server
nounUK /ˈsɜːvə/ · US /ˈsɝvɚ/
Etymology From Middle English servere, equivalent to serve + -er.
8 senses
- 1A program that provides services to other programs or…
- 2A computer dedicated to running such programs.
- 3A community space where only those who joined it can…
- 4A waitress or waiter.
- 5The player who serves the ball.
- 6A priest's attendant at the celebration of the Eucharist.
- 7A tray for dishes.
- 8A spoon for serving food.
1
Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences A program that provides services to other programs or devices, either in the same computer or over a computer network.
2
Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences A computer dedicated to running such programs.
- Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined. Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet.2013 June 14, Jonathan Freedland, “Obama's once hip brand is now tainted”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 1, page 18:
3
A community space where only those who joined it can communicate in channels.
- Please take a look at my log its completely going haywire… My server is changing the admin name and doesn’t store any created channels.2020 August 11, EasyCompZeeland, “My server is changing the admin name and doesn’t store any created channels… out of the blue”, in Official TeamSpeak Community Forum, TeamSpeak Server:
- Discord gives you the power to create an invite-only home for your friends or community - a place where you can talk, hang out, and have fun. We call these special places - servers [...]2020, “Beginner's Guide to Discord”, in Discord Help Center:
1 more example
- Basically like how there is an emoji button for statuses and bios but make them for certain settings such as channel names or descriptions. This little QOL(quality of life) change would add a slightly faster way of navigating through channels and add a nicer more organized appearance to some servers.2024 June 30, Narunzo, “I can't find a decent place where I can post a suggestion and it would be seen by staff in Guilded so I'm posting my suggestion here”, in Reddit, r/guilded:
› One who serves.
4
A waitress or waiter.
5
Ball games, Games, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Sports, Tennis, Volleyball The player who serves the ball.
6
Christianity A priest's attendant at the celebration of the Eucharist.
7
A tray for dishes.
8
A spoon for serving food.
- Derived terms
46 terms
server computer, blade server, cake server, chunkserver, client-server, cockserver, cross-server, distribution server, DNS server, domain name server, eye-server, file server, interserver, jump server, keyserver, key server, language server, lip-server, listserver, metaserver, mirror server journal, multiserver, name server, nonserver, open proxy server, pie server, preprint server, print server, process server, proxy server, servent, server farm, serverless, serverlet, servermate, server-only, server push, server-side, server-side rendering, server-side storage, serverwide, servlet, streaming server, subserver, superserver, web server- Hyponyms
- anarchy server, application server, database server, data structure server, dedicated server, deskside server, fileserver, microserver, miniserver, pedestal server, physical server, shared server, stand-alone server, stand-alone Web server, timeserver, time-server, virtual private server, virtual server, Web server, wine server