guest vs node what difference
what is difference between guest and node
English
Etymology
From Middle English gest, from Old Norse gestr, which replaced or was merged with Old English ġiest, both from Proto-Germanic *gastiz, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰóstis (“stranger, guest, host, someone with whom one has reciprocal duties of hospitality”). Cognate with German Gast (“guest”). Doublet of host, from Latin.
Pronunciation
- enPR: gĕst, IPA(key): /ɡɛst/
- Rhymes: -ɛst
- Homophone: guessed
Noun
guest (plural guests)
- A recipient of hospitality, especially someone staying by invitation at the house of another.
- A patron or customer in a hotel etc.
- An invited visitor or performer to an institution or to a broadcast.
- (computing) A user given temporary access to a system despite not having an account of their own.
- (zoology) Any insect that lives in the nest of another without compulsion and usually not as a parasite.
- (zoology) An inquiline.
Translations
Verb
guest (third-person singular simple present guests, present participle guesting, simple past and past participle guested)
- (intransitive) to appear as a guest, especially on a broadcast
- (intransitive) as a musician, to play as a guest, providing an instrument that a band/orchestra does not normally have in its line up (for instance, percussion in a string band)
- (transitive, obsolete) To receive or entertain hospitably.
- 1608, Josuah Sylvester, Du Bartas his divine weekes and workes
- Two Angels sent Two Heav’nly Scowts the Lord to Sodom sent ; downe , received and guested
- 1608, Josuah Sylvester, Du Bartas his divine weekes and workes
Translations
Derived terms
Anagrams
- tegus
English
Etymology
From Middle English node, borrowed from Latin nōdus. Doublet of knot and nodus.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -əʊd
Noun
node (plural nodes)
- A knot, knob, protuberance or swelling.
- (astronomy) The point where the orbit of a planet, as viewed from the Sun, intersects the ecliptic. The ascending and descending nodes refer respectively to the points where the planet moves from South to North and N to S; their respective symbols are ☊ and ☋.
- (botany) A leaf node.
- (networking) A computer or other device attached to a network.
- (engineering) The point at which the lines of a funicular machine meet from different angular directions; — called also knot.
- (geometry) The point at which a curve crosses itself, being a double point of the curve. See crunode and acnode.
- (geometry) A similar point on a surface, where there is more than one tangent-plane.
- (graph theory) A vertex or a leaf in a graph of a network, or other element in a data structure.
- (medicine) A hard concretion or incrustation which forms upon bones attacked with rheumatism, gout, or syphilis; sometimes also, a swelling in the neighborhood of a joint.
- (physics) A point along a standing wave where the wave has minimal amplitude.
- (rare) The knot, intrigue, or plot of a dramatic work.
- (technical) A hole in the gnomon of a sundial, through which passes the ray of light which marks the hour of the day, the parallels of the Sun’s declination, his place in the ecliptic, etc.
- (computational linguistics) The word of interest in a KWIC, surrounded by left and right cotexts.
Synonyms
- (computer networking): host
- (graph theory): vertex
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
- → Irish: nód
Translations
See also
- neurode
References
- node on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- Deno, Deon, Done, Endo, done, endo, endo-, oden, onde, oned
Danish
Noun
node c (singular definite noden, plural indefinite noder)
- (music) note
Dutch
Pronunciation
Noun
node
- (archaic) Dative singular form of nood
Japanese
Romanization
node
- Rōmaji transcription of ので
Latin
Noun
nōde
- vocative singular of nōdus
Middle English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin nōdus. Doublet of knotte.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈnɔːd(ə)/
Noun
node (plural nodez)
- (medicine, Late Middle English) lump, swelling
- (rare, Late Middle English) knot, tie
Descendants
- English: node
- → Irish: nód
References
- “nōde, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-23.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology 1
From Latin nodus (“knot”). Akin to English node.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /²nuː.də/ (example of pronunciation)
Noun
node m (definite singular noden, indefinite plural nodar, definite plural nodane)
- a node
Etymology 2
From Old Norse hnoða.
Alternative forms
- noda
Noun
node n (definite singular nodet, indefinite plural node, definite plural noda)
- Synonym of nyste
Etymology 3
Verb
node (present tense noder, past tense nodde, past participle nodd/nodt, passive infinitive nodast, present participle nodande, imperative nod)
- Synonym of neia
References
- “node” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.