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host
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)
- One which receives or entertains a guest, socially, commercially, or officially.
- One that provides a facility for an event.
- A person or organization responsible for running an event.
- A moderator or master of ceremonies for a performance.
- (computing, Internet) Any computer attached to a network.
- (ecology) A cell or organism which harbors another organism or biological entity, usually a parasite.
- (evolution, genetics) An organism bearing certain genetic material.
- 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)
- To perform the role of a host.
- (obsolete, intransitive) To lodge at an inn.
- (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.
- 1987 May 7, Selden E. Ball, Jr., Re: Ethernet Terminal Concentrators, comp.protocols.tcp-ip, Usenet
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)
- 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.
- 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 3, ch. X, Plugson of Undershot
- 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; […]
- I wandered lonely as a cloud
- 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)
- (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)
- army, troops
See also
- exèrcit
Czech
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *gost?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [??ost]
Noun
host m
- 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)
- (computing) host
Derived terms
- hosten
Etymology 2
From hossen.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??st/
Verb
host
- second- and third-person singular present indicative of hossen
- (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)
- 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)
- (computing) host
Synonyms
- vertsmaskin
Etymology 3
Verb
host
- 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)
- a single cough expulsion
Etymology 2
From English host.
Noun
host m (definite singular hosten, indefinite plural hostar, definite plural hostane)
- (computing) host
Synonyms
- vertsmaskin
Etymology 3
Verb
host
- 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)
- (networking) host (computer attached to a network)
Slovene
Noun
hóst
- genitive dual/plural of h??sta
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from English host. Doublet of huésped.
Noun
host m or f (plural hosts)
- (computing, Internet) host (any computer attached to a network)
- Synonym: anfitrión
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force
English
Pronunciation
- (General American) enPR: fôrs, IPA(key): /f??s/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /f??s/
- (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: f?rs, IPA(key): /fo(?)?s/
- (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /fo?s/
- Rhymes: -??(?)s
Etymology 1
From Middle English force, fors, forse, from Old French force, from Late Latin or Vulgar Latin *fortia, from neuter plural of Latin fortis (“strong”).
Noun
force (countable and uncountable, plural forces)
- Strength or energy of body or mind; active power; vigour; might; capacity of exercising an influence or producing an effect.
- Power exerted against will or consent; compulsory power; violence; coercion.
- 1591, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, part II
- which now they hold by force, and not by right
- 1591, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, part II
- (countable) Anything that is able to make a substantial change in a person or thing.
- (countable, physics) A physical quantity that denotes ability to push, pull, twist or accelerate a body and which has a direction and is measured in a unit dimensioned in mass × distance/time² (ML/T²): SI: newton (N); CGS: dyne (dyn)
- Something or anything that has the power to produce a physical effect upon something else, such as causing it to move or change shape.
- (countable) A group that aims to attack, control, or constrain.
- 1611, William Shakespeare, Cymbeline
- Is Lucius general of the forces?
- "A fine man, that Dunwody, yonder," commented the young captain, as they parted, and as he turned to his prisoner. "We'll see him on in Washington some day. He is strengthening his forces now against Mr. Benton out there. […]."
- 1611, William Shakespeare, Cymbeline
- (uncountable) The ability to attack, control, or constrain.
- (countable) A magic trick in which the outcome is known to the magician beforehand, especially one involving the apparent free choice of a card by another person.
- (law) Legal validity.
- (law) Either unlawful violence, as in a "forced entry", or lawful compulsion.
- (linguistics, semantics, pragmatics) Ability of an utterance or its element (word, form, prosody, ...) to effect a given meaning.
- (humorous or science fiction, with the, often capitalized) A metaphysical and ubiquitous power from the fictional Star Wars universe created by George Lucas. See usage note. [1977]
- Synonym of police force (“typically with preceding "the"”)
Usage notes
- Adjectives often applied to "force": military, cultural, economic, gravitational, electric, magnetic, strong, weak, positive, negative, attractive, repulsive, good, evil, dark, physical, muscular, spiritual, intellectual, mental, emotional, rotational, tremendous, huge.
- (science fiction): Outside of fiction, the force may be used as an alternative to invoking luck, destiny, or God. For example, the force was with him instead of luck was on his side, or may the force be with you instead of may God be with you.
Hyponyms
Derived terms
- may the Force be with you
- workforce
Related terms
Translations
References
- force on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Etymology 2
From Middle English forcen, from Old French forcer, from Late Latin *forti?re, from Latin fortia.
Verb
force (third-person singular simple present forces, present participle forcing, simple past and past participle forced)
- (transitive) To violate (a woman); to rape. [from 14thc.]
- (obsolete, reflexive, intransitive) To exert oneself, to do one's utmost. [from 14thc.]
- And I pray you for my sake to force yourselff there, that men may speke you worshyp.
- (transitive) To compel (someone or something) to do something. [from 15thc.]
- Captain Edward Carlisle […] felt a curious sensation of helplessness seize upon him as he met her steady gaze, […]; he could not tell what this prisoner might do. He cursed the fate which had assigned such a duty, cursed especially that fate which forced a gallant soldier to meet so superb a woman as this under handicap so hard.
- 2011, Tim Webb & Fiona Harvey, The Guardian, 23 March:
- Housebuilders had warned that the higher costs involved would have forced them to build fewer homes and priced many homebuyers out of the market.
- (transitive) To constrain by force; to overcome the limitations or resistance of. [from 16thc.]
- (transitive) To drive (something) by force, to propel (generally + prepositional phrase or adverb). [from 16thc.]
- It stuck so fast, so deeply buried lay / That scarce the victor forced the steel away.
- Ethelbert […] ordered that none should be forced into religion.
- 2007, The Guardian, 4 November:
- In a groundbreaking move, the Pentagon is compensating servicemen seriously hurt when an American tank convoy forced them off the road.
- (transitive) To cause to occur (despite inertia, resistance etc.); to produce through force. [from 16thc.]
- 2009, "All things to Althingi", The Economist, 23 July:
- The second problem is the economy, the shocking state of which has forced the decision to apply to the EU.
- 2009, "All things to Althingi", The Economist, 23 July:
- (transitive) To forcibly open (a door, lock etc.). [from 17thc.]
- To obtain or win by strength; to take by violence or struggle; specifically, to capture by assault; to storm, as a fortress.
- (transitive, baseball) To create an out by touching a base in advance of a runner who has no base to return to while in possession of a ball which has already touched the ground.
- (whist) To compel (an adversary or partner) to trump a trick by leading a suit that he/she does not hold.
- (archaic) To put in force; to cause to be executed; to make binding; to enforce.
- c. 1613, John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi
- What can the church force more?
- c. 1613, John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi
- (archaic) To provide with forces; to reinforce; to strengthen by soldiers; to man; to garrison.
- (obsolete) To allow the force of; to value; to care for.
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- Imperial unit: foot pound
- metric unit: newton
- coerce: To control by force.
Etymology 3
From Middle English force, forz, fors, from Old Norse fors (“waterfall”), from Proto-Germanic *fursaz (“waterfall”). Cognate with Icelandic foss (“waterfall”), Norwegian foss (“waterfall”), Swedish fors (“waterfall”). Doublet of foss.
Noun
force (plural forces)
- (countable, Northern England) A waterfall or cascade.
- 1778, Thomas West, A Guide to the Lakes in Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancashire
- to see the falls or force of the river Kent
- 1778, Thomas West, A Guide to the Lakes in Cumberland, Westmorland, and Lancashire
Derived terms
- forcefall
Translations
Etymology 4
From Middle English forcen, forsen, a use of force, with confusion of farce (“to stuff”).
Verb
force (third-person singular simple present forces, present participle forcing, simple past and past participle forced)
- To stuff; to lard; to farce.
Derived terms
- forcemeat
Further reading
- force at OneLook Dictionary Search
- force in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- force in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- Cofer, Corfe, corfe
French
Etymology
From Middle French force, from Old French force, from Late Latin or Vulgar Latin *fortia, re-analyzed as a feminine singular from the neuter plural of Latin fortis. Compare Catalan força, Portuguese força, Italian forza, Spanish fuerza.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /f??s/
- Rhymes: -??s
- Homophones: forcent, forces
Noun
force f (plural forces)
- force
- strength
Synonyms
- pouvoir
- puissance
- violence
Derived terms
Adjective
force (invariable)
- (archaic) Many; a lot of; a great quantity of.
Verb
force
- first/third-person singular present indicative of forcer
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive of forcer
- second-person singular imperative of forcer
Further reading
- “force” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Middle French
Etymology
From Old French force.
Noun
force f (plural forces)
- force (physical effort; physical might)
Descendants
- French: force
Old French
Alternative forms
- forche (Picardy, Old Northern French)
- fors
Etymology
From Late Latin or Vulgar Latin *fortia, re-analyzed as a feminine singular from the neuter plural of Latin fortis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?f?r.t?s?/
Noun
force f (oblique plural forces, nominative singular force, nominative plural forces)
- strength; might
Related terms
- esforcer
- esfort
- fort
- forteresce
Descendants
- Middle French: force
- French: force
- Walloon: foice
- ? Middle English: force / fors / forse
- English: force
Portuguese
Verb
force
- first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of forçar
- third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of forçar
- third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of forçar
- third-person singular (você) negative imperative of forçar
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