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**[[Internet hosting service]], a service that runs Internet servers allowing organizations and individuals to serve content to the Internet |
**[[Internet hosting service]], a service that runs Internet servers allowing organizations and individuals to serve content to the Internet |
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**[[Virtual host]], allowing several DNS names to share the same IP address |
**[[Virtual host]], allowing several DNS names to share the same IP address |
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*[[Master/slave (technology)|Host/Peripheral]] (Master/slave) are about device control relationships |
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*[[USB On-The-Go|Host/Peripheral]] (Master/slave) relationships are typically swappable with USB On-The-Go (USB OTG) devices. |
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*[[Cross compiler]] host |
*[[Cross compiler]] host |
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*[[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 |
*[[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 |
Revision as of 17:14, 28 February 2014
The term host is most often used to describe a male (hostess in feminine form) presenter for an event.
Host or hosts may refer to:
- A person who provides hospitality
- Host or sacramental bread
- Host (biology), organism harboring another organism on or in itself
- Host (psychology), "personality" emphasized in treating dissociative identity disorder
- Host (radio), the presenter or announcer on a radio show
- Host, headwaiter (Maître d' or Maître d'hôtel) of a restaurant or hotel
- Host, Pennsylvania, a village in Berks County
- Talk show host, a TV or radio personality
In computing
- Host (network), a computer connected to the Internet or another IP-based network
- Hosts file, a computer file to be used to store information on where to find an internet host on a computer network
- host (Unix), a command-line Unix command
- Internet hosting service, 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
- Host/Peripheral (Master/slave) are about device control relationships
- Host/Peripheral (Master/slave) relationships are typically swappable with USB On-The-Go (USB OTG) devices.
- Cross compiler host
- 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
- Host machine, a computer that has a virtual machine running on it
- Web host, a computer or group of computers that make a website available to the world
- Homeland Open Security Technology (HOST), a project to promote the creation and use of open security and open-source software in the United States government and military
An army, group, or formation
- Cossack hosts comprised organic and administrative subdivision of Cossacks in Imperial Russia. Host names reflected location or origin. Cossack hosts included:
- Amur Cossack Host (1854–)
- Astrakhan Cossack Host
- Azov Cossack Host (1832–1862)
- Black Sea Cossack Host (1787–)
- Buh Cossack Host (1769–)
- Caucasus Line Cossack Host (1832–1860)
- Don Cossack Host
- Kuban Cossack Host (1860–1920)
- Orenburg Cossack Host (1755–)
- Semiryechye Cossack Host (1867–)
- Terek Cossack Host (1577–)
- Transbaikal Cossack Host (1851–)
- Ural Cossack Host
- Ussuri Cossack Host (1889–)
- Danube Cossack Host (1828–1868), an Imperial Russian Cossack Host formed from descendants of the Zaporozhian Cossacks
- Zaporozhian Host (–1775), the Zaporozhian Cossacks who lived in Zaporizhia, in Central Ukraine
- Furious Host or the Wild Hunt, a European folk myth
- Heavenly host, an "army" of good angels in Heaven
- Lord of hosts, a common epithet of the God of the Old Testament
Fictional military hosts
- The Hosts of Rebecca, 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 Host, fictional aliens from Doctor Who
- J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional Armies and hosts of Middle-earth warfare
- In George R. R. Martin's fantasy series, A Song of Ice and Fire, armies are often 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), 1996
- Hosts (novel), a 2001 book written by American author F. Paul Wilson
- Host, a 1993 book by Peter James
- Host, the third novel in the Rogue Mage series by Faith Hunter
Other
- Host (liturgy), sacramental bread
- Host station, railway stations in Melbourne, Australia with toilets etc.
- Host, an author abbreviation in botany for Nicolaus Thomas Host
See also
- Hosting (disambiguation), various meanings
- The Host (disambiguation)
- Hostess (disambiguation)