Word Finder - host

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One which receives or entertains a guest, socially, commercially, or officially.

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A good host is always considerate of the guest’s needs.

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One that provides a facility for an event.

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A person or organization responsible for running an event.

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Our company is host of the annual conference this year.

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A moderator or master of ceremonies for a performance.

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The host was terrible, but the acts themselves were good.

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Any computer attached to a network.

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A cell or organism which harbors another organism or biological entity, usually a parasite.

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Viruses depend on the host that they infect in order to be able to reproduce.

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(evolution) An organism bearing certain genetic material.

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The so-called junk DNA is known, so far, to provide no apparent benefit to its host.

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A paid male companion offering conversation and in some cases sex, as in certain types of bar in Japan.

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To perform the role of a host.

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I was terrible at hosting that show.

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To lodge at an inn.

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To run software made available to a remote user or process.

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Kremvax hosts a variety of services.

Behind him walked his host and hostess.

The original host goes mad.

I remember my own host day.

With it came a host of nightmares.

If its host died, it would be forced out.

Then Henry Ford came along, followed by a host of others, and cars got better and better while getting less and less expensive.

Then the host caught her off guard when the conversation segued to the Psychic Tipster.

You.ll find our chefs the best in the world, the host said, ignoring Katie to address her sister.

An attempt to hold a public procession of the Host in connexion with the Eucharistic Congress at Westminster in 1908, however, was the signal for the outburst of a considerable amount of opposition, and was eventually abandoned owing to the personal intervention of the prime minister.

According to Allan Goodman, president and CEO of the Institute of International Education, The United States continues to host more international students than any other country in the world.

Yet he fought a fresh action at Gross-Scheueren on the 6th of August, and contrived to bring off the fragments of his host to Temesvar, to aid the hardly-pressed Dembinski.

The presence of these parasites seems at times to have little effect on the host, and men in whose system it is calculated there are some 40-50 million larvae have shown no signs of disease.

Numerous wild hypotheses as to changes in the constitution of the host-plant, leading to supposed vulnerability previously non-existent, would probably never have seen the light had the full significance of the truth been grasped that an epidemic results when the external laciors favor a parasite somewhat more than they do the host.

Try your hand at outdoor chess, table tennis, or a host of other free games.

Fortunately, there are a host of alternatives to support your gluten-free lifestyle.

Mr. O'Connor has been the perfect host.

The advantages it can offer to its host are, however, infinitesimal when compared with the injury it does it.

Nowadays the host does not admit you to his hearth, but has got the mason to build one for yourself somewhere in his alley, and hospitality is the art of keeping you at the greatest distance.

The other guests, embarrassed to see their host so humiliated and wanting no part of a Dawkins brawl, murmured excuses and toddled off to bed.

Memon was more than willing to become its host.

When he came, a host of new difficulties arose.

The constitutional conflict, gave rise to a host of books and pamphlets in various languages.

As the patches extend in size by the growth of the fungus they at length become confluent, and so the leaves are destroyed and an end is put to one of the chief vital functions of the host plant.

He may offer an alternative solution such as sipping the sacramental wine instead of taking the host.

The bar is very popular with its host of regular customers, and is particularly crowded on weekends.

The hotel has a banquet facility to host business events as well as parties and weddings, and also offers catering services.

Bradenton offers a host of outdoor recreational activities, such as kayaking, hiking, snorkeling, camping and bird watching.

Having no way to refuse, she followed him to the campfire of their host.

Following a host of we-should-have-known-better's, the Deans realized there was a silver lining in Pumpkin's hasty departure.

The orchestra fell silent, and somewhere someone --possibly the host --called for the generators to be turned on.

He hadn't spoken to Edith Shipton since her husband's accident and felt, as the host of Bird Song, he owed the woman some sort of condolence.

Though the weight of sadness from the past few days was still in evidence, she was obviously brightened by Fred O'Connor, the per­fect host.

After several seasons and seventeen children, we discovered the right age for a host.

My son nears the age where my uncle says the demon must claim him as a host.

She had enough strength to control the demon; maybe she could prevent it from escaping to a new host.

Two demons cannot live in one host.

It must die with its host.

But now, the she-demon needs a host.

The maxillae are not piercing organs, and their function is to protect the mandibles and labrum and separate the hairs or feathers of the host.

Though querulous because of his non-preferment, De Quincey tells us that "his lordship was a joyous, jovial, and cordial host."

The Nematoda which are parasitic during their whole life may similarly be divided into two classes - those which undergo their development in a single host, and those which undergo their development in the bodies of two distinct hosts.

The parasitic actinula is found attached to the proboscis of the medusa; it thrusts its greatly elongated hypostome into the mouth of the medusa and nourishes itself upon the food in the digestive cavity of its host.

Numerous Fungi, though conspicuous as parasites, cannot be said to do much individual injury to the host.

In his seventieth year, as lieutenant-general of the North, he led the English host on the great day of Flodden, earning a patent of the dukedom of Norfolk, dated 1 February 1513/4, and that strange patent which granted to him and his heirs that they should bear in the midst of the silver bend of their Howard shield a demi-lion stricken in the mouth with an arrow, in the right colours of the arms of the king of Scotland.

That designation may mean " head of the (infantry) host " as opposed to his subordinate, the magister equitum, who was " head of the cavalry."

Before we follow this host into Asia, we may pause to inquire into the various factors which would determine its course, or condition its activity.

They have been celebrated as the birthplace of King Arthur, or as the stronghold of King Mark, in a host of medieval romances, and in the poems of Tennyson and Swinburne.

A medusa with a remarkable habit of life is Mnestra parasites, which is parasitic on the pelagic mollusc Phyllirrhoe, attaching itself to the host by its subumbral surface; its tentacles, no longer required for obtaining food, have become rudimentary.

In the cells of the nodule the bacteria multiply and develop, drawing material from their host.

The region of his rule is matter of conjecture, though Galloway seems the most probable suggestion, in which case he probably led a piratic host against the Picts.