service.
An act of being of assistance to someone.
Meaning & usage
An act of being of assistance to someone.
I say I did him a service by ending our relationship – now he can freely pursue his career.
The state of being subordinate to or employed by an individual or group.
Lancelot was at the service of King Arthur.
Work as a member of the military.
Thank you for your service.
Students were exempt from service in the armed forces.
The military.
the service
I did three years in the service before coming here.
The practice of providing assistance as economic activity.
Hair care is a service industry.
Synonym of utility (“commodity provided on a continuous basis by a physical infrastructure network, such as electricity, water supply or sewerage”).
A department in a company, organization, or institution.
A function that is provided by one program or machine for another.
This machine provides the name service for the LAN.
A set of dishes or utensils.
She brought out the silver tea service.
The act of initially starting, or serving, the ball in play in tennis, volleyball, and other games.
The player had four service faults in the set.
A religious rite or ritual.
The funerary service was touching.
The serving, or delivery, of a summons or writ.
The service happened yesterday.
A taxi shared among unrelated passengers, each of whom pays part of the fare; often, it has a fixed route between cities.
A musical composition for use in churches.
Profession of respect; acknowledgment of duty owed.
The materials used for serving a rope, etc., such as spun yarn and small lines.
Access to resources such as hotel rooms and Web-based videos without transfer of the resources' ownership.
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ser-der.? Proto-Italic *serwos Latin servus Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós Proto-Italic *-ijos Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin -ia Latin -itia Latin servitiumbor. Old French servisebor. Old English serfis Middle English servise English service From Middle English servise, from Old English serfis, from Old French servise (French service), from the verb servir, from Latin servitium (compare Portuguese serviço, Italian servizio, Norman sèrvice, Spanish servicio), from servus (“servant; serf; slave”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ser-wo-s (“guardian”), possibly from *ser- (“watch over, protect”). Displaced native Old English þeġnung.
To serve.
They service the customer base.
To serve. To perform maintenance.
He is going to service the car.
To serve. To supply (media outlets) with press releases etc.
To make a repayment or pay interest (on a debt).
It continues to be laden with intense debt servicing costs.
To inseminate through sexual intercourse.
To perform a sexual act upon.
He serviced her several times a week.
To attack.
to service a target
target servicing
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ser-der.? Proto-Italic *serwos Latin servus Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós Proto-Italic *-ijos Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin -ia Latin -itia Latin servitiumbor. Old French servisebor. Old English serfis Middle English servise English service From Middle English servise, from Old English serfis, from Old French servise (French service), from the verb servir, from Latin servitium (compare Portuguese serviço, Italian servizio, Norman sèrvice, Spanish servicio), from servus (“servant; serf; slave”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ser-wo-s (“guardian”), possibly from *ser- (“watch over, protect”). Displaced native Old English þeġnung.
Service tree.
The sorb; the fruit of this tree.
Where this word comes from
Properly, the tree that bears sorb fruit, from Middle English serves, plural of serve (“sorb apple, serviceberry”), from Old English syrfe, from Vulgar Latin *sorbea, from Latin sorbus (“service tree”). See sorb.
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