Hosting Meaning and Definition

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What is the definition Hosting? What is its meaning in the dictionary? How to pronounce? Words ending with Hosting, Related sentences, Antonyms, Words starting with Hosting, Synonyms, Derivations, Example sentences and more...

Word: Hosting

Noun

Definitions:

1. A person who receives or entertains other people as guests.

Example sentences: "They were always gracious hosts at the numerous dinner parties they held for friends"

2. An animal or plant on or in which a parasite or commensal organism lives.

Example sentences: "Parasites that manipulate the sex of their hosts are called reproductive parasites - and they are not as rare as one might like to think."

3. A person or animal that has received transplanted tissue or a transplanted organ.

Example sentences: "There are the intelligent sows called pigoons, bred as hosts for human transplant organs."

4. A computer which stores a website or other data that can be accessed over the internet or which provides other services to a network.

Example sentences: "In either case, software runs on a real-time operating system, but it can be accessed from a host computer using an Ethernet connection."

Verb

Definitions:

1. Act as host at (an event) or for (a television or radio programme)

Example sentences: "Canada was asked to host a Commonwealth conference in Ottawa"

2. Store (a website or other data) on a server or other computer so that it can be accessed over the internet.

Example sentences: "Columbia University currently hosts some 400 websites"

Noun

Definitions:

1. A large number of people or things.

Example sentences: "A host of memories rushed into her mind"

2. An army.

Example sentences: "So he merely stood on the wall above the gate, watching his army take on the host of elves."