Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

newsserver

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: newsserv-er
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A server for newsgroups.

Example Sentences

"Support host names on the right hand side of the ';' in the NEWSSERVER environment variable. If you have NEWSSERVER set to ';foo', then the network address of ``foo will be looked up, and the /etc/services file will be consulted for a ``NeWS service."
"Basically, local newsgroups were setup on a different machine than our USENET gateway, and one has to talk to the rtech newsserver to get USENET, or one of 2 other machines to get different sets of local newsgroups."
"My maximum speed is 200 kb/s when I download over the internet. My newsserver is Newshosting."
"If alt.os.linux.fedora is added, your newsserver isn't perfect but still, well, Okay."

Etymology

From news + server.

Inflected Forms

newsservers (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

newshost

Questions

What does newsserver mean?: A server for newsgroups.
Where does newsserver come from?: From news + server.

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