Crossword clues for server
server
- Waitress, e.g.
- Networking aid
- (computer science) a computer that provides client stations with access to files and printers as shared resources to a computer network
- Tea cart
- Tray
- Acolyte or credenza
- Carhop, e.g.
- Computer allowing access to the network
- Tennis player's scoop?
- Diner employee
- Restaurant employee
- Waitress, e.g
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Server \Serv"er\, n.
One who serves.
A tray for dishes; a salver.
--Randolph.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., agent noun from serve (v.). Computer sense by 1992.
Wiktionary
n. 1 One who serves; a waitress or waiter. 2 A tray for dishes; a salver. 3 (context computing English) A program which provides services to other programs or users, either in the same computer or over a computer network. 4 (senseid en computer providing services)(context computing English) A computer dedicated to running such programs.
WordNet
n. a person whose occupation is to serve at table (as in a restaurant) [syn: waiter]
(court games) the player who serves to start a point
(computer science) a computer that provides client stations with access to files and printers as shared resources to a computer network [syn: host]
utensil used in serving food or drink
Wikipedia
In computing, a server is a computer program or a device that provides functionality for other programs or devices, called " clients". This architecture is called the client–server model, and a single overall computation is distributed across multiple processes or devices. Servers can provide various functionalities, often called "services", such as sharing data or resources among multiple clients, or performing computation for a client. A single server can serve multiple clients, and a single client can use multiple servers. A client process may run on the same device or may connect over a network to a server on a different device. Typical servers are database servers, file servers, mail servers, print servers, web servers, game servers, and application servers.
Client–server systems are today most frequently implemented by (and often identified with) the request–response model: a client sends a request to the server, which performs some action and sends a response back to the client, typically with a result or acknowledgement. Designating a computer as "server-class hardware" implies that it is specialized for running servers on it. This often implies that it is more powerful and reliable than standard personal computers, but alternatively, large computing clusters may be composed of many relatively simple, replaceable server components.
Server may refer to:
Usage examples of "server".
He connected and tested the DSL connection he had arranged with the phone company, and then he set up a multistage connection to a server at CIA headquarters at Langley, Virginia.
Sue Sampel had suspected: text messages that had languished in the servers of the senior scientists who had gone to Cancun for the annual conference.
In addition to being a TG bulletin board, Cross-Connection is also an Internet server for those wishing to cruise the transgendered boards worldwide.
Beyond the lobsters, the cat finds an anonymous eternity server: distributed file storage, unerasable, full of secrets and lies that nobody can afford to suppress.
Beyond the distant lobsters, the cat pings an anonymous distributed network server peer-to-peer file storage spread holographically across a million hosts, unerasable, full of secrets and lies that nobody can afford to suppress.
Consequently it seems unfitting for a priest to say mass with only a single server present.
The unmated servers live in several large domes, and each has his or her own chamber.
No server was in sight, just a pasty-faced, heavyset, white-aproned woman wearing a blue bandana over her hair cutting vegetables in the kitchen.
Once inside the cybercafe and seated at a computer, she would log on to a server using her new free Internet account.
I patched through a quick call to the satellite server, asking for an immediate downlink download.
The salver, vegetable dishes, servers and gravy boat on the sideboard were all electroplated nickel silver.
The waiter came then, with orders of lasagne and fettucine con polio sprinkled with pine nuts, and they changed the subject while the server fussed with plates.
Makes you overdependent on encryption, for one thing, and on the goodwill of the server owners, for another.
As she searched she began mentally setting the holiday table with the dishes and bowls, the platters and stemware she found stored in sideboards and servers.
With much verve, and a true Voltairian spirit, he at first took up a moderate attitude, but being a time server soon discovered that his interest lay in another direction.