servers
USSUR-vurz/ˈsɝvɚz/UKSUR-vuhz/ˈsɜːvəz/
- 1Plural of server.
The data center cooled its banks of servers around the clock.
The restaurant hired extra servers for the holiday rush.
Note
A regular plural that does a surprising amount of work. The same -s covers programs that answer requests and the machines that run them. It also covers members-only online community spaces, waiters and waitresses alike, players serving the ball, and a priest's attendants at the Eucharist. Nothing in the form tells them apart, so the surrounding words do: racks and data centers on one side, tables and tips on another.
servers is a form of server
server, noun: A person who takes orders and brings food and drinks to customers in a restaurant. Full entry
- Forms
- serverservers plural
- Spelling
- server → servers: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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