server

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. One who serves food and drink.
2. n. Something, such as a tray, that is used in serving food and drink.
3. n. An altar server.
4. n. Law One who serves a writ or summons.
5. n. Sports The player who serves, as in court games.
6. n. Computer Science A file server.
7. n. Computer Science A computer that processes requests for HTML and other documents that are components of webpages.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. One who serves.
2. n. Specifically.
3. n. In the Roman Catholic and Anglican churches, an attendant on the priest at a low celebration of the eucharist, who helps the priest to vest and unvest, arranges the service-book, lights and extinguishes the altar-lights, places the elements and cruets on the credence and brings them to the priest at the offertory, brings the priest the basin and towel and pours the water at the lavabo, pours out the ablutions of wine and water, and ministers in other ways. The server is usually a boy or other layman, and represents, as far as a layman can, the priest's assistants and the choir at a high celebration.
4. n. One who serves up a meal, or sets the dishes on table.
5. n. In the game of tennis or of lawn-tennis, the player who serves or strikes the ball first. See lawn-tennis.
6. n. That which serves or is used in serving. Specifically
7. n. A male animal, particularly a bull, that copulates with, or serves, the female.

Wiktionary

1. n. One who serves; a waitress or waiter.
2. n. A tray for dishes; a salver.
3. n. computing A computer or a program which provides services to other programs or users, either in the same computer or over a computer network.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. One who serves.
2. n. A tray for dishes; a salver.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. utensil used in serving food or drink
2. n. (court games) the player who serves to start a point
3. n. (computer science) a computer that provides client stations with access to files and printers as shared resources to a computer network
4. n. a person whose occupation is to serve at table (as in a restaurant)