subserve

IPA: sʌbsˈɝv

verb

  • To serve to promote (an end); to be useful to.
  • To assist in carrying out.
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Examples of "subserve" in Sentences

  • TPJ and mPFC may subserve more general functions necessary for ToM.
  • Little is known about the neuronal mechanisms that subserve long-term memory persistence in the brain.
  • As for the current case, I agree that the present level of media hysteria can neither assist the police investigation nor subserve justice.
  • These regions are involved in immediate processing of odor input and probably subserve the specific tasks of smell detection and simple smell discrimination.
  • Localizability in this sense goes beyond mere implementation in local neural circuitry, since a given bit of circuitry could (and often does) subserve more than one cognitive function.
  • On the face of things, description theory predicts that imagery should depend upon the mechanisms and brain structures that subserve conceptual, non-imaginal thought, and not those that subserve perception.
  • The guinea-pig has teeth which are shed before it is born, and hence can never subserve the masticatory purpose for which they seem contrived, and, in like manner, the female dugong has tusks which never cut the gum.
  • Two membranous bags, intended to subserve respectively the protection and nutrition of the young creature, have been developed from the skin and from the under and hinder surface of the body; the former, the so-called
  • It would be impossible to lay it all before you, and the most I can do, or need do to-night, is to take up the principal points and put them before you with such prominence as may subserve the purposes of our present argument.
  • Most activities in our life are of this kind; they subserve some purpose which is not a sovereign theme by itself and which cannot, on the strength of its own substance, become the object of a frui proper — of contemplative or self-immersing enjoyment.
  • My purpose is to show that poverty and misfortune make no invidious distinctions of “race, color, or previous condition,” but that wealth unduly centralized oppresses all alike; therefore, that the labor elements of the whole United States should sympathize with the same elements in the South, and in some favorable contingency effect some unity of organization and action, which shall subserve the common interest of the common class.

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