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host
host 1. An organism whose body provides nourishment and shelter for a parasite (see
parasitism) or a
parasitoid. A
definitive (or
primary)
host is one in which an animal parasite becomes sexually mature; an
intermediate (or
secondary)
host is one in which the parasite passes the larval or asexual stages of its life cycle.
2. An organism that lives in close association with an inquiline (see
inquilinism).
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HOSTS Mentor's Contribution to Impact Student Learning in Wilson County Elementary Schools, North Carolina; Anonymous Donation to Benefit Academic Achievement for Hundreds of Local Students; Mentoring Makes A Difference to Children and Adults.
PR Newswire; 7/1/2002; 700+ words
; WILSON, N.C. -- HOSTS Learning, in cooperation with Wilson...Partnership (WEP), announced today a HOSTS (Help One Student To Succeed) learning...s donation consisted of 160 books for HOSTS students throughout the county. Second...
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HOST-RANGE EVOLUTION: ADAPTATION AND TRADE-OFFS IN FITNESS OF MITES ON ALTERNATIVE HOSTS.
Magazine article from: Ecology; 2/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...tolerate the poor-quality host when they were reverted to the favorable host for several generations...fitness on alternative hosts among herbivorous spider...is believed that this host-range limitation may...fitness on alternative hosts (Fox and Morrow 1981...
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Host Marriott Corporation Responds to Limited Below-Market Tender Offer.
PR Newswire; 3/19/1999; 700+ words
; ...BETHESDA, Md., March 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Host Marriott Corporation (NYSE: HMT) announced...Inc. to purchase shares of common stock of Host Marriott and units of limited partnership interest in Host Marriott, L.P. at a price per share and...
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HOSTS Learning Honors College Scholarship; Rita Lynn Shelly of Arkansas Earns Education Scholarship for Her Dedication As a HOSTS Mentor.
PR Newswire; 2/26/2002; 700+ words
; ...VANCOUVER, Wash. and NEWPORT, Ark. -- HOSTS Learning, a provider of structured academic...active as either a student or mentor in HOSTS (Help One Student To Succeed.) Five...000. Shelley has volunteered in the HOSTS Language Arts program at Gibbs Albright...
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Host Marriott Corporation Announces Special Cash or Stock Election Dividend, Spinoff of Crestline Capital Corporation and Partnership Approval to Acquire Eight Public Limited Hotel Partnerships (24 Full-Service Marriott Hotels).
PR Newswire; 12/18/1998; 700+ words
; BETHESDA, Md., Dec. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Host Marriott Corporation (NYSE: HMT) announced...dividend payable in either cash or common stock of Host Marriott, at the election of each Host Marriott stockholder, and a dividend of shares...
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Parental host plant affects offspring life histories in a seed beetle.
Magazine article from: Ecology; 3/1/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...speciation. For example, host experience often influences...Lewis 1993), and if host experience also influences...larval performance on these hosts, then non-genetic correlations...their ability to use these hosts (representing either...genetic differentiation or host-associated genetic ...
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HOST MARRIOTT ISSUES SPECIAL DIVIDEND, COMPLETING SPLIT INTO TWO COMPANIES
PR Newswire; 1/2/1996; 700+ words
; ...BETHESDA, Md., Jan. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Host Marriott Corporation (NYSE: HMT) announced...first announced in August 1995, dividing Host Marriott into two companies. As a result...December 22, 1995 are receiving one share of Host Marriott Services Corporation for every...
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Royal Host REIT Announces Results of Substantial Issuer Bid for Its Trust Units.(Financial report)
News Wire article from: Canadian Corporate News; 3/27/2008; 700+ words
; ...2008 (Marketwire via COMTEX) -- Royal Host Real Estate Investment Trust (TSX:RYL...DB.C) (TSX:RYL.DB.D) ( Royal Host ) today announced that it will purchase...the purchase of fractional shares. Royal Host and Computershare Investor Services Inc...
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Host identification for strophitus undulatus (Bivalvia: Unionidae), the creeper, in the upper Susquehanna River basin, Pennsylvania
Magazine article from: The American Midland Naturalist; 1/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...spotted newt). Ten hosts were previously unknown...without a potential host. Recovery of juveniles...others using only a few host species, often closely...Inappropriate hosts shed attached glochidia...without the use of a host (Lefevre and Curtis...undulates uses fish hosts (Baker, ...
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C I Host Enters Unprecedented Private Label Partnership with CompUSA to Sell Web Hosting in Retail Stores Partnership; New Stores Mark Start of C I Host Retail Division; Launch Will Involve 24 Stores; to be in All 227 Stores By Early 2003.
PR Newswire; 11/21/2002; 700+ words
; ...Through a ground-breaking partnership, C I Host, a leader in the Web hosting and Internet...computer products in the country. C I Host's Web hosting services and packaged Web...CompUSA Web Design/Hosting" Powered by C I Host. "We are extremely pleased to forge this...
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host
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Body
host The host is the consecrated bread of the Eucharist; its Latin root, ‘...later Middle Ages, especially the twelfth century, the notion that the host is the body of Christ, developed in the doctrine of transubstantiation...
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Graft-vs.-Host Disease
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Cancer
Graft-vs.-host disease Description Graft-vs.-host disease is a response by the immune system that occurs when...that contain enough immune cells to cause graft-vs.-host disease are the blood and the bone marrow. Blood transfusions...
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General Host Corporation
Book article from: International Directory of Company Histories
General Host Corporation Metro Center One Station Place...Gift, Novelty and Souvenir Shops General Host Corporation owns and operates Frank...The company that became known as General Host, however, spent its first 50 years managing...
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Host America Corporation
Book article from: International Directory of Company Histories
Host America Corporation 2 Broadway Hamden, Connecticut...Other Services to Buildings and Dwellings Host America Corporation operates in two different...electrical services. The former consists of Host America Business Dining, which runs foodservice...
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host computer
Book article from: A Dictionary of Computing
host computer ( host ) 1. A computer that is attached to a network and provides services other...acting as a store-and-forward processor or communication switch. Host computers range in size from small microcomputers to large time-sharing...
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