Host
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, searchHost or hosts may refer to:
- A person who provides hospitality Hospitality is the relationship between guest and host, or the act or practice of being hospitable. Specifically, this includes the reception and entertainment of guests, visitors, or strangers, resorts, membership clubs, conventions, attractions, special events, and other services for travelers and tourists
- Host or sacramental bread Sacramental bread, sometimes called the lamb, altar bread, host or simply Communion bread, is the bread which is used in the Christian ritual of the Eucharist
- Host (biology) In biology, a host is an organism that harbors a parasite , or a mutual or commensal symbiont, typically providing nourishment and shelter. In botany, a host plant is one that supplies food resources and substrate for certain insects or other fauna. Examples of such interactions include a cell being host to a virus, a legume plant hosting helpful, organism harboring another organism on or in itself
- Host (psychology), "personality" emphasized in treating dissociative identity disorder
- Host (radio), the presenter or announcer on a radio show
- Host, (sometimes hostess, in feminine form), the presenter A presenter, or host , is a person or organization responsible for running an event. A museum or university, for example, may be the presenter or host of an exhibit. Likewise, a master of ceremonies (also MC, emcee, or host) is a person that hosts or presents a show. In films, a presenter (but not a host) is a usually well-known executive producer for an event
- Host, headwaiter (Maître d' The maître cd’ in a suitably staffed restaurant or hotel is the person in charge of assigning customers to tables in the establishment and dividing the dining area into areas of responsibility for the various servers on duty. The maître d' may also be the person who receives and records reservations for dining, as well as dealing with any or Maître d'hôtel) of a restaurant or hotel
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In computing
- Host (network) In computer networking, a network host, Internet host, host, or Internet node is a computer connected to the Internet - or more generically - to any type of data network. A network host can host information resources as well as application software for providing network services, a computer connected to the Internet or another IP-based network
- Hosts file The hosts file is a computer file used in an operating system to map hostnames to IP addresses. This method is one of several system facilities to address network nodes on a computer network. On some operating systems, the host file content is used preferentially over other methods, such as the Domain Name System , but many systems implement name, a computer file to be used to store information on where to find an internet host on a computer network
- host (Unix), a command-line Unix command
- Internet hosting service An Internet hosting service is a service that runs Internet servers, allowing organizations and individuals to serve content to the Internet. There are various levels of service and various kinds of services offered, a service that runs Internet servers allowing organizations and individuals to serve content to the Internet
- Virtual host Virtual hosting is a method for hosting multiple domain names on a computer using a single IP address. This allows one machine to share its resources, such as memory and processor cycles, to use its resources more efficiently, allowing several DNS names to share the same IP address
- Terminal host, a multi-user computer or software providing services to computer terminals, or a computer that provides services to smaller or less capable devices
- Virtual machine A virtual machine is a software implementation of a machine (i.e. a computer) that executes programs like a physical machine host, a computer within which another computer is emulated and hosted by virtualization
An army, group, or formation
- Cossack host A Cossack host or Cossack voisko was an administrative subdivision of Cossacks in Imperial Russia. The word host is an archaic word for army, and also can mean "a great number; multitude", was the administrative subdivision of Cossacks in Imperial Russia based on their location. There were:
- Amur Cossack Host
- Astrakhan Cossack Host
- Don Cossack Host
- Kuban Cossack Host
- Orenburg Cossack Host
- Semiryechye Cossack Host
- Terek Cossack Host
- Transbaikal Cossack Host
- Ural Cossack Host
- Ussuri Cossack Host
- Danube Cossack Host, an Imperial Russian Cossack Host formed from descendants of the Zaporozhian Cossacks
- Zaporozhian Host The Zaporozhian Cossacks were Cossacks who lived in Zaporozhia, in Central Ukraine. The Zaporozhian Host grew rapidly in the 15th century by serfs fleeing the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth, the Zaporozhian Cossacks who lived in Zaporizhia, in Central Ukraine
- Furious Host or the Wild Hunt The Wild Hunt is an ancient folk myth prevalent across Northern, Western and Central Europe. The fundamental premise in all instances is the same: a phantasmal group of huntsmen with the accoutrements of hunting, horses, hounds, etc., in mad pursuit across the skies or along the ground, or just above it, a European folk myth
- Heavenly host Heavenly host refers in the Bible to an 'army' of good angels in Heaven, an "army" of good angels in Heaven
- Lord of hosts, a common expression in the Old testament
Fictional military hosts
- The Hosts of Rebecca, a novel by Alexander Cordell about the Rebecca Riots
- Avenging Host, a group of characters in Marvel Comics Earth X series of comic books
- Rutan Host, fictional aliens from Doctor Who
- In J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional Middle-earth, several armies are Armies and Hosts of Middle-earth warfare, referred to as hosts
- Hosts (World of Darkness), fictional characters in game Werewolf: The Forsaken
Titles of expressive works
- Host (album), a studio album recorded by British band Paradise Lost
- Hosts (novel), a book written by American author F. Paul Wilson
- Host, a 1993 book by Peter James (writer)
- Host, the third novel in the Rogue Mage series by Faith Hunter
Other
- Host station, railway stations in Melbourne, Australia with toilets etc.
See also
- Hosting, various meanings
- The Host (disambiguation)
- Hostess (disambiguation)
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