serve
IPA: sˈɝv
noun
- (sports) An act of putting the ball or shuttlecock in play in various games.
- (chiefly Australia) A portion of food or drink, a serving.
- (gay slang and African-American Vernacular) An impressive presentation (especially of a person's appearance).
verb
- (personal) To provide a service (or, by extension, a product, especially food or drink).
- (transitive) To be a formal servant for (a god or deity); to worship in an official capacity.
- (transitive) To be a servant for; to work for, to be employed by.
- (transitive) To wait upon (someone) at table; to set food and drink in front of, to help (someone) to food, meals etc.
- (intransitive) To be a servant or worker; to perform the duties of a servant or employee; to render service.
- (transitive) To set down (food or drink) on the table to be eaten; to bring (food, drink) to a person.
- (transitive, archaic) To treat (someone) in a given manner.
- (transitive, archaic) To be suitor to; to be the lover of.
- To be effective.
- (transitive) To be useful to; to meet the needs of.
- (intransitive) To have a given use or purpose; to function for something or to do something.
- (intransitive) To usefully take the place as, instead of something else.
- (transitive, law) To deliver a document.
- To officially deliver (a legal notice, summons etc.).
- To make legal service upon (a person named in a writ, summons, etc.)
- (transitive, intransitive, sports) To lead off with the first delivery over the net in tennis, volleyball, ping pong, badminton etc.
- (transitive) To copulate with (of male animals); to cover.
- (intransitive) To be in military service.
- (transitive, military) To work, to operate (a weapon).
- (transitive) To work through (a given period of time in prison, a sentence).
- (nautical) To wind spun yarn etc. tightly around (a rope or cable, etc.) so as to protect it from chafing or from the weather.
- (transitive) To perform (a public obligation).
- (transitive, intransitive, slang, drugs) To provide crack cocaine (to), usually by selling, dealing, or distributing.
- (gay slang and African-American Vernacular) To present an attractive personal appearance.
- (intransitive) To present an attractive personal appearance.
- (transitive) To attractively display something (especially a body part) as part of one's personal appearance.
- (transitive) To evoke something (especially a person) with one's personal appearance.
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Examples of "serve" in Sentences
- "His serve is probably the best on the tour," Blake said.
- That Cosgrove has mere months left to serve is entirely irrelevant.
- In mixed doubles, the serve is always gender to gender at deuce (three points each).
- Look at how schools actually behave and it becomes pretty clear that the constituency they serve is their employees.
- Their complete disconnect with the actual, proven war-fighting requirements of the state that they serve is embarrassing.
- The fact that Bayut. com stood out amongst the crowd of websites competing for the title serve as a testament to its authority in the field.
- So, it's hard to turn women away, but the way the program works is, the number of women we can serve is related to the number of sponsors, who help to support the women as they go through the program.
- The only purpose this legislation seems to serve is to kick the bucket further down the road and in the mean time give democrats hope of creating a government sponsored enterprise in the form of the domestic automobile industry.
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