单词 | host |
释义 | host 1 ![]() n. 1. One who receives or entertains guests in a social or official capacity. 2. A person who manages an inn or hotel. 3. One that furnishes facilities and resources for a function or event: the city chosen as host for the Olympic Games. 4. The emcee or interviewer on a radio or television program. 5. Biology a. An organism on which or in which another organism lives. b. A cell that has been infected by a virus or other infective agent. 6. Medicine The recipient of a transplanted tissue or organ. 7. Computers a. A computer or other device providing data or services that a remote computer can access by means of a network or modem. b. A computer that is connected to a TCP/IP network such as the internet. tr.v. host·ed, host·ing, hosts 1. To serve as host to or at: "the garden party he had hosted last spring" (Saturday Review). 2. To provide software that offers data or services, hardware, or both over a computer network. [Middle English, host, guest, from Old French, from Latin hospes, hospit-; see ghos-ti- in the Appendix of Indo-European roots.] hostly adj. |
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