{
  "id": "user.role",
  "term": "user",
  "sense": "role",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 7,
  "arena": "user",
  "domain": "emergence",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a person who uses a system",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "people.social",
      "use.application",
      "system.organized"
    ],
    "interaction": "when a person does use a system, a user happen",
    "novel_properties": [
      "active participation",
      "intentional interaction"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "A passenger enters PIN 2468 to access their account at a Wells Fargo ATM in Chicago.",
      "domain": "computing"
    },
    {
      "text": "Marie Curie used a piezoelectric electrometer to measure radiation in her Paris laboratory in 1902.",
      "domain": "science"
    },
    {
      "text": "A New York City subway rider swipes a MetroCard at the turnstile to enter Lexington Avenue station.",
      "domain": "transportation"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "people.social",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "internet.digital",
    "login.digital",
    "phone.electrical"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "user",
    "users"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-user.role"
}