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  1. noun One who receives or entertains guests in a social or official capacity.
  2. noun A person who manages an inn or hotel.
  3. noun One that furnishes facilities and resources for a function or event: the city chosen as host for the Olympic Games.
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  • Hosting uptime refers to the percentage of time; the host is accessible through the internet. —  Best Syndication -
  • First, the host should be able to guarantee a 99. 8-99.9\% percentage of up time. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
  • Once West Indies lost captain Chris Gayle for a duck, the host was always under pressure.
  • Revision as of 02: 31, 3 February 2009 networks of computerss, a host is a term for computers, on a network that do not forward traffic destined for other nodes. —  Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
  • It seems that when we can't figure it out, the host has been able to change something in the PHP. ini file, or something.
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  1. Middle English, host, guest, from Old French, from Latin hospes, hospit-; see ghos-ti- in Indo-European roots.
  2. Middle English, from Old French, from Late Latin hostis, from Latin, enemy; see ghos-ti- in Indo-European roots.
  3. Middle English, from Latin hostia, sacrifice.

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  1. from Middle English host, ost, from Old French host = Provencal ost = Spanish hoste, hueste = Portuguese hoste = Italian oste, a host, an army, from Latin hostis, Old Latin fostis, a stranger, foreigner, enemy, plural hostes, the enemy, hence in Middle Latin singular hostis, an army; = Old Bulgarian Russian, etc., goste, a guest, visitor, stranger, = Anglo-Saxon gœst, English guest, etc.: see guest. Hence host (a contracted compound), and possibly host, q. v.
  2. from host, n. Cf. hosting, n.
  3. from Middle English host, ost, hoste, oste, from Old French hoste, French hôte = Provencal hoste, oste = Spanish Italian oste, a host, innkeeper, from Latin hospes (hospit-), feminine hospita, an entertainer, a host, also a sojourner, visitor, guest; hence, a foreigner, a stranger; prob. contr. of orig. *hostipes (*hostipit-), literally ‘guest-master,’ one who receives guests or strangers (= Old Bulgarian Russian, etc., gospode, lord, master, the Lord: see hospodar), from hostis, a stranger (see host), + -pes (-pit-), connected with potis, powerful, orig. lord, = Greek -πότης in δεσπότης, lord, master (see despot), = Sanskrit pati, master, governor, lord: see potent, posse. From this L. hospes are derived also English hospitable, hospital, hospitate, hostel, hostler, ostler, hostelry, hotel, spittle, etc.
  4. from Old French hoster, oster, from Latin hospitare, lodge, from hospes (hospit-), a host, a guest: see host, n. Cf. hospitate.
  5. from Middle English host, hoste, hoost, oost, also hostie, from Old French hostie, French hostie = Provencal Spanish Portuguese hostia = Italian ostia, a sacrifice or thing sacrificed, from Latin hostia, Old Latin fostia, an animal sacrificed, a victim, sacrifice (in Middle Latin applied to the consecrated bread), prob. from hostire (Old Latin), strike; cf. hasta, a spear: see hastate, and gad, goad.
  6. from host, n.
 

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