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.
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 for four bells.