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Narrator: Today's word is "Server" — noun, pronounced /ˈsɜːvə(r)/, with the stress on "ser".
Narrator: A server is a computer or program that provides data and services to other computers.
Narrator: In plain English, it is the computer that websites run on.
Narrator: It comes from serve plus -er.
Narrator: A common collocation is "web server", which describes a computer delivering web pages.
Narrator: It differs from "client", because the client asks, while the server answers.
Narrator: In a second sense, a server is a waiter, or the player serving in tennis.
Narrator: Computing, cloud services, hospitality and sport all rely on the word.
Narrator: So remember: a server serves requests.
Speaker A: Why is the website down?
Speaker B: The SERVER crashed! Serve plus -er.
Speaker A: Can we restart it?
Speaker B: Already rebooting.
Speaker A: Example sentences?
Speaker B: "The server is overloaded", IT. "Our server brought the menus", a restaurant. "The server won the point", tennis.
Speaker A: Common mistakes?
Speaker B: Spell it with "-er", "server".
Speaker A: Close relatives?
Speaker B: Host is its cousin, backend its twin, and waiter an alternative — yet server keeps its reliable charm!
Speaker B: Let's use "server" in AI prompts — useful for DevOps and monitoring.
Speaker A: How for DevOps?
Speaker B: Set up.
Prompt: Write a basic Nginx server config for a static site with HTTPS.
Speaker A: And monitoring?
Speaker B: Alerts.
Prompt: Alert the team when server CPU stays above ninety percent for five minutes.
Speaker A: Could it help code?
Speaker B: Yes, for APIs.
Prompt: Create a small Express server with one health-check endpoint.
Speaker A: One more?
Speaker B: Errors.
Prompt: Explain server error codes 500, 502 and 503 in plain English.
Server — meaning in Arabic & definition More S courses GL Dictionary