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Serve   /sərv/   Listen
Serve

verb
(past & past part. served; pres. part. serving)
1.
Serve a purpose, role, or function.  Synonym: function.  "The female students served as a control group" , "This table would serve very well" , "His freedom served him well" , "The table functions as a desk"
2.
Do duty or hold offices; serve in a specific function.  "She served in Congress for two terms"
3.
Contribute or conduce to.
4.
Be used by; as of a utility.  Synonym: service.  "The garage served to shelter his horses"
5.
Help to some food; help with food or drink.  Synonym: help.
6.
Provide (usually but not necessarily food).  Synonyms: dish, dish out, dish up, serve up.  "She dished out the soup at 8 P.M." , "The entertainers served up a lively show"
7.
Devote (part of) one's life or efforts to, as of countries, institutions, or ideas.  "He served the church" , "Serve the country"
8.
Promote, benefit, or be useful or beneficial to.  Synonym: serve well.  "Their interests are served" , "The lake serves recreation" , "The President's wisdom has served the country well"
9.
Spend time in prison or in a labor camp.  Synonym: do.
10.
Work for or be a servant to.  Synonyms: assist, attend, attend to, wait on.  "She attends the old lady in the wheelchair" , "Can you wait on our table, please?" , "Is a salesperson assisting you?" , "The minister served the King for many years"
11.
Deliver a warrant or summons to someone.  Synonyms: process, swear out.
12.
Be sufficient; be adequate, either in quality or quantity.  Synonyms: answer, do, suffice.  "This car suits my purpose well" , "Will $100 do?" , "A 'B' grade doesn't suffice to get me into medical school" , "Nothing else will serve"
13.
Do military service.  "My sons never served, because they are short-sighted"
14.
Mate with.  Synonym: service.
15.
Put the ball into play.
noun
1.
(sports) a stroke that puts the ball in play.  Synonym: service.



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"Serve" Quotes from Famous Books



... personalities by puny analyses of moral influences and by a catalogue of their feelings and surroundings. They follow their destined course and raise our admiration or our fears and all the while they give us no real clue to the powers within their souls or the end they serve. ...
— Lloyd George - The Man and His Story • Frank Dilnot

... Massacre,—who, when the first grand jury under the new organization was drawn, had met the judge with, "I refuse to sarve,"—a scientific mechanic,—a leader at the Tea-party,—a soldier of the old war,—prepared to serve in this war, too, with sword, or graver, or science,—fitting carriages, at Washington's command, to the cannon from which the retreating English had knocked off the trunnions, learning how to make powder at the command of the Provincial Congress, and setting ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 • Various

... Frank, who had taken old Felipe along with him to serve as interpreter, found that Carlos Mendoza had his home just on the border of the town, though it was a little distance away. He soon made arrangements for hiring a native cart to be used in ...
— The Aeroplane Boys on the Wing - Aeroplane Chums in the Tropics • John Luther Langworthy

... period of high-life, always in dress clothes from seven in the evening, without painting anything but women who wanted to appear pretty and discussed gravely with the artist which gown they should put on to serve as a model, Renovales met his ...
— Woman Triumphant - (La Maja Desnuda) • Vicente Blasco Ibanez

... if he is much great, can makee kill, why no makee kill when no serve him? No be good mans, ...
— The Life and Most Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of - York, Mariner (1801) • Daniel Defoe


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