serve
服务,服务于,服役,服用
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Definitions
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served, serv·ing.
- : to act as a servant.
- : to wait on table, as a waiter.
- : to offer or have a meal or refreshments available, as for patrons or guests: Come early, we're serving at six.
- : to offer or distribute a portion or portions of food or a beverage, as a host or hostess: It was her turn to serve at the faculty tea.
- : to render assistance; be of use; help.
- : to go through a term of service, do duty as a soldier, sailor, senator, juror, etc.
- : to have definite use: This cup will serve as a sugar bowl.
- : to answer the purpose: That will serve to explain my actions.
- : to put the ball or shuttlecock in play with a stroke, swing, or hit.
- : to be favorable, suitable, or convenient, as weather or time.
- : Ecclesiastical. to act as a server.
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served, serv·ing.
- : to be in the service of; work for.
- : to be useful or of service to; help.
- : to go through.
- : to render active service to.
- : to render obedience or homage to.
- : to perform the duties of: to serve his mayoralty.
- : to answer the requirements of; suffice: This will serve our needs for the moment.
- : to contribute to; promote: to serve a cause.
- : to wait upon at table; act as a waiter or waitress to.
- : to carry and distribute to a patron or a specific table, as a waiter or waitress.
- : to act as a host or hostess in offering a portion of food or drink: May I serve you with some tea and cake?
- : to act as a host or hostess in offering or distributing to another: They served tea and cake to their guests.
- : to provide with a regular or continuous supply of something.
- : to put in play.
- : to treat in a specified manner: That served him ill.
- : Law. to make legal delivery of.to present with a writ.
- : to gratify.
- : to mate with; service.
- : to operate or keep in action.
- : Nautical. to wrap tightly with small stuff, keeping the turns as close together as possible.
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- : the act, manner, or right of serving, as in tennis.
Phrases
- serve a purpose
- serve one right
- serve time
- serve up
- break someone's serve
- first come, first served
- hand to on a silver platter (serve up on a plate)
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
Logan and I seemed to be good teammates—he was scratching the surface of what would later be a nasty serve, and I liked to relive my baseball-playing glory days by diving for a loose ball whenever possible.
Nadal produced eight winners and drew 17 errors from Djokovic on the serve plus one.
First, when serving, he’s winning the point on his first shot after the serve, a term that in recent years has come to be called “serve plus one.”
Nadal’s opponents can’t seem to do the same thing to him with their serve plus one.
When Djokovic was serving, he hit six winners and drew only a single error from Nadal using his serve plus one.
Placed in drinking water, fluoride can serve people who otherwise have poor access to dental care.
Real Housewives of New Jersey star Teresa Giudice turned herself in to serve a 15-month sentence for bankruptcy fraud.
Serve with the warm sauce and your choice of ice cream, whipped cream, or yogurt.
Krivov was sentenced to serve four years at a general regime penal colony for his fight for freedom and human rights.
But as we are seeing all over the world, one can serve the other.
These Rules (leaving out the Tenor) serves for five bells; and leaving out the fifth and Tenor, they serve for four bells.
She had carried the baby over to Juana's and left her there, that she might be free to serve the Father's supper.
He shall serve among great men, and appear before the governor.
There are four general forms of emphasis which serve as indications of the characteristics of expression.
The lower class were idle and lazy, and willing to serve any sovereign who appealed to them by ostentation.