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Serve
Serve Serve, v. i.
1. To be a servant or a slave; to be employed in labor or
other business for another; to be in subjection or
bondage; to render menial service.
The Lord shall give thee rest . . . from the hard
bondage wherein thou wast made to serve. --Isa. xiv.
3.
2. To perform domestic offices; to be occupied with household
affairs; to prepare and dish up food, etc.
But Martha . . . said, Lord, dost thou not care that
my sister hath left me to serve alone? --Luke x. 40.
3. To be in service; to do duty; to discharge the
requirements of an office or employment. Specifically, to
act in the public service, as a soldier, seaman. etc.
Many . . . who had before been great commanders, but
now served as private gentlemen without pay.
--Knolles.
4. To be of use; to answer a purpose; to suffice; to suit; to
be convenient or favorable.
This little brand will serve to light your fire.
--Dryden.
As occasion serves, this noble queen And prince
shall follow with a fresh supply. --Shak.
5. (Tennis) To lead off in delivering the ball.
Meaning of Serve from wikipedia
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- A serve (or, more formally, a service) in tennis is a shot to start a point. A player will hit the ball with a racquet so it will fall into the diagonally...
- Soft serve, also known as soft ice, is a frozen dairy dessert, similar to ice cream but softer and less dense as a result of air being introduced during...
- team that won the point served in the previous point, the same player serves again. If the team that won the point did not serve the previous point, the...
- Cost to Serve is a process-driven accountancy tool to calculate the profitability of a customer account, based on the actual business activities and overhead...
- To protect and to serve may refer to: "To Protect and to Serve", the motto of the Los Angeles Police Department since 1963, subsequently adopted by many...
- "To Serve Man" is a science fiction short story by American writer Damon Knight. It first appeared in the November 1950 issue of Galaxy Science Fiction...
- Tanner's serve was clocked at 153 mph at Palm Springs in 1978 during the final against Raúl Ramírez. There are also reports that Bill Tilden had a serve that...
- The Serve America Movement (SAM) is a big tent political organization founded in 2017 by Morgan Stanley lawyer Eric Grossman. The party achieved its first...
- "Serve & Protect" is the fourteenth episode of the fourth season of the American television police sitcom series Brooklyn Nine-Nine and the 82nd overall...
