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Hosts; HOSTS; Host (event); Host (disambiguation); Host (album)

Host

·vt To give entertainment to.

II. Host ·noun Any great number or multitude; a throng.

III. Host ·noun An army; a number of men gathered for war.

IV. Host ·vi To lodge at an inn; to take up entertainment.

V. Host ·noun The consecrated wafer, believed to be the body of Christ, which in the Mass is offered as a sacrifice; also, the bread before consecration.

VI. Host ·noun One who receives or entertains another, whether gratuitously or for compensation; one from whom another receives food, lodging, or entertainment; a landlord.

VII. Host ·add. ·noun Any animal or plant affording lodgment or subsistence to a parasitic or commensal organism. Thus a tree is a host of an air plant growing upon it.

host

host¹

¦ noun

1. a person who receives or entertains other people as guests.

the presenter of a television or radio programme.

2. Biology an animal or plant on or in which a parasite or commensal organism lives.

3. the recipient of transplanted tissue or a transplanted organ.

4. a computer which mediates multiple access to databases or provides other services to a network.

5. an area in which particular people or things are found: the reef is host to shoals of fish.

¦ verb act as host at (an event) or for (a television or radio programme).

Origin

ME: from OFr. hoste, from L. hospes, hospit- 'host, guest'.

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host²

¦ noun

1. (a host/hosts of) a large number of.

2. archaic an army.

Origin

ME: from OFr. ost, hoost, from L. hostis 'stranger, enemy' (in med. L. 'army').

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host³

¦ noun (the Host) the bread consecrated in the Eucharist.

Origin

ME: from OFr. hoiste, from L. hostia 'victim'.

host

1. <networking> A computer connected to a network. The term node includes devices such as routers and printers which would not normally be called "hosts". 2. <communications> A computer to which one connects using a terminal emulator. (1995-02-16)