server
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Noun (4)servers
- a person whose occupation is to serve at table (as in a restaurant)Synonyms: waiterType of dining-room attendant, restaurant attendantKinds waitress, carhop, sommelier, counterperson
- (court games) the player who serves to start a pointType of player, participant
- (computer science) a computer that provides client stations with access to files and printers as shared resources to a computer networkSynonyms: hostType of computer, computing machinePart of computer network
- utensil used in serving food or drinkType of utensil
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Translations
Noun server program (computing)
- Spanish
- servidor
- French
- serveur
- German
- Server
- Italian
- server
- Portuguese
- servidor
- Turkish
- sunucu
- Russian
- се́рвер sérver
- Chinese
- 服务器 fúwùqì
- Japanese
- サーバー sābā
- Dutch
- server
18 more languages
- Polish
- serwer
- Swedish
- server
- Greek
- εξυπηρετητής exypiretitís
- Korean
- 서버 seobeo
- Indonesian
- peladen
- Vietnamese
- máy chủ
- Hungarian
- szerver
- Portuguese (PT)
- servidor
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 服務器 fúwùqì
- Catalan
- servidor
- Esperanto
- servilo
- Finnish
- palvelin
- Georgian
- სერვერი serveri
- Hebrew
- שָׁרָת sharát
- Icelandic
- miðlari
- Lithuanian
- serveris
- Norwegian
- server
- Romanian
- server
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
1. One who serves.
2. A tray for dishes; a salver. Randolph.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54
Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
1.A program which provides some service to other (client) programs. The connection between client and server is normally by means of message passing, often over a network, and uses some protocol to encode the client's requests and the server's responses. The server may run continuously (as a daemon), waiting for requests to arrive or it may be invoked by some higher level daemon which controls a number of specific servers (inetd on Unix).
There are many servers associated with the Internet, such as those for HTTP, Network File System, Network Information Service (NIS), Domain Name System (DNS), FTP, news, finger, Network Time Protocol. On Unix, a long list can be found in /etc/services or in the NIS database "services". See client-server.
2.A computer which provides some service for other computers connected to it via a network. The most common example is a file server which has a local disk and services requests from remote clients to read and write files on that disk, often using Sun's Network File System (NFS) protocol or Novell Netware on PCs. Another common example is a web server. [Jargon File]
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The Jargon File
A kind of daemon that performs a service for the requester and which often runs on a computer other than the one on which the requestor/client runs. A particularly common term on the Internet, which is rife with web servers, name servers, domain servers, ‘news servers’, finger servers, and the like.