Meaning of service | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A surname.
2. An act of being of assistance to someone.
   countable, uncountable
3. Service tree.
4. An unincorporated community in Crawford County, Missouri, United States.
5. The state of being subordinate to or employed by an individual or group.
   countable, uncountable
6. public toilet
7. The sorb; the fruit of this tree.
8. Work as a member of the military.
   uncountable
9. amenity
10. The practice of providing assistance as economic activity.
    countable, uncountable
11. silverware
12. Synonym of utility (“commodity provided on a continuous basis by a physical infrastructure network, such as electricity, water supply or sewerage”).
    countable, uncountable
13. A department in a company, organization, or institution.
    countable, uncountable
14. A function that is provided by one program or machine for another.
    countable, uncountable
15. The military.
    countable, uncountable
16. A set of dishes or utensils.
    countable, uncountable
17. The act of initially starting, or serving, the ball in play in tennis, volleyball, and other games.
    countable, uncountable
18. A religious rite or ritual.
    countable, uncountable
19. The serving, or delivery, of a summons or writ.
    countable, uncountable
20. A taxi shared among unrelated passengers, each of whom pays part of the fare; often, it has a fixed route between cities.
    Israel, also, countable, uncountable
21. A musical composition for use in churches.
    countable, uncountable
22. Profession of respect; acknowledgment of duty owed.
    countable, obsolete, uncountable
23. The materials used for serving a rope, etc., such as spun yarn and small lines.
    countable, uncountable
24. Access to resources such as hotel rooms and Web-based videos without transfer of the resources' ownership.
    countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“I say I did him a service by ending our relationship – now he can freely pursue his career.”

“The Parliament for ever cries more money, / The service of the state demands more money. / Just heaven! of what service is the state?”

“Then he commenced to talk, really talk. and inside of two flaps of a herring's fin he had me mesmerized, like Eben Holt's boy at the town hall show. He talked about the ills of humanity, and the glories of health and Nature and service and land knows what all.”

“Lancelot was at the service of King Arthur.”

“The lesser griefs that may be said, / ⁠That breathe a thousand tender vows, / ⁠Are but as servants in a house / Where lies the master newly dead; / Who speak their feeling as it is, / ⁠And weep the fulness from the mind: / ⁠‘It will be hard’ they say ‘to find / Another service such as this.’”

“Thank you for your service.”

“Hair care is a service industry.”

“The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about […], or offering services that let you "stay up to date with what your friends are doing",[...]and so on. But the real way to build a successful online business is to be better than your rivals at undermining people's control of their own attention.”

“This machine provides the name service for the LAN.”

“the service”

“I did three years in the service before coming here.”

“She brought out the silver tea service.”

“When their lavish fiestas ended they threw the silver service and even golden vessels from their balconies to be picked up by lucky passersby.”

“The player had four service faults in the set.”

“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.”

“The funerary service was touching.”

“He Suſpends on theſe Reaſons, that Thomas Rue had granted a general Diſcharge to Adam Muſhet, who was his Conjunct, and correus debendi, after the alleadged Service, which Diſcharged Muſhet, and conſequently Houstoun his Partner.”

“The service happened yesterday.”

“Pray, do my service to his majesty.”

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