web server
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- noun
- /wɛb ˈsɜrvər/
- Texting
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servidor web
- Be sure to test your web page offline before uploading it to a web server.
- Apache web server
We don't always have a huge budget, so we tend to have our web server being one machine somewhere in a rack.
- We don't always have a huge budget, so we tend to have our web server being one machine somewhere in a rack.
Examples
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Let's set up a small web server and try to load that page.
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The web content is housed on a university-owned web server.
Academic text (2015) -
The answer is really quite simple: Web servers are easier to use and far more powerful.
Academic text (1995) -
So let's try to understand how their web server design works.
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Some schools prefer to store wikis on their own web server.
Academic text (2007) -
When your WordPress site is visited, the web server will query the database to retrieve information.
Blog text (10) -
Creation and maintenance of the Internet site are outsourced and are hosted on a third-party's web server.
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Apache web server software (www.apache.org/) is a great choice for your school's web server.
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Adjusting chillers and air handlers from remote locations through a Web server allows control of uneven cooling, high humidity, and inadequate ventilation.
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A web server stores and delivers website content to users over the internet.
Synonyms
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A computer that lets other computers use files and printers on a network
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Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'web' (the online system) combined with 'server' (a machine that responds to requests) yields a machine or software that serves web content. This follows a common noun+noun compounding pattern found across languages and is therefore immediately inferable by a B1 learner who knows both constituents.
Etymology
The compound noun web server comes from the image of a server, a person who 'serves' food, and the web, meaning the internet. So a web server is like a waiter for websites: it 'serves' web pages to people who ask, which is why the term means a computer or program that gives website content.