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Definition of Server
1. Noun. A person whose occupation is to serve at table (as in a restaurant).
Specialized synonyms: Carhop, Counterman, Counterperson, Counterwoman, Sommelier, Wine Steward, Wine Waiter, Waitress
Generic synonyms: Dining-room Attendant, Restaurant Attendant
Derivative terms: Serve, Wait
2. Noun. (court games) the player who serves to start a point.
3. Noun. (computer science) a computer that provides client stations with access to files and printers as shared resources to a computer network.
Generic synonyms: Computer, Computing Device, Computing Machine, Data Processor, Electronic Computer, Information Processing System
Group relationships: Computer Network
Category relationships: Computer Science, Computing
4. Noun. Utensil used in serving food or drink.
Definition of Server
1. n. One who serves.
Definition of Server
1. Noun. One who serves; a waitress or waiter. ¹
2. Noun. A tray for dishes; a salver. ¹
3. Noun. (computing) A computer or a program which provides services to other programs or users, either in the same computer or over a computer network. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Server
1. one that serves another [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Server
Literary usage of Server
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Backup Book: Disaster Recovery from Desktop to Data Center by Dorian J. Cougias, E. L. Heiberger, Karsten Koop (2003)
"Running a backup on top of a heavy processing load of a video server causes major
performance problems. Data (honge The rate at which data changes on your ..."
2. Men and Women of the Time: A Dictionary of Contemporaries by Victor Plarr (1895)
"server Pacha possessed in an eminent degree all the qualifications necessary ...
server Pacha subsequently became, in succession, Minister of Public Works. ..."
3. The pilgrim's progress from this world to that which is to come by John Bunyan (1879)
"Almost the whole town; and in particular, my Lord Turn-about, my Lord Time-server,
my Lord Fair-speech, (from whose ancestors that town first took its name ..."
4. An Analytical Digest of the Cases Published in the New Series of the Law by Francis Towers Streeten, Edward Alfred Hadley (1868)
"To render the server liable to an action for omitting to make such indorsement,
... The declaration alleged that the defendant was a process-server, ..."
5. An Introduction to Computer Security: The Nist Handbook by Barbara Guttman (1996)
"The central component of the LAN is a LAW server, a more powerful computer that acts
... The server provides logical access controls on potentially sharable ..."
6. Getting Started with SAS(R) Enterprise Miner(tm) 5.2 by SAS Institute, SAS Publishing (CRT), SAS Institute Staff (2006)
"See "Configure Example Data on a Metadata server" on page for details about how
to define and set up your data sets. Configure Example Data on a Metadata ..."
7. Methods and Players of Modern Lawn Tennis by Jahial Parmly Paret (1915)
"Centre Theory Helps the server Serving Down the Centre of the Court pected line
pass. Or the opposite may be the case, and can be anticipated similarly. ..."
8. Methods and Players of Modern Lawn Tennis by Jahial Parmly Paret (1922)
"The centre theory is perhaps of more value to the server than at any other point
... The most difficult problem the server has to solve is to get to the net ..."
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