client
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ənt noun
1.
a person or group that uses the professional advice or services of a lawyer, accountant, advertising agency, architect, etc.
2.
a person who is receiving the benefits, services, etc., of a social welfare agency, a government bureau, etc.
3.
a customer.
4.
anyone under the patronage of another; a dependent.
5.
Computers. a workstation on a network that gains access to central data files, programs, and peripheral devices through a server.
adjective
8.
being a regular customer: a client company.
9.
economically, and often militarily, dependent upon a more prosperous, more powerful nation.
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Client
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| the offspring of a zebra and a donkey. |
Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English < Latin client-, stem of cliēns person seeking the protection or influence of someone powerful; perhaps akin to clīnāre to bend (see incline)
1350–1400; Middle English < Latin client-, stem of cliēns person seeking the protection or influence of someone powerful; perhaps akin to clīnāre to bend (see incline)
Related forms
non·cli·ent, adjective
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client (ˈklaɪənt) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a person, company, etc, that seeks the advice of a professional man or woman |
| 2. | a customer |
| 3. | a person who is registered with or receiving services or financial aid from a welfare agency |
| 4. | computing a program or work station that requests data or information from a server |
| 5. | a person depending on another's patronage |
| [C14: from Latin cliēns retainer, dependant; related to Latin clīnāre to lean] | |
| cliental | |
| —adj | |
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Word Origin & History
client
1393, from Anglo-Fr. clyent, from L. cliens (acc. clientem) "follower, retainer," perhaps a var. of prp. of cluere "listen, follow, obey" (see listen); or from clinare "to incline, bend," from suffixed form of PIE base *klei- "to lean" (see
lean (v.)). The ground sense is of one who leans on another for protection. In ancient Rome, a plebian under protection of a patrician (in this relationship called patronus, see patron), originally in Eng. "a lawyer's customer," by c.1600 extended to any customer.
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Science Dictionary
| client (klī'ənt) Pronunciation Key
A program that runs on a personal computer or workstation connected to a computer network and requests information from a file server. |
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Computing Dictionary
client definition
programmingA computer system or process that requests a service of another computer system or process (a "server") using some kind of protocol and accepts the server's responses. A client is part of a client-server software architecture.
For example, a workstation requesting the contents of a file from a file server is a client of the file server.
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Example sentences
She provides tactical direction, cultivates client relationships, business alliances and guides the customer experience.
Allocations often used to be based on past commissions paid by a client.
Every quote from a supposed client is perfectly crafted to bring one's blood to a boil.
On one end of the spectrum, for example, was a client who owned a professional services firm.
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