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Assets vs Server - What's the difference?

assets | server |

As nouns the difference between assets and server

is that assets is while server is server (a computer or software that provides services to other programs or users).

assets

English

Noun

(head)
  • English plurals
  • (finance) Any property or object of value that one possesses, usually considered as applicable to the payment of one's debts.
  • His assets are much greater than his liabilities.
  • (legal) Sufficient estate; property sufficient in the hands of an executor or heir to pay the debts or legacies of the testator or ancestor to satisfy claims against it.
  • Any goods or property properly available for the payment of a bankrupt's or a deceased person's obligations or debts.
  • server

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who serves; a waitress or waiter.
  • A tray for dishes; a salver.
  • (computing) A program which provides services to other programs or users, either in the same computer or over a computer network.
  • (senseid)(computing) A computer dedicated to running such programs.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-14, author=(Jonathan Freedland)
  • , volume=189, issue=1, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Obama's once hip brand is now tainted , passage=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.}}

    Usage notes

    * Some prefer (term) to (waiter) or (waitress) because it is unisex.

    Derived terms

    * fileserver * microserver * miniserver * serverless * timeserver

    Antonyms

    * client