Peer vs. Host — What's the Difference?

To look intently, searchingly, or with difficulty.

One who receives or entertains guests in a social or official capacity.

To be partially visible; show

A person who manages an inn or hotel.

A person who has equal standing with another or others, as in rank, class, or age

One that furnishes facilities and resources for a function or event

A nobleman.

The emcee or interviewer on a radio or television program.

A man who holds a peerage by descent or appointment.

An organism on which or in which another organism lives.

A computer participating in a peer-to-peer network.

A cell that has been infected by a virus or other infective agent.

(Archaic) A companion; a fellow

(Medicine) The recipient of a transplanted tissue or organ.

(intransitive) To look with difficulty, or as if searching for something.

A computer or other device providing data or services that a remote computer can access by means of a network or modem.

To come in sight; to appear.

A computer that is connected to a TCP/IP network such as the internet.

To make equal in rank.

An army.

(Internet) To carry communications traffic terminating on one's own network on an equivalency basis to and from another network, usually without charge or payment. Contrast with transit where one pays another network provider to carry one's traffic.

A great number; a multitude.

A look; a glance.

The consecrated bread or wafer of the Eucharist.

Somebody who is, or something that is, at a level or of a value equal (to that of something else).

To serve as host to or at

Someone who is approximately the same age (as someone else).

To provide software that offers data or services, hardware, or both over a computer network.

A noble with a title, i.e., a peerage, and in times past, with certain rights and privileges not enjoyed by commoners.

One which receives or entertains a guest, socially, commercially, or officially.

A comrade; a companion; an associate.

One that provides a facility for an event.

(informal) Someone who pees, someone who urinates.

A person or organization responsible for running an event.

To come in sight; to appear.

A moderator or master of ceremonies for a performance.

To look narrowly or curiously or intently; to peep; as, the peering day.

Any computer attached to a network.

To make equal in rank.

(ecology) A cell or organism which harbors another organism or biological entity, usually a parasite.

To be, or to assume to be, equal.

An organism bearing certain genetic material, with respect to its cells.

One of the same rank, quality, endowments, character, etc.; an equal; a match; a mate.

A paid male companion offering conversation and in some cases sex, as in certain types of bar in Japan.

A comrade; a companion; a fellow; an associate.

A multitude of people arrayed as an army; used also in religious senses, as: Heavenly host (of angels)

A nobleman; a member of one of the five degrees of the British nobility, namely, duke, marquis, earl, viscount, baron; as, a peer of the realm.

A large number of items; a large inventory.

A person who is of equal standing with another in a group

(Christianity) The consecrated bread of the Eucharist.

A nobleman (duke or marquis or earl or viscount or baron) who is a member of the British peerage

To perform the role of a host.

Look searchingly;

To lodge at an inn.

To run software made available to a remote user or process.

The consecrated wafer, believed to be the body of Christ, which in the Mass is offered as a sacrifice; also, the bread before consecration.

An army; a number of men gathered for war.

Any great number or multitude; a throng.

One who receives or entertains another, whether gratuitously or for compensation; one from whom another receives food, lodging, or entertainment; a landlord.

Any animal or plant affording lodgment or subsistence to a parasitic or commensal organism. Thus a tree is a host of an air plant growing upon it.

To give entertainment to.

To lodge at an inn; to take up entertainment.

A person who invites guests to a social event (such as a party in his or her own home) and who is responsible for them while they are there

A vast multitude

An animal or plant that nourishes and supports a parasite; the host does not benefit and is often harmed by the association

A person who acts as host at formal occasions (makes an introductory speech and introduces other speakers)

Archaic terms for army

Any organization that provides resources and facilities for a function or event;

(medicine) recipient of transplanted tissue or organ from a donor

The owner or manager of an inn

A technical name for the bread used in the service of Mass or Holy Communion

(computer science) a computer that provides client stations with access to files and printers as shared resources to a computer network

Be the host of or for;