different between client vs visitor

English

Etymology

From Middle English client, from Anglo-Norman clyent, Old French client, from Latin cli?ns, according to some, an alteration of clu?ns, from clu?re (“to be called”), or more likely from cl?n?re (“to lean”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?kl???nt/
• IPA^(key): /?kla?.?nt/
• Hyphenation: cli?ent
• Rhymes: -a??nt

Noun

client (plural clients)

1. A customer, a buyer or receiver of goods or services.
2. (computing) The role of a computer application or system that requests and/or consumes the services provided by another having the role of server.
3. A person who receives help or services from a professional such as a lawyer or accountant.
4. (law) A person who employs or retains an attorney to represent him or her in any legal matter, or one who merely divulges confidential matters to an attorney while pursuing professional assistance without subsequently retaining the attorney.
5. Short for client state.
   • 1989, Edward A. Kolodziej, ?Roger E. Kanet, Limits of Soviet Power (page 95)

     A third preliminary comment deals explicitly with the relations between clients and superpowers.

Synonyms

• (customer): buyer, customer, patron, purchaser

Antonyms

• (computing): server

Hyponyms

Holonyms

• (customer): clientele

Derived terms

Related terms

• clientele
• climate
• cline

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ?????? (kuraianto)

Translations

See also

• client on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• server

Anagrams

• lectin, lentic

Catalan

Etymology

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Noun

client f (plural clients)

1. client, customer

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English client.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kl?i?.?nt/
• Hyphenation: cli?ent

Noun

client m (plural clients)

1. (computing) client

Usage notes

Not to be confused with cliënt.

French

Etymology

From Latin cli?ns.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kli.j??/

Noun

client m (plural clients, feminine cliente)

1. customer; client (one who purchases or receives a product or service)

Derived terms

• à la tête du client
• le client a toujours raison
• le client est roi

Further reading

• “client” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Lombard

Etymology

From Latin cli?ns.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kli??nt/

Noun

client m (plural clientj, feminine clienta, plural feminine cliente or clientj)

1. client, customer
2. (Western orthographies) Alternative spelling of plural clientj
3. Alternative form of feminine plural cliente

English

Alternative forms

• visitour (obsolete)
• visiter (archaic)

Etymology

Partly from Middle English visiter, visitere, equivalent to visit +? -er; and partly from Middle English visitour, from Anglo-Norman visitour, from Old French visetëor.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?v?z?t?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?v?z?t?/
• Hyphenation: vis?it?or
• Rhymes: -?z?t?(?)

Noun

visitor (plural visitors)

1. Someone who visits someone else; someone staying as a guest.
2. Someone who pays a visit to a specific place or event; a sightseer or tourist.
   • 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, The House Behind the Cedars, Chapter I,

     Warwick observed, as they passed through the respectable quarter, that few people who met the girl greeted her, and that some others whom she passed at gates or doorways gave her no sign of recognition; from which he inferred that she was possibly a visitor in the town and not well acquainted.

3. (sports, usually in the plural) Someone, or a team, that is playing away from home.
4. A person authorized to visit an institution to see that it is being managed properly.
5. (ufology) An extraterrestrial being on Earth for any reason.
   • 1979, Chris Boyce, Extraterrestrial Encounter: a Personal Perspective, Chartwell Books, page 184:

     5: Of course there is always the remote (I hope) possibility that instant panic will prompt us to send a hailstorm of nuclear warheads out upon the visitor.

   • 2001, Donald Goldsmith, Tobias C. Owen, The Search for Life in the Universe, University Science Books, page 511:

     When we ask what evidence does in fact exist of extraterrestrial sojourns on our planet, we can start with what would surely be the best evidence of all: an actual visitor, or group of visitors, visible to crowds of people and ready for photo opportunities, television interviews, handshakes, polite conversation, and dancing.

   • 2004, Carol Schwartz Ellis, Sean Redmond (editor), With Eyes Uplifted: Space Aliens as Sky Gods in Liquid Metal: The Science Fiction Film Reader, Wallflower Press, page 145:

     The visitor in Man Facing South-east claims pure altruism; Rantes (Hugo Soto) wants to alleviate the suffering of the poor and helpless.

   • 2007, Frank G. Wilkinson, The Golden Age of Flying Saucers: Classic UFO Sightings, Saucer Crashes and Extraterrestrial Contact Encounters, Lulu.com, page 37:

     The tower radioed the flight leader, Captain Thomas F. Mantell, Jr., and requested that he engage and attempt to identify the strange visitor.

6. An object which lands or passes by Earth or its orbit.
   • 1869, James Merrill Safford, Geology of Tennessee, S. C. Mercer, page 520:

     Within a few months, another small meteoric mass has been added to the list of those extra-terrestrial bodies which have fallen within the limits of Tennessee. This recent visitor is a stone, weighing, when first obtained, three pounds.

   • 1977, John Philip Cohane, Paradox: the Case for the Extraterrestrial Origin of Man, Crown Publishers, page 154:

     This satellite, they suspect, is a visitor sent by the “superior beings” of a community of other stars within our Milky Way galaxy.

   • 2005, J. Douglas Kenyon, Forbidden History: Prehistoric Technologies, Extraterrestrial Intervention, And The Suppressed Origins Of Civilization, Inner Traditions * Bear & Company, page 64:

     Though Clube and Napier’s cometary visitor was not a planet, the story is surprisingly close to that of Worlds in Collision.

7. (Britain) A head or overseer of an institution such as a college (in which case, equivalent to the university's chancellor) or cathedral or hospital, who resolves disputes, gives ceremonial speeches, etc.
8. (software engineering) The object in the visitor pattern that performs an operation on the elements of a structure one by one.

Derived terms

• visitorship

Translations

Anagrams

• ivorist

Latin

Verb

v?sitor

1. first-person singular present passive indicative of v?sit?