{
  "id": "hosting.service",
  "term": "hosting",
  "sense": "service",
  "pos": "verb",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 8,
  "arena": "lexicon_entry",
  "domain": "general",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "to give a place where an item can be",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "space.extent",
      "give.transfer"
    ],
    "interaction": "Give a place so an item can be.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "shared location",
      "temporary provision"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Internet Archive preserves 70 petabytes of web data in climate-controlled bunkers near San Francisco.",
      "domain": "computing"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Svalbard Global Seed Vault stores over 1.2 million seed samples in permafrost beneath the Arctic tundra.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "A human liver holds hepatitis B virus particles for decades without degrading them.",
      "domain": "biology"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "host",
    "hosted",
    "hosting",
    "hosts"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-hosting.service"
}