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host 1 H0288900 (hōst)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 Indo-European roots.] host′ly adj.
host 2 H0288900 (hōst)n.1. An army.2. A great number; a multitude. See Synonyms at multitude. [Middle English, from Old French, from Late Latin hostis, from Latin, enemy; see ghos-ti- in Indo-European roots.]
host 3 also Host H0288900 (hōst)n. Ecclesiastical The consecrated bread or wafer of the Eucharist. [Middle English, from Latin hostia, sacrifice.]Hosting a muster of armed men, 1422.Translationsφιλοξενίαhébergementхостингhosting
hostingProviding, running and maintaining a computer system. See Web hosting.hosting
hosting looking after information on a computer system. This is the object of special protection to those involved in the practice, normally internet service providers. Where an information society service is provided which consists of the storage of information provided by a recipient of the service, the service provider (if he otherwise would) will not be liable for damages or for any other pecuniary remedy or for any criminal sanction as a result of that storage where: - (1) the service provider:
- (a) does not have actual knowledge of unlawful activity or information and, where a claim for damages is made, is not aware of facts or circumstances from which it would have been apparent to the service provider that the activity or information was unlawful; or
- (b) upon obtaining such knowledge or awareness, acts expeditiously to remove or to disable access to the information, and;
- (2) the recipient of the service was not acting under the authority or the control of the service provider.
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