service meaning
EN[ˈsɜːvɪs] [ˈsɝvɪs]US, California
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- Service may refer to:
FR service
- NounPLservicesSUF-ice
- 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.
- (economics) The practice of providing such a service as economic activity.
- Hair care is a service industry.
- A department in a company, an organization, a government department, etc.
- (computing) A function that is provided by one program or machine for another.
- This machine provides the name service for the LAN.
- The state of being subordinate to or employed by an individual or group.
- Lancelot was at the service of King Arthur.
- The military.
- I did three years in the service before coming here.
- A set of dishes or utensils.
- She brought out the silver tea service.
- (sports) 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.
- Here, in the transept and choir, where the service was being held, one was conscious every moment of an increasing brightness; colours glowing vividly beneath the circular chandeliers, and the rows of small lights on the choristers' desks flashed and sparkled in front of the boys' faces, deep linen collars, and red neckbands.
- (law) The serving, or delivery, of a summons or writ.
- (Jordanian, Lebanese, Syrian, Israel, West Bank) 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.
- (obsolete) Profession of respect; acknowledgment of duty owed.
- (nautical) The materials used for serving a rope, etc., such as spun yarn and small lines.
- service tree.
- An act of being of assistance to someone.
- VerbSGservicesPRservicingPT, PPserviced
- (transitive) To serve.
- They service the customer base.
- (transitive) To perform maintenance.
- He is going to service the car.
- (transitive, agriculture, euphemistic) To inseminate through sexual intercourse.
- (transitive, vulgar) To perform a sexual act.
- He was going to service her.
- (transitive) To serve.
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- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- The goal also cost the Blues the services of Luiz, who was injured in attempting to clear and was taken off on a stretcher and replaced by Gary Cahill.
- The Motor Carrier Act that opened the U.S. side of the U.S.-Mexican border shows that on average 46.4. local trucking and courier service establishments left each port of entry.
- She said the tiremaker would continue to provide replacements and service to consumers who already had the tires.
- Used in the Beginning of Sentence
- Services given by the Sayyids are supposed to be free, but they should receive the Zikat, or one tenth of the fruits of the earth.
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- In our department we still have a lot of old fernos but we replace them with the newer strykers as they are retired from service.
- Hotmail, Yahoo! Mail and Gmail are well-known webmail services.
- The local cable company is offering a triple play service.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of service in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
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- fr service
- en services
- fr services
- en serviceable
- en serviceberry
Source: Wiktionary