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Webster 1913 Edition


Server

Serv′er

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Noun.
1.
One who serves.
2.
A tray for dishes; a salver.
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Definition 2024


Server

Server

See also: server

German

Server

Noun

Server m (genitive Servers, plural Server)

  1. (computing) server (a computer or software that provides services to other programs or users)

Declension

server

server

See also: Server

English

A Viennese beer server
A rack-mounted server computer

Noun

server (plural servers)

  1. (computing) A program that provides services to other programs or users, either in the same computer or over a computer network.
  2. (computing) A computer dedicated to running such programs.
    • 2013 June 14, Jonathan Freedland, Obama's once hip brand is now tainted”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 1, page 18:
      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.
  3. One who serves; a waitress or waiter.
  4. A tray for dishes; a salver.

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Latin

Verb

server

  1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of servō

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

server

  1. imperative of servere

Swedish

Noun

server c

  1. (computing) a server

Declension

Inflection of server 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative server servern servrar servrarna
Genitive servers serverns servrars servrarnas

Turkish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /seɾˈveɾ/
  • Hyphenation: ser‧ver

Noun

server (definite accusative serveri, plural serverler)

  1. servant

Declension