Definition of Host

Babylon English
host
n. one who receives guests; living creature on which a parasite lives; large number, multitude (of people or things); computer which acts as a server for other computers
v. act as master of ceremonies; receive guests into one's home; throw a party

Host
n. consecrated bread used during Communion (Christianity)

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Host Definition from Computer & Internet Dictionaries & Glossaries

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host
1. <networking> A computer connected to a network.
The term node includes devices such as routers and printers which would not normally be called "hosts".
2. A computer to which one connects using a terminal emulator.
(1995-02-16)

A Glossary of Internet & PC Terminology
Host
A Computer that provides a particular service to a user. This includes Information or communications.

WebGuest Web Glossary
Host
The server  on which a Web site is stored.
Hosting companies store Web sites of their customers on powerful Web servers (with fast, permanent connections to the Internet  ).

Jensen's Technology Glossary
Host
A computer acting as an information or communications server.

Internet Glossary
Host
Any computer on a network that is a repository for services available to other computers on the network. It is quite common to have one host machine provide several services, such as WWW and USENET.

Panda Software Glossary
Host
This refers to any computer that acts as a source of information.

Multimedia Glossary
Host
A computer that acts as a file server. Users at remote computers (i.e. client computers) are allowed to access information that's stored on the server, or host computer. See client.

Internetworking Terms
host
A computer that allows users to communicate with other host computers on a network. Individual users communicate by using application programs, such as electronic mail, Telnet and FTP. [Source: NNSC]

INTERNET TERMS&ACRONYMSV1.0
HOST
You usually connect to a host computer whenever you use the internet.Host address is the address of a host computer on the Internet.Hosts allow users on client machines to connect and share files or transfer information.

The Internet Dictionary
host
A computer system that is the source of network services; also the site where you can hold an interactive session.

Glossary of Computer and Internet Terms
Host
This is a computer that acts as a server for other computers on the network. It can be a web server, an e-mail server, an FTP server, etc. For instance, a web host is what provides the content of web pages to the computers that access it. It is also known as the mother computer. Well, not really, I just made that up.


Host Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Host
(v. t.)
To give entertainment to.
  
(v. i.)
To lodge at an inn; to take up entertainment.
  
(n.)
The consecrated wafer, believed to be the body of Christ, which in the Mass is offered as a sacrifice; also, the bread before consecration.
  
(n.)
One who receives or entertains another, whether gratuitously or for compensation; one from whom another receives food, lodging, or entertainment; a landlord.
  
(n.)
Any great number or multitude; a throng.
  
(n.)
An army; a number of men gathered for war.
  

WordNet 2.0
Host

Noun
1. a technical name for the bread used in the service of Mass or Holy Communion
(hypernym) bread, breadstuff, staff of life


host

Noun
1. a person who invites guests to a social event (such as a party in his or her own home) and who is responsible for them while they are there
(hypernym) adult, grownup
(hyponym) hostess
2. a vast multitude
(synonym) horde, legion
(hypernym) multitude, throng, concourse
3. an animal or plant that nourishes and supports a parasite; the host does not benefit and is often harmed by the association
(antonym) parasite
(hypernym) organism, being
(hyponym) intermediate host
4. a person who acts as host at formal occasions (makes an introductory speech and introduces other speakers)
(synonym) master of ceremonies, emcee
(hypernym) entertainer
(hyponym) compere
5. archaic terms for army
(synonym) legion
(hypernym) army, regular army, ground forces
(hyponym) Roman Legion
6. any organization that provides resources and facilities for a function or event; "Atlanta was chosen to be host for the Olympic Games"
(hypernym) organization, organisation
7. (medicine) recipient of transplanted tissue or organ from a donor
(hypernym) recipient, receiver
(classification) medicine, medical specialty
8. the owner or manager of an inn
(synonym) innkeeper, boniface
(hypernym) patron
(hyponym) hostess
9. (computer science) a computer that provides client stations with access to files and printers as shared resources to a computer network
(synonym) server
(hypernym) computer, computing machine, computing device, data processor, electronic computer, information processing system
(part-holonym) computer network
(classification) computer science, computing

Verb
1. be the host of or for; "We hosted 4 couples last night"
(hypernym) entertain
(hyponym) feast, banquet, junket
(derivation) innkeeper, boniface

Anagram
host
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hEnglish - advanced version
host

host
\host\, n. (biol.) any animal or plant affording lodgment or subsistence to a parasitic or commensal organism. thus a tree is a host of an air plant growing upon it.
host
\host\, n. [oe. host, ost, of. hoste, oste, f. hôte, from l. hospes a stranger who is treated as a guest, he who treats another as his guest, a hostl prob. fr. hostis stranger, enemy (akin to e. guest a visitor) + potis able; akin to skr. pati master, lord. see host an army, possible, and cf. hospitable, hotel.] one who receives or entertains another, whether gratuitously or for compensation; one from whom another receives food, lodging, or entertainment; a landlord. "fair host and earl." time is like a fashionable host, that slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand.
host
\host\ (hōst), n. [ll. hostia sacrifice, victim, from hostire to strike.] (r. c. ch.) the consecrated wafer, believed to be the body of christ, which in the mass is offered as a sacrifice; also, the bread before consecration.
note: in the latin vulgate the word was applied to the savior as being an offering for the sins of men.
host
\host\, n. [oe. host, ost, of. host, ost, fr. l. hostis enemy, ll., army. see guest, and cf. host a landlord.]
1. an army; a number of men gathered for war. a host so great as covered all the field.
2. any great number or multitude; a throng. and suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising god. i. 13. all at once i saw a crowd, a host, of golden daffodils.
host
\host\, v. t. to give entertainment to. [obs.]
host
\host\, v. i. to lodge at an inn; to take up entertainment. [obs.] "where you shall host."
host
n
1. a person who invites guests to a social event (such as a party in his or her own home) and who is responsible for them while they are there
2. a vast multitude [syn: horde, legion]


3. an animal or plant that nourishes and supports a parasite; the host does not benefit and is often harmed by the association [ant: parasite]
4. a person who acts as host at formal occasions (makes an introductory speech and introduces other speakers) [syn: master of ceremonies , emcee]


5. archaic terms for army [syn: legion]


6. any organization that provides resources and facilities for a function or event; "atlanta was chosen to be host for the olympic games"
7. (medicine) recipient of transplanted tissue or organ from a donor
8. the owner or manager of an inn [syn: innkeeper]


9. a technical name for the bread used in the service of mass or holy communion [syn: host]


10. (computer science) a computer that provides client stations with access to files and printers as shared resources to a computer network [syn: server]
v : be the host of or for; "we hosted 4 couples last night"

host
an entertainer (rom. 16:23); a tavern-keeper, the keeper of a caravansary (luke 10:35). in warfare, a troop or military force. this consisted at first only of infantry. solomon afterwards added cavalry (1 kings 4:26; 10:26). every male israelite from twenty to fifty years of age was bound by the law to bear arms when necessary (num. 1:3; 26:2; 2 chr. 25:5). saul was the first to form a standing army (1 sam. 13:2; 24:2). this example was followed by david (1 chr. 27:1), and solomon (1 kings 4:26), and by the kings of israel and judah (2 chr. 17:14; 26:11; 2 kings 11:4, etc.).


English Phonetics

JM Welsh <=> English Dictionary
Arianllu
Arianllu = v. mercenary host

Lleng
Lleng = n. a legion; a host

Llu
Llu = n. a throng; a host

Myntai
Myntai = n. multitude, host

Nifer
Nifer = n. a number; a host

Torf
Torf = n. a crowd; a troop; a host, a multitude

Tormaint
Tormaint = n. surrounding host

Tyrfa
Tyrfa = n. a multitude, a host


Host Definition from Society & Culture Dictionaries & Glossaries

EPA Terms of Environment
Host
1. In genetics, the organism, typically a bacterium, into which a gene from another organism is transplanted. 2. In medicine, an animal infected or parasitized by another organism.

Environmental Engineering (English ver.)
Host
1. In genetics, the organism, typically a bacterium, into which a gene from another organism is transplanted. 2. In medicine, an animal infected or parasitized by another organism.


Host Definition from Religion & Spirituality Dictionaries & Glossaries

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Angel
Angel(s) [from Greek angelos messenger, envoy, announcer] In the Old Testament, used to translate the Hebrew mal'ach (messenger); in Christian, Jewish, Moslem, and some other theologies, either a messenger of God or one of various hierarchies of celestial beings, the idea of a guardian angel also being familiar. However, the idea of hosts of formative powers, rectores mundi, or other beings between divinity and man, serving as intermediaries or means of communication between man and high spiritual entities has largely vanished from popular Christianity, though Angels, Principalities, and Powers are mentioned by Paul, and the archangel Michael by Jude; while the influence of the Gnostics, Neoplatonists, and Jews on early Christianity gives a wider meaning to the term.
Angels, then, are members of numerous hierarchies of celestial powers, from the septenary formative host that emanates from the formative Third Logos down to the presiding genius or spirit of an atom, acting as intermediaries or envoys between the divine and the human or terrestrial.

Bread and Wine
Bread and Wine "The outward and visible signs of an inward and spiritual grace," bread and wine stand at once for the actual elements used in initiation ceremonies and for the attainments of which they are symbolic. Taking the Bacchic Mysteries as an example, wine was given as the blood of the grape and of Bacchus, blood signifying life, and Bacchus representing the mystic Logos which "was made flesh." So the whole rite means the imparting to the candidate of the divine life by conscious union of his lower self with the god within -- a union brought about by the self-devised efforts of the lower self. In the same way, bread or grain symbolized the intellectual aspect of the attainment, intellect being the "body" of the spiritual influx.
The Christian sacrament was adopted from the pagan rite. The Protestant Churches administer the sacrament in both bread and wine as the symbol of a divine grace received by the devout participant. The Catholic Church teaches that the sacred elements are actually transubstantiated by miraculous means into the blood and body of Christ, denying the cup or the wine to the laity, and regarding the rite as propitiatory for the sins of the participants and of mankind in general. The old pagan rite contained the idea that partaking of the wine meant allying oneself with the vital energy of the spiritual divinity within the neophyte, and the partaking of the bread was symbolic of a similar union of the neophyte's mentality with the cosmic mind for which the bread stood. See also SOMA ; Wine

Dhyani-Chohans
Dhyani-Chohans (Sanskrit-Tibetan) [from Sanskrit dhyani contemplation + Tibetan chohan lord] Lords of meditation. In theosophical literature, dhyani-buddhas are the intellectual architects, the higher and more spiritual beings of the god-world. Dhyani-chohans, as a generalizing term, includes both the higher classes which take a self-conscious, active part in the architectural ideation of the universe, and the lower classes, some of which are self-conscious, but in their lower representations progressively less on on a descending scale. The lowest of these builders are little more than merely conscious or semi-conscious beings following almost servilely the ideation of the cosmic spirit transmitted to them by the higher class of the architects.
Dhyani-chohan is likewise synonymous in one sense with the Sanskrit manu. The seven principal classes of dhyani-chohans are intimately connected, each to each, respectively, with the seven sacred planets of our solar system, and likewise with the globes of the earth planetary chain. Furthermore, there is a class of dhyani-chohans at the head of every department of nature in our solar system. These dhyani-chohans, as the summit of the Hierarchy of Light, imbody in themselves as individuals the ideation of the cosmic Logos, thus forming the laws according to which nature exists and works. These laws, therefore, are really the automatic spiritual activities of the highest classes of the dhyani-chohans.
to be continue "Dhyani-chohans2 "

Hierarchies
Hierarchies [from Greek hieros sacred + archein to rule] Primarily the field of influence of a ruler or hierarch of a body of beings -- divine, human, or otherwise -- organically disposed in serial grades or ranks; and secondarily, the power or post of a hierarch or ruler in sacred rites, copied after the cosmic pattern. In theosophy both meanings blend. Hierarchies, or the interpenetrating of beings, is a key teaching regarding the structure and operation of the universe. This applies not only to the entities comprising a universe but to all its planes and spheres, for these, as well as the entities therein, interblend and interlock in an endless series, one group linking to its superior or inferior in evolutionary grade, in its turn being the link to the ascending or descending group: thus everything exists in and because of everything else. The essential nature or hyparxis of the hierarchy flows forth from the hierarch, and is delegated in proportionate lower degrees to inferior members of the hierarchy, so that all is vitally and organically connected. The hierarchical system is inherent potentially in the cosmic germ or seed from which the entire manifested universe springs; and thus the hierarchical system pervades the manifested universe throughout in all its parts from the highest to the lowest.
to be continue "Hierarchies2 "

Easton's Bible Dictionary
Host
an entertainer (Rom. 16:23); a tavern-keeper, the keeper of a caravansary (Luke 10:35). In warfare, a troop or military force. This consisted at first only of infantry. Solomon afterwards added cavalry (1 Kings 4:26; 10:26). Every male Israelite from twenty to fifty years of age was bound by the law to bear arms when necessary (Num. 1:3; 26:2; 2 Chr. 25:5). Saul was the first to form a standing army (1 Sam. 13:2; 24:2). This example was followed by David (1 Chr. 27:1), and Solomon (1 Kings 4:26), and by the kings of Israel and Judah (2 Chr. 17:14; 26:11; 2 Kings 11:4, etc.).


Host Definition from Science & Technology Dictionaries & Glossaries

Bioglossary
Host
Description: Host shall mean an organism in which the genetic material is altered by modification of a part of its own genetic material and/or insertion of foreign genetic material.
Source: UNEP International Technical Guidelines for Safety in Biotechnology

ETSI and 3GPP
HOST
HOST computer

Telecommunication Standard Terms
host
1. In packet- and message-switching communications networks, the collection of hardware and software that makes use of packet or message switching to support user-to-user, i.e., end-to-end, communications, interprocess communications, and distributed data processing. [From Weik '89] 2. Synonym host computer.

Agricultural Glossary/yigini2004
Host
A living plant on which a parasite develops

Technical English by wpv
Host
The primary or controlling computer in a multiple part system.

Physical Geography Terms and Meanings
Host
Organism that develops disease from a pathogen or is being feed on by a parasite.

Biological Control
Host
The organism in or on which a parasitoid lives; a plant on which an insect feeds.

Glossary of Entomology and Crop Protection
Host
The plant on which an insect feeds. The organism in or on which a parasite lives.


Host Definition from Medicine Dictionaries & Glossaries

Aids Glossary
host
a cell or organism within which a parasitic organism lives.

Glossary of HIV/AIDS-Related Terms
HOST
A plant or animal harboring another organism.

Glossary of Epidemiology Terms
HOST.
A person or other living organism that can be infected by an infectious agent under natural conditions.

HIV Vaccine Glossary
host
a plant or animal harboring another organism.


Host Definition from Arts & Humanities Dictionaries & Glossaries

English-Latin Online Dictionary
host
hospes


Host Definition from Entertainment & Music Dictionaries & Glossaries

English to Federation-Standard Golic Vulcan
Host (n.)
kasu


Host Definition from Business & Finance Dictionaries & Glossaries

Internet PR glossary
host
A single computer connected to the Internet.

Company Info: Ticker, Name, Description
HOST
Arlington Hospitality, Inc
Exchange: Nasdaq
Manages hotels and motels; Develops, constructs, and renovates new and existing hotels/motels; And provides hotel personnel leasing.

CAFE
Host America Corporation
Exchange: Nasdaq
Develops, markets and operates contract food service operation for business dining, universities, colleges, and public school cafeterias.

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Host Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries

Wikipedia English - The Free Encyclopedia
Host
Host or hosts (feminine hostess) may refer to one of the following.

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