survive

v 1: continue to live, endure or last; "We went without water and

food for 3 days"; "The legend of Elvis lives on"; "These

superstitions survive in the backwaters of America"

[syn: {last}, {live}, {live on}, {go}, {endure}, {hold

up}, {hold out}]

2: continue in existence after (an adversity, etc.); "He

survived the cancer against all odds" [syn: {pull through},

{come through}, {make it}] [ant: {succumb}]

3: stay alive; survive; "he could barely exist on such a low

wage" [syn: {exist}, {live}, {subsist}]

4: live longer than; "She outlived her husband by many years"

[syn: {outlive}, {outlast}]

service

Work performed (or offered) by a

{server}. This may mean simply serving simple requests for

data to be sent or stored (as with {file servers}, {gopher} or

{http} servers, {e-mail} servers, {finger} servers, {SQL}

servers, etc.); or it may be more complex work, such as that

of {irc} servers, print servers, {X Windows} servers, or

process servers.

E.g. "Access to the finger {service} is restricted to the

local {subnet}, for security reasons".

(1997-09-11)