Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

newshost

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: new-shost
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A host of a newsgroup.

Example Sentences

"# If you aren't running a distributed news system (nntpd & rrn, usually), # leave NEWSHOST blank. Else set it to the name of the host from which you # can rcp a copy of the active file. NEWSHOST="
"After installing this version, I want to bounce news that is received via uucp to my secondary newshosts."
"I have an ELISP (emacs lisp) program that uses a news-reader (GNUS) and tries to connect out to a newshost server via NNTP."
"The VLF have just noticed that the root post has been erased from the comp.os.vms archives on several newshosts - so it goes, so it goes, the consciousness and conscience of the VLF will always be repaired."

Etymology

From news + host.

Inflected Forms

newshosts (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

newshosting newsserver

Questions

What does newshost mean?: A host of a newsgroup.
Where does newshost come from?: From news + host.

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