From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Computers, Sport, Utensilsserverserv‧er /ˈsɜːvə $ ˈsɜːrvər/ ●●○ noun [countable]1a)TDthe maincomputer on a network, which controls all the others
The server’s down (=not working) again.b)TDone of the computers on a network that provides a specialservicefile/print server
All data is stored on a central file server.2DSthe player who hits the ball to begin a game in tennis, volleyball etc3DFUa special spoon for putting a particular type of food onto a plate
salad servers4 American English someone whose job is to bring you your food in a restaurantSYN waiter, waitressExamples from the Corpusserver• a silvercakeserver• Thus printing would be controlled by a print server; a fileserver would control loading and saving files.• The facility also houses shared and dedicatedwebhostingservers.• There will be a three-slot workstation, a six-slot workstation or server and a nine-slot server.• House specialties usually showcase a restaurant's strengths, so we asked our server to make some recommendations.• Our server told us about the day's specials.• Details of pricing for the Sparc serverversion will be released when it ships in April.• The first illustration shows a request without an authorizedpassword that is rejected by the server.file/print server• Thus printing would be controlled by a print server; a file server would control loading and saving files.• In the SmartStream scheme, mainframes can be retained as file servers while cheaper Unix boxesassume its traditionaltasks.• So, what makes a good file server?• Significantly, the 601 will be usable in symmetric multiprocessing file servers.• According to Network Appliance, FAServer is the first implementation of a new direction for network file servers called file server appliances.• AppleSearch is a workgroup-based productdesigned to give easyaccess to large documentlibrariesresiding on file servers.• Encina services include two-phase commit, a structuredfile server, a transactionmonitor and client-to-host communications.From Longman Business Dictionaryserverserv‧er /ˈsɜːvəˈsɜːrvər/ (also file server) noun [countable]COMPUTINGa powerful computer used to store large amounts of information and to connect other smaller computers in a NETWORK. The smaller computers are sometimes called CLIENTsThe network kept crashing because it was running on a file server without enough memory.
