user agent

collocation in English

meaningsofuserandagent

These words are often used together. Click on the links below to explore the meanings. Or,see other collocations withagentoruser.
user
noun[C]
uk
/ˈjuː.zər/us
/ˈjuː.zɚ/
someone who uses a product, machine, ...
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agent
noun[C]
uk
/ˈeɪ.dʒənt/us
/ˈeɪ.dʒənt/
a person who acts for or ...
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(Definition ofuserandagentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofuser agent

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For example, auseragent(software or human) might ask what kind of ontologies a service supports or what kinds of query it will respond to.
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In many cases, auseragentacts as a client in a network protocol used in communications within a clientserver distributed computing system.
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The soft hyphen tells theuseragentwhere a line break can occur.
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This enables web authors to style their content in line with the operating system of theuseragent.
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He's released several open source products, including cmail, the emacs-based mailuseragent, written entirely in emacs lisp.
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It is easier to see how an auraluseragentshould interpret the latter two elements.
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The last hop from the proxy of the target domain to theuseragenthas to be secured according to local policies.
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These custom components or widgets do not provide a way to convey semantic information to theuseragent.
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The appearance of a web page as rendered by auseragentshould be determined independently by style rules.
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Web mapping usually involves a web browser or otheruseragentcapable of client-server interactions.
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These specifications cause theuseragentto use a particular proxy server or to connect directly.
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There are services and platforms which present different versions of a blog administration interface based onuseragent.
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To keep the binding active, theuseragentwill have to regularly refresh it.
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It is the preferred way to redirect auseragentto a different page.
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It does of course include other sorts of webuseragent, such as search engine web crawlers, automatic news-feed retrievers etc.
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The plain hyphen should be interpreted by auseragentas just another character.
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If auseragentcan not serialise the parameter, then the parameter should be ignored.
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