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HOST/HOSTESS

Specialty Definition: HOST/HOSTESS

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Occupations

Greets guests arriving at country club, catered social function, or other gathering place. Introduces guests and suggests planned activities, such as dancing or games. Gives directions to personnel engaged in serving of refreshments. May plan menus and supervise activities of food-service workers. May plan and participate in social activities, games, and sports, depending on nature of establishment or function. May deposit or pick up guests at railway station, home, or other location as directed. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: HOST/HOSTESS

Specialty definitions using "HOST/HOSTESS": game show host/hostessSHOW HOST/HOSTESStalk show host/hostess. (references)

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Usage Frequency: HOST/HOSTESS

"HOST/HOSTESS" is generally used as an unclassified items -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "HOST/HOSTESS" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Unclassified Items100%3202,518

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Anagrams: HOST/HOSTESS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "/-e-h-h-o-o-s-s-s-s-t-t"

-4 letters: hotshots, soothest.

-5 letters: hostess, hotshot, ostoses, soothes, tootses.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: HOST/HOSTESS


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

48 4F 53 54 2F 48 4F 53 54 45 53 53

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001000 01001111 01010011 01010100 00101111 01001000 01001111 01010011 01010100 01000101 01010011 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#72 &#79 &#83 &#84 &#47 &#72 &#79 &#83 &#84 &#69 &#83 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0048 004F 0053 0054 002F 0048 004F 0053 0054 0045 0053 0053

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

424953541742495354395353

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Usage Frequency
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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