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CLIENT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does client mean?
• CLIENT (noun)
The noun CLIENT has 3 senses:
1. a person who seeks the advice of a lawyer
2. someone who pays for goods or services
3. (computer science) any computer that is hooked up to a computer network
Familiarity information: CLIENT used as a noun is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A person who seeks the advice of a lawyer
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("client" is a kind of...):
case (a person requiring professional services)
Domain category:
jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)
Holonyms ("client" is a member of...):
attorney-client relation; lawyer-client relation (the responsibility of a lawyer to act in the best interests of the client)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Someone who pays for goods or services
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
client; customer
Hypernyms ("client" is a kind of...):
consumer (a person who uses goods or services)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "client"):
buyer; emptor; purchaser; vendee (a person who buys)
guest (a customer of a hotel or restaurant etc.)
frequenter; patron (a regular customer)
policyholder (a person who holds an insurance policy; usually, the client in whose name an insurance policy is written)
shopper (someone who visits stores in search of articles to buy)
disburser; expender; spender (someone who spends money to purchase goods or services)
reader; subscriber (someone who contracts to receive and pay for a service or a certain number of issues of a publication)
taker (one who accepts an offer)
warrantee (a customer to whom a warrant or guarantee is given)
john; trick; whoremaster; whoremonger (a prostitute's customer)
Holonyms ("client" is a member of...):
business relation (a relation between different business enterprises)
Sense 3
Meaning:
(computer science) any computer that is hooked up to a computer network
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
Hypernyms ("client" is a kind of...):
computer; computing device; computing machine; data processor; electronic computer; information processing system (a machine for performing calculations automatically)
Domain category:
computer science; computing (the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures)
Holonyms ("client" is a part of...):
computer network ((computer science) a network of computers)
Context examples
From now on, if you work in sales, your best clients will be found outside your base city, requiring a short drive.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
“What do you propose now, Mr. Holmes?” asked our client.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I must, therefore, abandon my client to her fate or I must play this last card.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Gentlemen, my plan is broken up:—what this lawyer and his client say is true: I have been married, and the woman to whom I was married lives!
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Informatics nursing practice includes the development, support, and evaluation of applications, tools, processes, and structures that assist the practice of nurses with the management of data in direct care of patients/clients.
(Informatics Nurse Specialist, NCI Thesaurus)
Within the scope of pediatric nursing practice the child and family are considered the client.
(Pediatric nurse specialist, NCI Thesaurus)
SNX-2112 inhibits Hsp90, which may result in the proteasomal degradation of oncogenic client proteins, including HER2/ERBB2, and the inhibition of tumor cell proliferation.
(Hsp90 Inhibitor SNX-5422 Mesylate, NCI Thesaurus)
Hsp90 inhibitor Hsp990 binds to and inhibits the activity of Hsp90, which may result in the proteasomal degradation of oncogenic client proteins, including HER2/ERBB2, and the inhibition of tumor cell proliferation.
(Hsp90 Inhibitor HSP990, NCI Thesaurus)
Hsp90 inhibitor BIIB028 blocks the binding of oncogenic client proteins to Hsp90, which may result in the proteasomal degradation of these proteins and so the inhibition of tumor cell proliferation.
(Hsp90 Inhibitor BIIB028, NCI Thesaurus)
Hsp90 inhibitor Debio 0932 specifically blocks Hsp90, thereby inhibiting its chaperone function and promoting the degradation of its client proteins, many of which are oncogenic signaling proteins involved in tumor cell proliferation and survival.
(Hsp90 Inhibitor Debio 0932, NCI Thesaurus)
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