client : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: client	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for client
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
client n a person who seeks the advice of a lawyer someone who pays for goods or services Synonym(s): customer, client (computer science) any computer that is hooked up to a computer network Synonym(s): node, client, guest
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Client \Cli"ent\, n. [L. cliens, -emtis, for cluens, one who hears (in relation to his protector), a client, fr. L. cluere to be named or called; akin to Gr. [?] to hear, Skr. [87]ry, and E. loud: cf. F. client. See {Loud}.] 1. (Rom. Antiq.) A citizen who put himself under the protection of a man of distinction and influence, who was called his patron. 2. A dependent; one under the protection of another. I do think they are your friends and clients, And fearful to disturb you. --B. Jonson. 3. (Law) One who consults a legal adviser, or submits his cause to his management.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
client A 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. (1997-10-27)