different between host vs group

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

English

Alternative forms

• groop (non-standard)
• groupe (obsolete)

Etymology

From French groupe (“cluster, group”), from Italian gruppo, groppo (“a knot, heap, group, bag (of money)”), from Vulgar Latin *cruppo, Renaissance Latin grupus, from Proto-Germanic *kruppaz (“lump, round mass, body, crop”), from Proto-Indo-European *grewb- (“to crumple, bend, crawl”). Cognate with German Kropf (“crop, craw, bunch”), Old English cropp, croppa (“cluster, bunch, sprout, flower, berry, ear of corn, crop”), Dutch krop (“craw”), Icelandic kroppr (“hump, bunch”). Doublet of crop and croup.

Pronunciation

• enPR: gro?op, IPA^(key): /??u?p/
• Rhymes: -u?p

Noun

group (plural groups)

1. A number of things or persons being in some relation to one another.

2. (group theory) A set with an associative binary operation, under which there exists an identity element, and such that each element has an inverse.
   • 1977, Roger C. Lyndon, Paul E. Schupp, Combinatorial Group Theory, Springer, page 192,

     Throughout this section, we shall assume the existence of finitely presented groups with unsolvable word problem.

   • 1992, Svetlana Katok, Fuchsian Groups, University of Chicago Press, page 112,

     In this chapter we give some examples of Fuchsian groups. The most interesting and important ones are the so-called "arithmetic" Fuchsian groups, i.e., discrete subgroups of PSL(2,R) obtained by some "arithmetic" operations. One such construction we have already seen: if we choose all matrices of SL(2,R) with integer coefficients, then the corresponding elements of PSL(2,R) form the modular group PSL(2,Z).

   • 2007, Zhong-Qi Ma, Group Theory for Physicists, World Scientific, page 277,

     In Chap. 4 the fundamental concepts on Lie groups have been introduced through the SO(3) group and its covering group SU(2).

3. (geometry, archaic) An effective divisor on a curve.
4. A (usually small) group of people who perform music together.

5. (astronomy) A small number (up to about fifty) of galaxies that are near each other.
6. (chemistry) A column in the periodic table of chemical elements.
7. (chemistry) A functional group.

8. (sociology) A subset of a culture or of a society.
9. (military) An air force formation.
10. (geology) A collection of formations or rock strata.
11. (computing) A number of users with same rights with respect to accession, modification, and execution of files, computers and peripherals.
12. An element of an espresso machine from which hot water pours into the portafilter.
13. (music) A number of eighth, sixteenth, etc., notes joined at the stems; sometimes rather indefinitely applied to any ornament made up of a few short notes.
14. (sports) A set of teams playing each other in the same division, while not during the same period playing any teams that belong to other sets in the division.
15. (business) A commercial organization.

Synonyms

• (number of things or persons being in some relation to each other): collection, set
• (people who perform music together): band, ensemble
• See also Thesaurus:group

Hypernyms

• (in group theory): monoid

Hyponyms

Derived terms

• subgroup

Related terms

Descendants

• ? Gulf Arabic: ?????
• ? Japanese: ???? (gur?pu)
• ? Korean: ?? (geurup)
• ? Tongan: kulupu

Translations

References

• group on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

group (third-person singular simple present groups, present participle grouping, simple past and past participle grouped)

1. (transitive) To put together to form a group.

   group the dogs by hair colour

2. (intransitive) To come together to form a group.

Synonyms

• (put together to form a group): amass, categorise/categorize, classify, collect, collect up, gather, gather together, gather up; see also Thesaurus:round up
• (come together to form a group): assemble, begather, foregather, throng; see also Thesaurus:assemble

Translations

Further reading

• group in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• group in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.