Host
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Host or hosts may refer to:
- A person who provides hospitalityHospitalityHospitality 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...
- Host or sacramental breadSacramental breadSacramental 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.-Eastern Catholic and Orthodox:...
- Host (biology)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...
, organism harboring another organism on or in itself - Host (psychology)Host (psychology)In psychology and mental health, a host is the most important mental entity in someone who has dissociative identity disorder...
, "personality" emphasized in treating dissociative identity disorder - Host (radio), the presenter or announcer on a radio show
- Host (sometimes hostess, in feminine form), the presenterPresenterA 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 is a person that hosts or presents a show...
for an event - Host, headwaiter (Maître d' or Maître d'hôtel) of a restaurant or hotel
- Host, PennsylvaniaHost, PennsylvaniaHost is one of many unincorporated communities that dot the agriculture-covered landscape of Berks County, Pennsylvania. The village is located in southeastern Tulpehocken Township, along Pennsylvania Route 419. Children here attend the Tulpehocken Area School District, whose high school is located...
In computing
- Host (network)Host (network)A network host is a computer connected to a computer network. A network host may offer information resources, services, and applications to users or other nodes on the network. A network host is a network node that is assigned a network layer host address....
, a computer connected to the Internet or another IP-based network- Hosts fileHosts fileThe hosts file is a computer file used in an operating system to map hostnames to IP addresses. The hosts file is a plain-text file and is conventionally named hosts.-Purpose:...
, a computer file to be used to store information on where to find an internet host on a computer network - host (Unix)Host (Unix)host is a simple utility for performing Domain Name System lookups. It was developed by the Internet Systems Consortium , and is released under the ISC license, a permissive free software license....
, a command-line Unix command - Internet hosting serviceInternet hosting serviceAn 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, allowing several DNS names to share the same IP address
- Hosts file
- In cross-compilation, the host machine is the computer the compiler is running on
- 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, for example an xhost (X Window host)
- Virtual machineVirtual machineA virtual machine is a "completely isolated guest operating system installation within a normal host operating system". Modern virtual machines are implemented with either software emulation or hardware virtualization or both together.-VM Definitions:A virtual machine is a software...
host, a computer within which another computer is emulated and hosted by virtualization
An army, group, or formation
- Cossack hostCossack hostA Cossack host or Cossack viysko was an administrative subdivision of Cossacks in Imperial Russia...
, 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 HostTerek Cossack HostThe Terek Cossack Host was a Cossack host created in 1577 from free Cossacks who resettled from the Volga to the Terek River. In 1792 it was included in the Caucasus Line Cossack Host and separated from it again in 1860, with the capital of Vladikavkaz...
- Transbaikal Cossack Host
- Ural Cossack HostUral Cossack HostThe Ural Cossack Host was a cossack host formed from the Ural Cossacks -- those cossacks settled by the Ural River. Their alternative name, Yaik Cossacks, comes from the old name of the river.- History :...
- Ussuri Cossack Host
- Danube Cossack HostDanube Cossack HostThe Danube Cossack Host was an Imperial Russian Cossack Host formed in 1828 prior to the Russo-Turkish War , on the order of Emperor Nicholas I from descendants of the Zaporozhian Cossacks living in Bessarabia and in particularly the Budjak. Russian Cossack Host named Lower-Danube Budjak Host had...
, an Imperial Russian Cossack Host formed from descendants of the Zaporozhian Cossacks - Zaporozhian HostZaporozhian HostThe Zaporozhian Cossacks or simply Zaporozhians were Ukrainian Cossacks who lived beyond the rapids of the Dnieper river, the land also known as the Great Meadow in Central Ukraine...
, the Zaporozhian Cossacks who lived in Zaporizhia, in Central Ukraine
- Furious Host or the Wild HuntWild HuntThe 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, spectral group of huntsmen with the accoutrements of hunting, horses, hounds, etc., in mad pursuit across the skies or along the ground,...
, a European folk myth - Heavenly hostHeavenly hostHeavenly host refers to an army of good angels mentioned in the Bible. It is led either by the Archangel Michael, Jesus, or by God himself. Most descriptions of angels in the Bible describe them in military terms, such as encampment , command structure , and combat...
, an "army" of good angels in Heaven- Lord of hosts, a common expression in the Old testament
Fictional military hosts
- The Hosts of RebeccaThe Hosts of RebeccaThe Hosts of Rebecca is a novel by Alexander Cordell, first published in 1960. It is the second in Cordell's "Mortymer Trilogy", followed by Song of the Earth....
, a 1960 novel by Alexander Cordell about the Rebecca Riots - Avenging Host, a group of characters in Marvel Comics Earth X series of comic books
- Rutan HostRutan HostRutans are a fictional extraterrestrial race from the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. They have been at war with the Sontaran Empire for more than 50,000 years, and this war dominates both cultures to the exclusion of all else...
, fictional aliens from Doctor Who - In J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional Middle-earth, several armies are Armies and hosts of Middle-earth warfareArmies and Hosts of Middle-earth warfareIn J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional Middle-earth much of the history of the three ages of his legendarium are concerned with wars and the battles and armies of those wars.-Armies of Middle-earth, hierarchy and organization:...
, referred to as hosts - Hosts (World of Darkness), fictional characters in game Werewolf: The Forsaken
Titles of expressive works
- Host (Paradise Lost album), 1999
- Host (Critters Buggin album)Host (Critters Buggin album)Host is the second studio album by Critters Buggin of Seattle, Washington and was released in 1996. It was recorded December 18–20 at Bad Animals and December 21–23 live at OK Hotel 1995...
, 1996 - Hosts (novel)Hosts (novel)Hosts is the fifth volume in a series of Repairman Jack books written by American author F. Paul Wilson. The book was first published by Gauntlet Press in a signed limited first edition then later as a trade hardcover from Forge and a mass market paperback from Forge ....
, a 2001 book written by American author F. Paul Wilson - Host, a 1993 book by Peter JamesPeter James (writer)Peter James is a British writer of crime fiction and film producer.-Life:James is the son of Cornelia James, the former glovemaker to Queen Elizabeth II. He was educated at Charterhouse School and went on to Ravensbourne Film School. Subsequently he spent several years in North America, working as...
- Host, the third novel in the Rogue Mage series by Faith Hunter
Other
- Host stationHost StationA host station is a category of railway station on Melbourne's suburban rail network which is operated by Metro Trains Melbourne. In terms of station standards, a host station is a middle standard station which sits between the low standard unmanned stations and the high standard premium...
, railway stations in Melbourne, Australia with toilets etc - Host, an author abbreviation in botany for Nicolaus Thomas HostNicolaus Thomas HostNicolaus Thomas Host was an Austrian botanist, and the personal physician of Holy Roman Emperor Francis II. His botanical works include Synopsis plantarum in Austria and the four-volume Austriacorum Icones et descriptions graminum; he was also the first director of the botanical garden at the...
See also
- Hosting (disambiguation), various meanings
- The Host (disambiguation)
- Hostess (disambiguation)