Noun: server
| Singular | server |
| Plural | servers |
Sample Sentences
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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. [2013 June 14, Jonathan Freedland, “Obama's once hip brand is now tainted”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 1, page 18:]
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Please take a look at my log its completely going haywire… My server is changing the admin name and doesn’t store any created channels. [2020 August 11, EasyCompZeeland, “My server is changing the admin name and doesn’t store any created channels… out of the blue”, in Official TeamSpeak Community Forum, TeamSpeak Server:]
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Discord gives you the power to create an invite-only home for your friends or community - a place where you can talk, hang out, and have fun. We call these special places - servers [...] [2020, “Beginner's Guide to Discord”, in Discord Help Center:]
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Basically like how there is an emoji button for statuses and bios but make them for certain settings such as channel names or descriptions. This little QOL(quality of life) change would add a slightly faster way of navigating through channels and add a nicer more organized appearance to some servers. [2024 June 30, Narunzo, “I can't find a decent place where I can post a suggestion and it would be seen by staff in Guilded so I'm posting my suggestion here”, in Reddit, r/guilded:]
Nouns inflected like server
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English servere, equivalent to serve + -er. See: Middle English Nouns '
servere'.
Verbs referencing "server"
Dutch Nouns
server, Italian Nouns
server, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns
server, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns
server, Finnish Nouns
serveri, Russian Nouns
сервер, Ukrainian Nouns
сервер, Hungarian Nouns
szerver, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns
sørvar.