Host vs Slag - What's the difference?
host | slag |
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.
Waste material from a coal mine.
* 2011 , Vivienne Dockerty, A Woman Undefeated ,
Scum that forms on the surface of molten metal.
* 2006 , Melisa W. Lai, Michele Burns Ewald, Chapter 95: Silver'', Martin J. Wonsiewicz, Karen G. Edmonson, Peter J. Boyle (editors), ''Goldfrank?s Toxicologic Emergencies , 8th Edition,
* 2009 , , Monongahela Dusk ,
Impurities]] formed and separated out when a metal is smelted from ore; [[vitrify, vitrified cinders.
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, chapter=2 * 2008 , Barbara S. Ottaway, Ben Roberts, The Emergence of Metalworking'', Andrew Jones (editor), ''Prehistoric Europe: Theory and Practice ,
Hard aggregate remaining as a residue from blast furnaces, sometimes used as a surfacing material.
* 2006 , Jan R. Prusinski, 44: Slag as a Cementitious Material'', Joseph F. Lamond, James H. Pielert (editors), ''Significance of Tests and Properties of Concrete and Concrete-Making Materials ,
* 2010 , Yuri N. Toulouevski, Ilyaz Y. Zinurov, Innovation in Electric Arc Furnaces , Springer,
Scoria associated with a volcano.
(UK, pejorative, dated) A coward.
(UK, pejorative) A contemptible person, a scumbag.
* 1996 , '', Scene 8, 2001, ''Sarah Kane: Complete Plays ,
(UK, pejorative) A prostitute.
* 1984 , , Heart of Oak , 1997, paperback edition,
(UK, Australia, New Zealand, slang, pejorative) A woman (sometimes a man) who has loose morals relating to sex; a slut.
* 2002 , , The Woman Who Left , 2012, ebook,
* 2008 , Ashley Lister, Swingers - Female Confidential ,
To produce slag.
To talk badly about; to malign or denigrate (someone).
* 2010 , Courtenay Young, Help Yourself Towards Mental Health ,
(intransitive, Australia, slang) To spit.
As nouns the difference between host and slag
is that host is autumn (season) while slag is whipped cream or slag can be apoplexy.host
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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
* hostageslag
English
Noun
(en noun)page 54,
- After the big village, the scenery had returned to grass and woodland, but this had now given way to ugly mounds of discarded slag'. Beyond the ' slag was a colliery with its machinery and smoking chimney, making the whole area look grim and austere.
page 1358,
- In Asia Minor and on islands in the Aegean Sea, dumps of slag (scum formed by molten metal surface oxidation) demonstrate that silver was being separated from lead as early as 5000 BC.
page 255,
- He leans out over the track and skims slag off the top of the boiling steel, risking what is called “catching a flyer,” which occurs when hot metal explodes out of the mold, spraying everyone in the vicinity.
citation, passage=Buried within the Mediterranean littoral are some seventy to ninety million tons of slag from ancient smelting, about a third of it concentrated in Iberia. This ceaseless industrial fueling caused the deforestation of an estimated fifty to seventy million acres of woodlands.}}
page 207,
- Consequently, mounds of large ‘cakes’ of slag are often found near the smelting sites of the Late Bronze Age, as for example at Ramsau in Austria (Doonan et al. 1996).
page 517,
- During blast furnace operations, the plant operator pays careful attention to the slag chemistry (both composition and variability) as slag behavior is a major consideration in ensuring the quality of hot metal (molten iron).
page 16,
- All these properties are determined by slag' composition and its temperature. In basic ' slags , foaming ability increases as SiO2 concentration grows.
page 100,
- Kill him. Kill the royal slag .
page 260,
- We never talked about that, of course; we talked about how we could find a woman in the Dilly, and if the Yanks had taken them all, how we could always resort to the peroxided older slags who hung out around the side doors to Waterloo station and did knee tremblers for the Yanks.
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- ‘Slag ! Wait till I tell Jacob what we?ve been doing – and I will, you mark my words! He?ll want nowt to do with you then, will he, eh? He?ll see you for what you really are. A cheap and nasty little bitch!’
page 31,
- ‘He was a lovely man but, when I told him I wanted to continue swinging, he freaked out and called me a slag .’
Synonyms
* (impurities from a metal) dross, recrement, scoria * (woman with loose sexual morals) seeDerived terms
* slag-bag * slaggy * slag heapSee also
* clinkerVerb
page 344,
- If you slag' off the other person, then—to the extent that your child identifies with that person as their parent—you are ' slagging off a part of them.