client
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklaɪ.ənt/
rhymes: -aɪənt
Forms: form: clients
head_nr: 1
Etymology: From Middle English client, from Anglo-Norman clyent, Old French client, from Latin cliēns, akin to clinare (“to lean”).
Senses: head_nr: 2
glosses: A customer, a buyer or receiver of goods or services.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
head_nr: 2
glosses: The role of a computer application or system that requests and/or consumes the services provided by another having the role of server.
examples: text: I corralled the judge, and we started off across the fields[…]. And thus we came by a circuitous route to Mohair,[…]. My client welcomed the judge […] and they disappeared together into the Ethiopian card-room, which was filled with the assegais and exclamation point shields Mr. Cooke had had made at the sawmill at Beaverton.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
head_nr: 2
glosses: A person who receives help or services from a professional such as a lawyer or accountant.
topics: law
head_nr: 2
glosses: A person who employs or retains an attorney to represent him or her in any legal matter, or one who merely divulges confidential matters to an attorney while pursuing professional assistance without subsequently retaining the attorney.
examples: text: The nomen belonged to all members of a gens and to all those attached to it (women, clients, and freedmen included).
ref: 1945, E[lizabeth] G[idley] Withycombe, “Introduction”, in The Oxford Dictionary of English Christian Names, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page xv:
head_nr: 2
glosses: In ancient Rome, retainers and followers associated with a gens.
examples: text: A third preliminary comment deals explicitly with the relations between clients and superpowers.
ref: 1989, Edward A. Kolodziej, Roger E. Kanet, Limits of Soviet Power, page 95:
head_nr: 2
glosses: Ellipsis of client state.
Synonyms: sense: customer
word: buyer
sense: customer
word: customer
sense: customer
word: patron
sense: customer
word: purchaser
Hyponyms: sense: Hyponyms of client (computing)
word: fat client
sense: Hyponyms of client (computing)
word: heavy client
sense: Hyponyms of client (computing)
word: hybrid client
sense: Hyponyms of client (computing)
word: lean client
sense: Hyponyms of client (computing)
word: rich client
sense: Hyponyms of client (computing)
word: RTE client
sense: Hyponyms of client (computing)
word: slim client
sense: Hyponyms of client (computing)
word: thick client
sense: Hyponyms of client (computing)
word: thin client
sense: Hyponyms of client (computing)
word: ultra-thin client
sense: Hyponyms of client (computing)
word: Web client
sense: Hyponyms of client (computing)
word: zero client
sense: Hyponyms of client (computing)
word: zombie client
Derived terms: word: cliency
word: clientage
word: cliental
word: clientdom
word: cliented
word: clientess
word: clienthood
word: clientish
word: clientism
word: clientitis
word: clientless
word: clientlike
word: cliently
word: clientness
word: clientship
word: direct client contact
word: multiclient
word: nonclient
word: servent
sense: Compound words
word: client-only
sense: Compound words
word: client-server
sense: Compound words
word: client-side
sense: Compound words
word: clientworthy
sense: Expressions
word: attorney-client privilege
sense: Expressions
word: client account
sense: Expressions
word: client base
sense: Expressions
word: client king
sense: Expressions
word: client service
sense: Expressions
word: client state
sense: Expressions
word: collaborative client
sense: Expressions
word: email client
sense: Expressions
word: hip-pocket client
sense: Expressions
word: solicitor-client privilege
Related terms: clientele
climate
cline
server