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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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string
English
Etymology
From Middle English string, streng, strynge, from Old English streng (“string, cord, rope; tackle, rigging; ligament, ligature, sinew; line, lineage”), from Proto-Germanic *strangiz (“string”), from Proto-Indo-European *streng?- (“rope, cord, strand; to tighten”). Cognate with Scots string (“string”), Dutch streng (“cord, strand”), Low German strenge (“strand, cord, rope”), German Strang (“strand, cord, rope”), Danish streng (“string”), Swedish sträng (“string, cord, wire”), Icelandic strengur (“string”), Latvian stringt (“to be tight, wither”), Latin string? (“I tighten”), Ancient Greek ????????????? (strangalóomai, “to strangle”), from ????????? (strangál?, “halter”), Ancient Greek ???????? (strangós, “tied together, entangled, twisted”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /st???/
- Hyphenation: string
- Rhymes: -??
Noun
string (countable and uncountable, plural strings)
- (countable) A long, thin and flexible structure made from threads twisted together.
- Synonyms: cord, rope, line; see also Thesaurus:string
- 1700, Matthew Prior, Carmen Seculare. for the Year 1700
- Round Ormond's knee thou tiest the mystic string.
- (uncountable) Such a structure considered as a substance.
- Synonyms: cord, rope, twine
- (countable) Any similar long, thin and flexible object.
- (music) A length of wire or other material used as vibrating element on a musical instrument.
- (sports) A length of nylon or other material on the head of a racquet.
- (music) A length of wire or other material used as vibrating element on a musical instrument.
- A thread or cord on which a number of objects or parts are strung or arranged in close and orderly succession; hence, a line or series of things arranged on a thread, or as if so arranged.
- a string of islands
- (countable) A cohesive substance taking the form of a string.
- (countable) A series of items or events.
- Synonyms: sequence, series
- 2012, Christoper Zara, Tortured Artists: From Picasso and Monroe to Warhol and Winehouse, the Twisted Secrets of the World's Most Creative Minds, part 1, chapter 1, 27:
- In 1933, disgusted and discouraged after a string of commercial failures, Clara quit the film business forever. She was twenty-six.
- (countable) The members of a sports team or squad regarded as most likely to achieve success. (Perhaps metaphorical as the "strings" that hold the squad together.) Often first string, second string etc.
- (countable) In various games and competitions, a certain number of turns at play, of rounds, etc.
- (collective) A drove of horses, or a group of racehorses kept by one owner or at one stable.
- (countable, programming) An ordered sequence of text characters stored consecutively in memory and capable of being processed as a single entity.
- (music, metonymically, countable) A stringed instrument.
- (music, usually in the plural) The stringed instruments as a section of an orchestra, especially those played by a bow, or the persons playing those instruments.
- Synonym: string section
- (figuratively, in the plural) The conditions and limitations in a contract collectively.
- Synonyms: conditions, provisions
- (countable, physics) The main object of study in string theory, a branch of theoretical physics.
- (slang) Cannabis or marijuana.
- (billiards) Part of the game of billiards, where the order of the play is determined by testing who can get a ball closest to the bottom rail by shooting it onto the end rail.
- (historical, billiards) The buttons strung on a wire by which the score is kept.
- (billiards, by extension) The points made in a game of billiards.
- (billiards, pool) The line from behind and over which the cue ball must be played after being out of play, as by being pocketed or knocked off the table; also called the string line.
- A strip, as of leather, by which the covers of a book are held together.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Milton to this entry?)
- (archaic) A fibre, as of a plant; a little fibrous root.
- (archaic) A nerve or tendon of an animal body.
- The string of his tongue was loosed.
- (shipbuilding) An inside range of ceiling planks, corresponding to the sheer strake on the outside and bolted to it.
- (botany) The tough fibrous substance that unites the valves of the pericarp of leguminous plants.
- (mining) A small, filamentous ramification of a metallic vein.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Ure to this entry?)
- (architecture) A stringcourse.
- (dated, slang) A hoax; a fake story.
- Synonym of stable (“group of prostitutes managed by one pimp”)
- 2006, Steve Niles, Jeff Mariotte, 30 Days of Night: Rumors of the Undead (page 307)
- They were turning tricks, doing drugs, and generally little better off than they had been before, except that they were keeping more of their money. But they seemed lonely, too, without the company of their pimp and the rest of his string.
- 2006, Steve Niles, Jeff Mariotte, 30 Days of Night: Rumors of the Undead (page 307)
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
- Portuguese: estrém
Translations
Verb
string (third-person singular simple present strings, present participle stringing, simple past strung or (obsolete or nonstandard) strang, past participle strung)
- (transitive) To put (items) on a string.
- (transitive) To put strings on (something).
- (intransitive) To form into a string or strings, as a substance which is stretched, or people who are moving along, etc.
- (intransitive, billiards) To drive the ball against the end of the table and back, in order to determine which player is to open the game.
- (birdwatching) To deliberately state that a certain bird is present when it is not; to knowingly mislead other birders about the occurrence of a bird, especially a rarity; to misidentify a common bird as a rare species.
Synonyms
- (put on a string): thread
- (put strings on): lace
Derived terms
- stringer
- stringified
- stringifier
- stringify
Related terms
- string along
- string up
- string out
Translations
Further reading
- string on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- String in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English string.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /str??/
- Hyphenation: string
- Rhymes: -??
Noun
string m (plural strings, diminutive stringetje n)
- (clothing) G-string, thong
- (computing) character string
Synonyms
- (character string): tekenreeks
- (G-string): reetveter
French
Etymology
From English string.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /st?i?/
Noun
string m (plural strings)
- G-string, thong, tanga
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from English string.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /es?t???(i)/, /es?t???(i)/
Noun
string m (plural strings)
- (computing) string (sequence of consecutive text characters)
- Synonyms: cadeia, cadeia de caracteres
Swedish
Etymology
From English string.
Noun
string c
- G-string, thong
Derived terms
- stringkalsong
- stringtrosa
Anagrams
- ringts
Tok Pisin
Etymology
From English string.
Noun
string
- string; cord
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