Definition of Hosting

1. n. An encounter; a battle.

Definition of Hosting

1. Verb. (present participle of host) ¹

2. Noun. (computing) Running and maintaining a computer system on someone's behalf. ¹

3. Noun. (obsolete) A battle. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Hosting

1. host [v] - See also: host

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hosting

hosties
hostile
hostile expedition
hostile fire
hostile takeover
hostile takeovers
hostile witness
hostile witnesses
hostilely
hostiles
hostilities
hostility
hostilize
hostilized
hostilizing
hosting (current term)
hostings
hostis humani generis
hostler
hostlers
hostless
hostly
hostmask
hostmasks
hostmaster
hostmasters
hostname
hostnames
hostries
hostry

Literary usage of Hosting

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Celtic Scotland: A History of Ancient Alban by William Forbes Skene (1880)
"... or hosting still further illustrate the relations between the king and the chief of a sept. They are contained in the Book of ..."

2. The English Poets: Selections with Critical Introductions by Thomas Humphry Ward (1918)
"... THE hosting OF THE FIENDS [From The Ring given to Venus] And then swept onward through the night A babbling crowd in raiment bright, Wherein none ..."

3. A Treasury of Irish Poetry in the English Tongue by Stopford Augustus Brooke, Thomas William Rolleston (1900)
"... with a memoir and an exposition of Blake's philosophy (Quaritch). THE hosting OF THE SIDHE THE host is riding from Knocknarea And over the grave of ..."

4. Strategy Selection For The Decommissioning Of Nuclear Facilities: Seminar by Allan Duncan, OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (2004)
"... SOME EXPECTATIONS FROM EUROPEAN MUNICIPALITIES hosting NUCLEAR FACILITIES Philip Moding Secretary of the municipalities of Sweden hosting NPPs (KSO), ..."

5. The English Poets: Selections with Critical Introductions by Various Writers by Thomas Humphry Ward (1918)
"... THE hosting OF THE FIENDS [From The Ring given to Venus] And then swept onward through the night A babbling crowd in raiment bright, Wherein none ..."

6. State Papers by Great Britain Record Commission (1834)
"... in a mayne hosting, with the hole power of this Your Graces Englyshe pale, of the Lordes Spirituall and Temporall, judges, ..."

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