HOST


'Host' or 'hosts' (feminine 'hostess') may refer to one of the following.
In 'Christianity':

Heavenly host, an army of good angels in Heaven

Host (Holy Communion), bread in the Eucharist
In 'culture':

Host (event), a television or radio show 'host' or 'presenter'

''Host'' (album), a 1999 album by the band Paradise Lost

''Hosts'' (novel), a Repairman Jack novel by F. Paul Wilson

''The Host'', a sci-fi movie

Rutan Host, a fictional extraterrestrial race from the British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who''

Hosts, antagonists from White Wolf's ''Werewolf: The Forsaken'' roleplaying game
In 'science and engineering':

Bastion host, a machine that controls access between a private network and a public one

Host (network), a node on a computer network that is a computer.

Host computer, a machine that communicates via a network, includes servers and clients; in contrast to network transport devices such as routers and switches

Hosts file, a file that serves to look up Internet Protocol addresses

Smart host, a type of mail relay server which allows an SMTP server to route e-mail to an intermediate mail server

Web host, a company or individual in web hosting who offers web space and sometimes a domain name

Host (biology), an organism that harbors a parasite, mutual partner, or commensal partner

Host (psychology), the most important mental entity in someone who has Dissociative Identity Disorder
'Other':

★ A restaurant host or Maître d'

Hostess bar, flight attendant

Host galaxy, a galaxy with an active galactic nucleus at its core

Host Station, a railway station on Melbourne's suburban rail network

Cossack host, an administrative subdivision of Cossacks in Imperial Russia

T. Parker Host, Sr., a mayor of Newport News, Virginia

★ A small island near Vis, Croatia.

Hostess (brand)

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