cohost
verb
- act as a host, with a partner
noun
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noun
Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Latin co-der. English co- Proto-Indo-European *gʰóstis Proto-Indo-European *pótis Proto-Indo-European *gʰóstipotis Proto-Italic *hostipotis Latin hospes Old French ostebor. Middle English hoste English host English cohost From co- + host.
- A joint host alongside another (compare costar).
“A morning TV anchor in Oklahoma apologized a day after likening her black cohost to a gorilla.”
“It’s exactly what you’d expect from the cohosts of “Door, Bumper, Clear,” the weekly podcast featuring Griffin, Majors and Kraft, along with host Casey Boat and producer Jason Schultz, with the podcast produced by Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s Dirty Mo Media company. It’s this kind of candor that has made DBC so popular with an almost cultlike following.”
verb
Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Latin co-der. English co- Proto-Indo-European *gʰóstis Proto-Indo-European *pótis Proto-Indo-European *gʰóstipotis Proto-Italic *hostipotis Latin hospes Old French ostebor. Middle English hoste English host English cohost From co- + host.
- To act as a joint host.
- To store data or applications on a shared server (as in web hosting).
“Generally speaking, in a shared computing system, such as a server farm shared by multiple cohosted Web sites, common resources can be categorized into two different types: those shared in time and those shared in space.”
“If you choose to cohost specific components on the same server (e.g., VMM server and database), please keep in mind that each has its own performance characteristics and resource requirements.”