Serve

(noun.) (sports) a stroke that puts the ball in play; 'his powerful serves won the game'.

(verb.) put the ball into play; 'It was Agassi's turn to serve'.

(verb.) do duty or hold offices; serve in a specific function; 'He served as head of the department for three years'; 'She served in Congress for two terms'.

(verb.) provide (usually but not necessarily food); 'We serve meals for the homeless'; 'She dished out the soup at 8 P.M.'; 'The entertainers served up a lively show'.

(verb.) help to some food; help with food or drink; 'I served him three times, and after that he helped himself'.

(verb.) mate with; 'male animals serve the females for breeding purposes'.

(verb.) deliver a warrant or summons to someone; 'He was processed by the sheriff'.

(verb.) work for or be a servant to; 'May I serve you?'; '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'.

(verb.) devote (part of) one's life or efforts to, as of countries, institutions, or ideas; 'She served the art of music'; 'He served the church'; 'serve the country'.

(verb.) contribute or conduce to; 'The scandal served to increase his popularity'.

(verb.) promote, benefit, or be useful or beneficial to; 'Art serves commerce'; 'Their interests are served'; 'The lake serves recreation'; 'The President's wisdom has served the country well'.

(verb.) serve a purpose, role, or function; 'The tree stump serves as a table'; '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'.

(verb.) spend time in prison or in a labor camp; 'He did six years for embezzlement'.

(verb.) do military service; 'She served in Vietnam'; 'My sons never served, because they are short-sighted'.

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• They have a kind of hard flints, which, by grinding against other stones, they form into instruments, that serve instead of wedges, axes, and hammers. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• She shall serve me the allotted time. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• The same notion lies imbedded in the phrase: government must serve the people. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• I should then have done all that a man in my position could do to serve the interests of my old friend's only child. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• No man ever can have been more desirous in his heart to serve a friend, than I am to serve mine, if I knew how. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• What you want me to serve, is nothing, mere nothing. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• This made it very difficult for the housewife to serve the breakfast hot, and particularly the toast, which is a favorite dish of our breakfast table. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• If the guests chose to partake of what was served, he saw no objection; but it was served for the maintenance of his rank. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• Nobody has ever been served so! 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• A great stone that I happened to find, after a long search, by the sea-shore, served me for an anchor. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• He had no weapon, excepting a poniard at his belt, which served to counterbalance the weight of the bunch of rusty keys that hung at his right side. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• That would have served me right, though. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• Served him jolly well right! 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• He was from Grimsby, as I told you, and he served his apprenticeship there. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• I must indeed, I said; for when just now I repeated the offer of serving him for a deacon, he expressed himself shocked at my want of decency. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• On board serving as third mate was George Radfoot. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• We were eating at the inn from where the buses leave and the room was crowded and people were singing and there was difficulty serving. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• We must begin by showing how the Diamond first fell into the hands of my uncle Herncastle, when he was serving in India fifty years since. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• To collect documents is one mode of serving your country, and to remember the contents of a document is another. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• He was serving in a war and he gave absolute loyalty and as complete a performance as he could give while he was serving. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• Here, its power was only a glare: a stifling, sickly glare, serving but to bring forward stains and dirt that might otherwise have slept. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• An electric pad serves the same purpose as a hot water bag. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• Ordinarily a combination of products best serves the ends of the physician. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• There was, if my memory serves me, but one small steamer to transport troops and baggage when the 4th infantry arrived. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• A cheap pump is then attached to the upper end of the drill pipe and serves to raise the water. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• In Europe, corn is the principal produce of land, which serves immediately for human food. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Another and cheaper product experimented with is the pith of the cornstalk, which is much lighter than the cocoanut fiber and serves the same purpose. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• This, if my memory serves me correctly, broke through the only pontoon bridge we had in all our march across the peninsula. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.

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