What is "host"

Host \Host\ (h[=o]st), n. [LL. hostia sacrifice, victim, from hostire to strike.] (R. C. Ch.) The consecrated wafer, believed to be the body of Christ, which in the Mass is offered as a sacrifice; also, the bread before consecration.

Note: In the Latin Vulgate the word was applied to the Savior as being an offering for the sins of men.

Host \Host\, v. t. To give entertainment to. [Obs.]
--Spenser.

Host \Host\ (h[=o]st), n. [OE. host, ost, OF. host, ost, fr. L. hostis enemy, LL., army. See Guest, and cf. Host a landlord.]

1. An army; a number of men gathered for war.

   A host so great as covered all the field.
   --Dryden.

2. Any great number or multitude; a throng.

   And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God.
   --Luke ii. 1

3. All at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils.
   --Wordsworth.

Host \Host\, v. i. To lodge at an inn; to take up entertainment. [Obs.] ``Where you shall host.''
--Shak.

Host \Host\ (h[=o]st), n. [OE. host, ost, OF. hoste, oste, F. h[^o]te, from L. hospes a stranger who is treated as a guest, he who treats another as his guest, a hostl prob. fr. hostis stranger, enemy (akin to E. guest a visitor) + potis able; akin to Skr. pati master, lord. See Host an army, Possible, and cf. Hospitable, Hotel.]

1. One who receives or entertains another, whether gratuitously or for compensation; one from whom another receives food, lodging, or entertainment; a landlord.
   --Chaucer. ``Fair host and Earl.''
   --Tennyson.

   Time is like a fashionable host, That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand.
   --Shak.

2. (Biol.) 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.

"person who receives guests," late 13c., from Old French hoste "guest, host, hostess, landlord" (12c., Modern French hôte), from Latin hospitem (nominative hospes) "guest, host," literally "lord of strangers," from PIE *ghostis- "stranger" (cognates: Old Church Slavonic gosti "guest, friend," gospodi "lord, master;" see guest). The biological sense of "animal or plant having a parasite" is from 1857.

"multitude" mid-13c., from Old French host "army" (10c.), from Medieval Latin hostis "army, war-like expedition," from Latin hostis "enemy, foreigner, stranger," from the same root as host (n.1). Replaced Old English here, and in turn has been largely superseded by army. The generalized meaning of "large number" is first attested 1610s.

"body of Christ, consecrated bread," c.1300, from Latin hostia "sacrifice," also "the animal sacrificed," applied in Church Latin to Christ; probably ultimately related to host (n.1) in its root sense of "stranger, enemy."

"to serve as a host," early 15c., from host (n.1). Related: Hosted; hosting.

Etymology 1 n. 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 (context computing Internet English) A server#English-computer providing services in a network. 6 (context computing Internet English) Any computer attached to a network. 7 (context biology English) A cell or organism which harbors another organism or biological entity, usually a parasite. vb. To perform the role of a host. Etymology 2

n. 1 A multitude of people arrayed as an army; used also in religious senses, as: ''Heavenly host (of angels)'' 2 A large number of items; a large inventory. Etymology 3

n. (context Catholicism English) The consecrated bread or wafer of the Eucharist.

1. n. a person who invites guests to a social event (such as a party in his or her own home) and who is responsible for them while they are there

2. a vast multitude [syn: horde, legion]

3. an animal or plant that nourishes and supports a parasite; the host does not benefit and is often harmed by the association [ant: parasite]

4. a person who acts as host at formal occasions (makes an introductory speech and introduces other speakers) [syn: master of ceremonies, emcee]

5. archaic terms for army [syn: legion]

6. any organization that provides resources and facilities for a function or event; "Atlanta was chosen to be host for the Olympic Games"

7. (medicine) recipient of transplanted tissue or organ from a donor

8. the owner or manager of an inn [syn: innkeeper, boniface]

9. a technical name for the bread used in the service of Mass or Holy Communion

10. (computer science) a computer that provides client stations with access to files and printers as shared resources to a computer network [syn: server]

11. v. be the host of or for; "We hosted 4 couples last night"

Host is the second studio album by Critters Buggin of Seattle, Washington and was released in 1997. It was recorded December 18–20 at Bad Animals and December 21–23 live at OK Hotel 1995. Originally released by Loosegroove, Host was reissued by Kufala Recordings in 2004.

host is a simple utility for performing Domain Name System lookups. It was developed by the Internet Systems Consortium (ISC), and is released under the ISC license, a permissive free software license.

The similar dig utility interrogates DNS servers directly for troubleshooting and system administration purposes.

"Host" is a song by British indie rock band The Crocketts. Credited to Davey MacManus and The Crocketts and produced by Charlie Francis, "Host" was featured on the band's 2000 second album The Great Brain Robbery, and released as its first single on 3 April 2000.

Host (masculine) and hostess (feminine) most often refer to a person responsible for guests at an event or providing hospitality during it, or to an event's presenter or master or mistress of ceremonies. Host or hosts may also refer to:

• Host (biology), an organism harboring another organism or organisms on or in itself
• Sacramental bread, called the host or hostia, used in Christian liturgy
• Host (psychology), personality as emphasized in treating dissociative identity disorder
• Host (radio), the presenter or announcer on a radio show
• Talk show host, a presenter of a TV or radio talk show
• the Maître d'hôtel (Maître d') or head waiter of a restaurant or hotel

In biology, a host is an organism that harbors a parasitic, a mutual, or a commensal symbiont, typically providing nourishment and shelter. Examples include animals playing host to '' parasitic'' worms (e.g. nematodes), cells harbouring a parasitic virus, a bean plant hosting mutualistic (helpful) nitrogen-fixing bacteria. More specifically in botany, a host plant supplies food resources and acts as a substrate for commensalist insects or other fauna.

Guest is the generic term used for parasites, mutualists and commensals.

In psychology and mental health, a host is the most important (to therapeutic goals) mental entity in someone who has dissociative identity disorder (formerly known as multiple personality disorder). Often this is thought to be the root of the person's psyche, or at least a key figure for completion of therapy, whether or not it has integration as a goal.

People suffering from this disorder, or who believe themselves to contain multiple mental or spiritual entities , often use the term "host" in reference to the entirety of the body and all of the entities contained therein. This usage of the term denotes that the singular physical entity in question claims many internal mental residents; no importance to one entity over the rest is implied. Dissociative Identify disorder (DID) frequently seen in hosts. “A real loss of contact with the objective world gives the observer a specific impression of Queerness --- the remainders of emotions or the substitutes for emotion usually refer to rage and aggressiveness.” See Otto Fenichel 1946 Schizophrenia.

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A network host is a computer or other device connected to a computer network. A network host may offer information resources, services, and applications to users or other nodes on the network. A network host is a network node that is assigned a network layer host address.

Computers participating in networks that use the Internet Protocol Suite may also be called IP hosts. Specifically, computers participating in the Internet are called Internet hosts, sometimes Internet nodes. Internet hosts and other IP hosts have one or more IP addresses assigned to their network interfaces. The addresses are configured either manually by an administrator, automatically at start-up by means of the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP), or by stateless address autoconfiguration methods.

Every network host is a physical network node (i.e. a network device), but not every physical network node is a host. Network devices such as modems, hubs and network switches are not assigned host addresses (except sometimes for administrative purposes), and are consequently not considered to be network hosts. Devices such as network printers and hardware routers have IP addresses, but since they are not general-purpose computers, they are sometimes not considered to be hosts.

Network hosts that participate in applications that use the client-server model of computing, are classified as server or client systems. Network hosts may also function as nodes in peer-to-peer applications, in which all nodes share and consume resources in an equipotent manner.

Host is the seventh studio album recorded by British band Paradise Lost. The singles "So Much Is Lost" and "Permanent Solution" both have music videos released. Due to an injury, Gregor Mackintosh often played keyboards instead of guitar while touring the album with his guitar technician playing his guitar parts.

The album saw the band moving further away from their previous metal sound to something more akin to a melancholy style of synthpop incorporating downtempo, leftfield, and trance electronic styles. Songs were constructed primarily of programmed drums and synthesizer melodies, with simple, rock-style guitar added for choruses. Vocalist Nick Holmes resolved to simple melodies with his clean singing style, often doubled and harmonized; the resultant material resembled crossover acts like Psykosonik. Holmes commented on this album in 2007, stating: