Definitions from Wiktionary (serve)
▸ noun: (sports) An act of putting the ball or shuttlecock in play in various games.
▸ noun: (chiefly Australia) A portion of food or drink, a serving.
▸ noun: (gay slang and African-American Vernacular) An impressive presentation (especially of a person's appearance).
▸ verb: (personal) To provide a service (or, by extension, a product, especially food or drink).
▸ verb: (transitive) To be a formal servant for (a god or deity); to worship in an official capacity.
▸ verb: (transitive) To be a servant for; to work for, to be employed by.
▸ verb: (transitive) To wait upon (someone) at table; to set food and drink in front of, to help (someone) to food, meals etc.
▸ verb: (intransitive, factive) To render service by being a servant, worker, employee, or officeholder; to hold those roles and perform their duties.
▸ verb: (transitive) To set down (food or drink) on the table to be eaten; to bring (food, drink) to a person.
▸ verb: (transitive, archaic) To treat (someone) in a given manner.
▸ verb: (transitive, archaic) To be suitor to; to be the lover of.
▸ verb: To be effective.
▸ verb: (transitive) To be useful to; to meet the needs of.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To have a given use or purpose; to function for something or to do something.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To usefully take the place as, instead of something else.
▸ verb: (transitive, law) To deliver a document in such a way that the recipient can be legally considered to be informed of it.
▸ verb: To officially deliver (a legal notice, summons etc.).
▸ verb: To make legal service upon (a person named in a writ, summons, etc.)
▸ verb: (transitive, intransitive, sports) To lead off with the first delivery over the net in tennis, volleyball, ping pong, badminton etc.
▸ verb: (transitive) To copulate with (of male animals); to cover.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To be in military service.
▸ verb: (transitive, military) To work, to operate (a weapon).
▸ verb: (transitive) To work through (a given period of time in prison, a sentence).
▸ verb: (nautical) To wind spun yarn etc. tightly around (a rope or cable, etc.) so as to protect it from chafing or from the weather.
▸ verb: (transitive) To perform (a public obligation).
▸ verb: (ambitransitive, slang, drugs) To provide crack cocaine (to), usually by selling, dealing, or distributing.
▸ verb: (LGBTQ slang and African-American Vernacular) To present an attractive personal appearance.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To present an attractive personal appearance.
▸ verb: (transitive) To attractively display (something, especially a body part) as part of one's personal appearance.
▸ verb: (transitive) To evoke (something, especially a person) with one's personal appearance.
▸ Also see serve
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▸ noun: (sports) An act of putting the ball or shuttlecock in play in various games.
▸ noun: (chiefly Australia) A portion of food or drink, a serving.
▸ noun: (gay slang and African-American Vernacular) An impressive presentation (especially of a person's appearance).
▸ verb: (personal) To provide a service (or, by extension, a product, especially food or drink).
▸ verb: (transitive) To be a formal servant for (a god or deity); to worship in an official capacity.
▸ verb: (transitive) To be a servant for; to work for, to be employed by.
▸ verb: (transitive) To wait upon (someone) at table; to set food and drink in front of, to help (someone) to food, meals etc.
▸ verb: (intransitive, factive) To render service by being a servant, worker, employee, or officeholder; to hold those roles and perform their duties.
▸ verb: (transitive) To set down (food or drink) on the table to be eaten; to bring (food, drink) to a person.
▸ verb: (transitive, archaic) To treat (someone) in a given manner.
▸ verb: (transitive, archaic) To be suitor to; to be the lover of.
▸ verb: To be effective.
▸ verb: (transitive) To be useful to; to meet the needs of.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To have a given use or purpose; to function for something or to do something.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To usefully take the place as, instead of something else.
▸ verb: (transitive, law) To deliver a document in such a way that the recipient can be legally considered to be informed of it.
▸ verb: To officially deliver (a legal notice, summons etc.).
▸ verb: To make legal service upon (a person named in a writ, summons, etc.)
▸ verb: (transitive, intransitive, sports) To lead off with the first delivery over the net in tennis, volleyball, ping pong, badminton etc.
▸ verb: (transitive) To copulate with (of male animals); to cover.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To be in military service.
▸ verb: (transitive, military) To work, to operate (a weapon).
▸ verb: (transitive) To work through (a given period of time in prison, a sentence).
▸ verb: (nautical) To wind spun yarn etc. tightly around (a rope or cable, etc.) so as to protect it from chafing or from the weather.
▸ verb: (transitive) To perform (a public obligation).
▸ verb: (ambitransitive, slang, drugs) To provide crack cocaine (to), usually by selling, dealing, or distributing.
▸ verb: (LGBTQ slang and African-American Vernacular) To present an attractive personal appearance.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To present an attractive personal appearance.
▸ verb: (transitive) To attractively display (something, especially a body part) as part of one's personal appearance.
▸ verb: (transitive) To evoke (something, especially a person) with one's personal appearance.
▸ Also see serve
Opposite:
Types:
service,
love,
ace,
double fault,
fault,
break point,
set point,
game point,
match point,
set,
more...
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▸ Words similar to serves
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▸ Wikipedia articles (New!)
▸ Popular adjectives describing serves
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