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
- They served the emigrant.
- Dinner is already served.
- The beef fillet was served.
- They served with the conviviality.
- The coordinator serves the project.
- The assistant also serves the tea and sweets to the guests.
- This serves to help integrate the group and prevent segmentation.
- He also served as the Honorary Aide de Camp to the Governor General.
- In America, they are served in the same ways the American waffle is served.
- Alger Hiss served as a temporary legal assistant to the staff of the committee.