server
     n 1: a person whose occupation is to serve at table (as in a
          restaurant) [syn: {waiter}]
     2: (court games) the player who serves to start a point
     3: (computer science) a computer that provides client stations
        with access to files and printers as shared resources to a
        computer network [syn: {host}]
     4: utensil used in serving food or drink
Source: WordNet® 2.0

server n. A kind of {daemon} that performs a service for the requester
   and which often runs on a computer other than the one on which the
   requestor/client runs. A particularly common term on the Internet, which
   is rife with `web servers', `name servers', `domain servers', `news
   servers', `finger servers', and the like.


Source: The Jargon File