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Encouragement vs Server - What's the difference?

encouragement | server |

As nouns the difference between encouragement and server

is that encouragement is the act of encouraging; incitement to action or to practice; as, the encouragement of youth in generosity while server is server (a computer or software that provides services to other programs or users).

encouragement

English

Alternative forms

* incouragement (archaic)

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of encouraging; incitement to action or to practice; as, the encouragement of youth in generosity.
  • All generous encouragement of arts. -Otway.
  • That which serves to incite, support, promote or advance, as favor, countenance, reward etc.; incentive; increase of confidence; as, the fine arts find little encouragement among a rude people.
  • To think of his paternal care, Is a most sweet encouragement to prayer. -Byron.

    Synonyms

    * See also

    References

    (Webster 1913) ----

    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