may experience temporary visual fatigue or have other concerns.
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The user can now evaluate the package to its full.
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These facilities are sure to impress expert spreadsheet users, especially those with experience of Lotus 123.