Host vs Neighbour - What's the difference?
host | neighbour |
One which receives or entertains a guest, socially, commercially, or officially.
* (and other bibliographic particulars) (Shakespeare)
One that provides a facility for an event.
A person or organization responsible for running an event.
A moderator or master of ceremonies for a performance.
(computing, Internet) A in a network.
(computing, Internet) Any computer attached to a network.
(biology) A cell or organism which harbors another organism or biological entity, usually a parasite.
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, title= (evolutionism, genetics) An organism bearing certain genetic material.
Consecrated bread such as that used in the Christian ceremony of the Eucharist.
A paid male companion offering conversation and in some cases sex, as in certain types of bar in Japan.
To perform the role of a host.
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, title= (obsolete) To lodge at an inn.
* Shakespeare
(computing, Internet) To run software made available to a remote user or process.
* 1987 May 7, Selden E. Ball, Jr., Re: Ethernet Terminal Concentrators'', comp.protocols.tcp-ip, ''Usenet
A multitude of people arrayed as an army; used also in religious senses, as: Heavenly host (of angels)
* 1843 , (Thomas Carlyle), '', book 3, ch. X, ''Plugson of Undershot
* 2001 , Carlos Parada, Hesione 2 ,
A large number of items; a large inventory.
(en noun) (British spelling)
A person living on adjacent or nearby land; a person situated adjacently or nearby; anything (of the same type of thing as the subject) in an adjacent or nearby position.
* 1660 , , The Tales and Jests of Mr. Hugh Peters , reprinted 1807,
* 1913 , , 2010,
* 1973 , , Nova Scotia: Window on the Sea ,
* 2009 , D. Staufer, Classical Percolation'', Asok K. Sen, Kamal K. Bardhan, Bikas K. Chakrabarti (editors), ''Quantum and Semi-Classical Percolation and Breakdown in Disordered Solids , Springer, Lecture Notes in Physics 762,
* 2011', Richard Jensen, Chris Cornelis, ''Fuzzy-Rough Nearest '''Neighbour Classification'', James F. Peters, Andrzej Skowron (editors-in-chief), ''Transactions on Rough Sets XIII , Springer, Lecture Notes in Computing Science 6499,
One who is near in sympathy or confidence.
* Shakespeare
(biblical) any fellow human being
* You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the Lord. —Leviticus 19:18 (NKJV)
To be adjacent to (more often used as neighbouring)
* Sandys
To approach; to verge on.
To associate intimately with.
As nouns the difference between host and neighbour
is that host is autumn (season) while neighbour is a person living on adjacent or nearby land; a person situated adjacently or nearby; anything (of the same type of thing as the subject) in an adjacent or nearby position.As a verb neighbour is
to be adjacent to (more often used as neighbouring).host
English
Alternative forms
* hoast (obsolete)Etymology 1
From (etyl) oste (French: . Used in English since 13th century.Noun
(en noun)- Time is like a fashionable host , / That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand.
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Verb
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- Where you shall host .
- CMU/TEK TCP/IP software uses an excessive amount of cpu resources for terminal support both outbound, when accessing another system, and inbound, when the local system is hosting a session.
See also
* guest * event * master of ceremoniesEtymology 2
From (etyl) hoste, from Middle (etyl) ), cognate with etymology 1.Noun
(en noun)- Why, Plugson, even thy own host is all in mutiny: Cotton is conquered; but the ‘bare backs’ — are worse covered than ever!
Greek Mythology Link
- the invading host that had sailed from Hellas in more than one thousand ships was of an unprecedented size.
- A host of parts for my Model A.
Derived terms
* heavenly host * Lord of HostsEtymology 3
From (etyl) also oist, ost, from (etyl) hoiste, from (etyl) .See also
* hostageneighbour
English
Alternative forms
* (US) neighbor * (archaic) neyghbour * (obsolete) naybor, naybour, neibor, neibour, neighbore, neighboure, neyghbor, neyghbore, neyghboureNoun
- My neighbour has an annoying cat.
- They?re our neighbours across the street.
- My neighbour is very irritable and grumpy at times.
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- Being at his own house in the country, when a great tempest of wind rose, he takes an occasion to visit a neighbour' by him, and being somewhat merily disposed, quoth he Oh ' neighbour , did you not see what a wind there was the other day?
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- Undine at length shrank back with an unrecognizing face; but her movement made her opera-glass slip to the floor, and her neighbour bent down and picked it up.
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- Neighbours' enact their substantive noun when there?s a ' neighbour?s sickness in the night; as friends do theirs, the cindered and the green times through.
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- Then a cluster is grown by letting each empty neighbour' of an already occupied cluster site decide once and for all, whether it is occupied or empty. One needs to keep and to update a perimeter list of empty ' neighbours .
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- By contrast to the latter, our method uses the nearest neighbours to construct lower and upper approximations of decision classes, and classifies test instances based on their membership to these approximations.
- Buckingham / No more shall be the neighbour to my counsel.
Synonyms
* (l) * (christian sense) fellow, fellow manAntonyms
* (biblical) stranger, foreignerDerived terms
* good fences make good neighbours * love for one's neighbour * neighbourhood (pos n) * neighbouring (pos n) * neighbourly (pos a) * neighbourliness (pos n)Verb
(en-verb) (British spelling)- Though France neighbours Germany, its culture is significantly different.
- leisurely ascending hills that neighbour the shore
- That sort of talk is neighbouring on treason.
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