servant

In CORBA, it refers to the actual CPU and memory resources chosen to execute an object. The servant, which is known only to the server, follows policies set in the Portable Object Adapter (POA). See POA and CORBA.

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Servant

See also Butler.

Abigail

helpmeet of King David; traditional name for hand-maiden. [O.T.: I Samuel 25]

Albert

popular servant’s name: assistant, manservant, page-boy. [Br. Lit.: Loving; By The Pricking of My Thumbs; A Damsel in Distress]

Brighella

prototype of interfering servant; meddles and gossips. [Ital. Drama: Walsh Classical, 62]

Despina

her stratagems control and resolve the plot. [Ital. Opera: Mozart, Cosi fan tutte, Scholes, 259]

Figaro

valet who outwits everyone by his cunning. [Fr. Lit.: Marriage of Figaro]

Friday

young Indian rescued by Crusoe and kept as servant and companion. [Br. Lit.: Robinson Crusoe]

Ganymede

mortal lad, taken by Zeus to be cupbearer to the gods. [Gk. Myth.: Howe, 106]

golem

automaton homunculus performs duties not permissible for Jews. [Jew. Legend: Jobes, 674]

Hazel

meddling maid in the Baxter house. [TV and Comics: Terrace, I, 343]

Hebe

cupbearer to the gods; succeeded by Ganymede. [Gk. Myth.: Zimmerman, 117]

Ithamore

purchased by Barabas to betray Governor of Malta. [Br. Drama: The Jew of Malta]

Jeeves

stereotypical English valet of Wodehouse stories. [Brit. Lit.: NCE, 2997]

Lichas Hercules’

attendant; unknowingly delivers poisoned robe to him. [Rom. Lit.: Metamorphoses]

Notburga, St. Bavarian

patroness of domestics; beneficent, though poor. [Christian Hagiog.: Attwater, 257]

Passepartout

Phileas Fogg’s rash valet. [Fr. Lit.: Around the World in Eighty Days]

Thing Addams

family servant; a disembodied right hand. [TV: “The Addams Family” in Terrace, I, 29]

Xanthias

carries Bacchus’s heavy bundles. [Gk. Lit.: The Frogs]

Zita, St.

devout and generous domestic; patron saint. [Christian Hagiog.: Attwater, 348]

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