different between bundle vs host

English

Etymology

From Middle English bundel, from Middle Dutch bondel or Old English byndele, byndelle (“a binding; tying; fastening with bands”); both from Proto-Germanic *bundil-, derivative of *bund? (“bundle”). Compare also English bindle.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?nd(?)l/
• Hyphenation: bun?dle
• Rhymes: -?nd?l

Noun

bundle (plural bundles)

1. A group of objects held together by wrapping or tying.
   • 1760, Oliver Goldsmith, On National Concord

     The fable of the rods, which, when united in a bundle, no strength could bend.

2. A package wrapped or tied up for carrying.
3. A group of products or services sold together as a unit.

5. (informal) A large amount, especially of money.

   Synonyms: (informal) mint, (slang) pile, (colloquial) small fortune

6. (biology) A cluster of closely bound muscle or nerve fibres.
7. (linguistics, education) A sequence of two or more words that occur in language with high frequency but are not idiomatic; a chunk, cluster, or lexical bundle.

8. (computing, Mac OS X) A directory containing related resources such as source code; application bundle.
9. A quantity of paper equal to two reams (1000 sheets).
10. (law) A court bundle, the assemblage of documentation prepared for, and referred to during, a court case.
11. (mathematics) Topological space composed of a base space and fibers projected to the base space.

    Meronym: stalk space

Hyponyms

• (computing): native bundle

Coordinate terms

• (quantity of paper): bale, quire, ream

Derived terms

Descendants

• bindle

Translations

See also

• Units of paper quantity on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

• bundle on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

bundle (third-person singular simple present bundles, present participle bundling, simple past and past participle bundled)

1. (transitive) To tie or wrap together into a bundle.
2. (transitive) To hustle; to dispatch something or someone quickly.
   • 1835, Theodore Hook, Gilbert Gurney

     They unmercifully bundled me and my gallant second into our own hackney coach.

3. (intransitive) To prepare for departure; to set off in a hurry or without ceremony; used with away, off, out.
4. (transitive) To dress someone warmly.
5. (intransitive) To dress warmly. Usually bundle up
6. (computing) To sell hardware and software as a single product.
7. (intransitive) To hurry.
8. (slang) Synonym of dogpile: to form a pile of people upon a victim.
9. (transitive) To hastily or clumsily push, put, carry or otherwise send something into a particular place.
   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 7

     Yes, there is death in this business of whaling—a speechlessly quick chaotic bundling of a man into Eternity.
10. (dated, intransitive) To sleep on the same bed without undressing.

    • Van Corlear […] [stopped] occasionally in the villages to eat pumpkin pies, dance at country frolics, and bundle with the Yankee lasses.

    • 1991, Stephen King, Needful Things

      They were on the couch for nearly an hour, then in the shower for she didn't know how long — until the hot water started to fail and drove them out, anyway. Then she took him into her bed, where she lay too exhausted and too content to do anything but bundle.

Derived terms

Related terms

• bundle off
• bundle up

Translations

Anagrams

• unbled

English

Alternative forms

• hoast (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /h??st/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ho?st/
• Rhymes: -??st

Etymology 1

From Middle English hoste, from Old French oste (French: hôte), from Latin hospitem, accusative of hospes (“a host, also a sojourner, visitor, guest; hence, a foreigner, a stranger”), from Proto-Indo-European *g?ostipotis (“master of guests”), from *g?óstis (“stranger, guest, enemy”) and *pótis (“owner, master, host, husband”). Used in English since 13th century. Doublet of guest.

Noun

host (plural hosts, feminine hostess)

1. One which receives or entertains a guest, socially, commercially, or officially.
2. One that provides a facility for an event.
3. A person or organization responsible for running an event.

4. A moderator or master of ceremonies for a performance.

5. (computing, Internet) Any computer attached to a network.
6. (ecology) A cell or organism which harbors another organism or biological entity, usually a parasite.

7. (evolution, genetics) An organism bearing certain genetic material.

8. A paid male companion offering conversation and in some cases sex, as in certain types of bar in Japan.

Hyponyms

• (computing): localhost

Synonyms

• presenter (UK)

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Verb

host (third-person singular simple present hosts, present participle hosting, simple past and past participle hosted)

1. To perform the role of a host.

2. (obsolete, intransitive) To lodge at an inn.
3. (computing, Internet) To run software made available to a remote user or process.
   • 1987 May 7, Selden E. Ball, Jr., Re: Ethernet Terminal Concentrators, comp.protocols.tcp-ip, Usenet

     CMU/TEK TCP/IP software uses an excessive amount of cpu resources for terminal support both outbound, when accessing another system, and inbound, when the local system is hosting a session.

Translations

See also

• compere
• guest
• event
• master of ceremonies

Etymology 2

From Middle English oost, borrowed from Old French ost, oste, hoste, from Latin hostis (“foreign enemy”) (as opposed to inimicus (“personal enemy”)); cognate with etymology 1 through an Indo-European root.

Noun

host (plural hosts)

2. A multitude of people arrayed as an army; used also in religious senses, as: Heavenly host (of angels)
   • 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 3, ch. X, Plugson of Undershot

     Why, Plugson, even thy own host is all in mutiny: Cotton is conquered; but the ‘bare backs’ — are worse covered than ever!

   • 1955, J. R. R. Tolkien, The Return of the King, book 2, chapter 4, The Field of Cormallen

     All about the hosts of Mordor raged.

   • 2001, Carlos Parada, Hesione 2, Greek Mythology Link

     the invading host that had sailed from Hellas in more than one thousand ships was of an unprecedented size.

3. A large number of items; a large inventory.

   The dealer stocks a host of parts for my Model A.

   • 1802, William Wordsworth, I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud

     I wandered lonely as a cloud
     That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
     When all at once I saw a crowd,
     A host, of golden daffodils; […]

   • 1836, The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction

     A short time since, some friends drinking tea one summer evening at their residence near Maidenhead, with all the windows of the drawing-room open, there suddenly burst in a host of small flies, which covered the table and the furniture […]

Derived terms

• heavenly host
• Lord of Hosts

Translations

Etymology 3

From Middle English host, oist, ost, from Old French hoiste, from Latin hostia (“sacrificial victim”). Doublet of hostie.

Noun

host (plural hosts)

1. (Christianity) The consecrated bread or wafer of the Eucharist.

Translations

See also

• hostage

Anagrams

• HOTs, TOSH, Thos., Tosh, hots, oths, shot, tosh

Catalan

Etymology

From Old Occitan òst, from Latin hostem, singular accusative of hostis, from Proto-Italic *hostis, from Proto-Indo-European *g?óstis (“guest, stranger”).

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /??st/

Noun

host f (plural hosts)

1. army, troops

See also

• exèrcit

Czech

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *gost?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??ost]

Noun

host m

1. guest

   Host do domu, B?h do domu. ("A guest into the house, God into the house") — old proverb, meaning: respect should be shown to guests

   Host a ryba t?etí den smrdí. - The guest and the fish smell the third day.

Declension

Related terms

• hostit
• hostitel
• hostina
• hostinec
• nehostinný
• pohostinství

Further reading

• host in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• host in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Dutch

Etymology 1

From English host.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?o?st/.
• Rhymes: -?st

Noun

host m (plural hosts, diminutive hostje n)

1. (computing) host

Derived terms

• hosten

Etymology 2

From hossen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??st/

Verb

host

1. second- and third-person singular present indicative of hossen
2. (archaic) plural imperative of hossen

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

Related to hoste ("to cough").

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hust/
• Rhymes: -ust

Noun

host n (definite singular hostet, indefinite plural host, definite plural hosta or hostene)

1. a single cough expulsion

Usage notes

• Prior to a 2020 spelling revision, this noun was also considered masculine.

Etymology 2

From English host.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /h?ust/
• Rhymes: -?ust

Noun

host m (definite singular hosten, indefinite plural hoster, definite plural hostene)

1. (computing) host

Synonyms

• vertsmaskin

Etymology 3

Verb

host

1. imperative of hoste

References

• “host” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

Related to hosta, hoste ("to cough").

Noun

host n (definite singular hostet, indefinite plural host, definite plural hosta)

1. a single cough expulsion

Etymology 2

From English host.

Noun

host m (definite singular hosten, indefinite plural hostar, definite plural hostane)

1. (computing) host

Synonyms

• vertsmaskin

Etymology 3

Verb

host

1. imperative of hosta and hoste

References

• “host” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English host.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?howst??/

Noun

host m (plural hosts)

1. (networking) host (computer attached to a network)

Slovene

Noun

hóst

1. genitive dual/plural of h??sta

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English host. Doublet of huésped.

Noun

host m or f (plural hosts)

1. (computing, Internet) host (any computer attached to a network)

   Synonym: anfitrión