What's the difference between server and timeserver?

Server


Definition:

  • (n.) One who serves.
  • (n.) A tray for dishes; a salver.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Instagram is breaking under the weight of Peaches' love for her little grub – and, seeing as she's up the duff again, it will have to migrate to new servers when she has the second.
  • (2) The FBI’s decision to reopen their criminal investigation into Hillary Clinton’s secret email server just 11 days before the election shows how serious this discovery must be,” the RNC chairman, Reince Priebus, said in a statement.
  • (3) In May, Mojang launched Minecraft Realms , a service allowing PC and Mac owners to set up their own private servers for up to 20 friends.
  • (4) Hillary Clinton had the right to delete personal emails from her private server, the US justice department has told a federal court.
  • (5) The bureau seemed obsessed instead with classified material that flowed through a private email server set up by Clinton’s aides.
  • (6) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Trump ‘sways malevolently’ behind Hillary Clinton Instead, he began the night by assembling a group of women in a press conference to revisit alleged sexual assaults by Bill Clinton, before confronting his opponent hardest on her private email server.
  • (7) 4.58pm BST First-set tie-break: Kyrgios 6-4 Nadal* (*denotes server): Kyrgios dabs a backhand wide.
  • (8) Despite guidelines to the contrary, Clinton used mobile devices to conduct official business on her personal email account and private server.
  • (9) Destiny wants to change the way we think about online gaming – whether it succeeds or not will be down to the capability of its server network and whether there is really enough in there to keep gamers coming back.
  • (10) 9.23am GMT Second set: Murray* 3-6, 2-1 Federer (*denotes server): Wow.
  • (11) The DMM acts as an image file server and an image archive device.
  • (12) Serveral ex vivo surgical techniques are described, illustrated and the literature reviewed.
  • (13) Contact Paul Farrell securely using the Signal messaging app on +61 457 262 172 or using the Guardian’s Securedrop server
  • (14) 3.48pm GMT Security Once your phone is hooked up to the company email via the BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) secure network that BlackBerry supplies to businesses, you can use the BlackBerry Balance feature, which separates personal and work functions.
  • (15) First-set tie-break: Kyrgios* 6-5 Nadal (*denotes server): Nerves?
  • (16) The last few months have seen the former secretary of state dogged by a relentless focus over her use of a private email server , dipping favorabillity numbers and the rise of Bernie Sanders, the socialist senator who is challenging her for the Democratic party’s nomination.
  • (17) The BLASTx program, implemented on the National Center for Biotechnology Information server, allows a sensitive search of all putative translations of a nucleotide query sequence against all known proteins in a matter of seconds.
  • (18) Republicans were under pressure not to dwell on Clinton’s use of a private email server as too zealous an attack could come off as partisan.
  • (19) The multimedia file server manager station is built around a PC-AT compatible with a Northern Telecom Meridian SL-1ST digital PBX and a Meridian Mail digital voice messaging system.
  • (20) So really, it could be anyone.” US intelligence believes the Democratic party’s servers were hacked by a group known alternatively as Fancy Bear, APT 29 or Sofacy, which they say was working for the GRU, Russia’s military intelligence .

Timeserver


Definition:

  • (n.) One who adapts his opinions and manners to the times; one who obsequiously compiles with the ruling power; -- now used only in a bad sense.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The former World Bank economist is widely seen as a loyal timeserver, whose priority has been to maintain the Congress grip on power until Rahul Gandhi , a former management consultant still widely seen as yet to prove his political mettle, was ready to take what some see as his birthright.
  • (2) The files record the party leader John Gollan observing that he would not have done much to dissuade many of those who broke with the party after Hungary from leaving – “except Christopher Hill.” And no matter how irritating some of the party’s timeservers found Hobsbawm, smarter figures like Gollan always grasped that the historian was an asset whom they would be foolish to lose.