service
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: agriculture
business
computing
economics
engineering
government
hobbies
law
lifestyle
mathematics
military
natural-sciences
nautical
physical-sciences
politics
sciences
sports
transport
war
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ser-der.?
Proto-Italic *serwos
Latin servus
Proto-Indo-European *-yós
Proto-Italic *-ios
Old Latin -ios
Latin -ius
Latin -ia
Latin -itia
Latin servitiumbor.
Old French servisebor.
Old English serfis
Middle English servise
English service
From Middle English servise, from Old English serfis, from Old French servise (French service), from the verb servir, from Latin servitium (compare Portuguese serviço, Italian servizio, Norman sèrvice, Spanish servicio), from servus (“servant; serf; slave”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ser-wo-s (“guardian”), possibly from *ser- (“watch over, protect”). Displaced native Old English þeġnung.
Inflected forms:
form: services
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: seruice
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: services
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: servicing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: serviced
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: serviced
pos: verb
tags: past
form: seruice
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: An act of being of assistance to someone.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
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.
gloss: The state of being subordinate to or employed by an individual or group.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.’
gloss: Work as a member of the military.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Thank you for your service.
gloss: The military.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: the service
I did three years in the service before coming here.
gloss: The practice of providing assistance as economic activity.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: Synonym of utility (“commodity provided on a continuous basis by a physical infrastructure network, such as electricity, water supply or sewerage”).
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A department in a company, organization, or institution.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A function that is provided by one program or machine for another.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: This machine provides the name service for the LAN.
gloss: A set of dishes or utensils.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: The act of initially starting, or serving, the ball in play in tennis, volleyball, and other games.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The player had four service faults in the set.
gloss: A religious rite or ritual.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: The serving, or delivery, of a summons or writ.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: 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.
gloss: A taxi shared among unrelated passengers, each of whom pays part of the fare; often, it has a fixed route between cities.
pos: noun
tags: Israel
also
countable
uncountable
gloss: A musical composition for use in churches.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Profession of respect; acknowledgment of duty owed.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: Pray, do my service to his majesty.
gloss: The materials used for serving a rope, etc., such as spun yarn and small lines.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Access to resources such as hotel rooms and Web-based videos without transfer of the resources' ownership.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To serve.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: They service the customer base.
The USS Manila Bay, in the next group south of Taffy 3, services aircraft from eleven different squadrons that aren't attached to her own flight group, and, at one point, has representatives from no less than four other carriers' airgroups on her flight deck at the same time.
gloss: To serve.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He is going to service the car.
2 GWM businessmen seek young GM to service nice small country home in So. NH
gloss: To serve.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: One obvious way is press releases, which should be sent to your region's reporters, editors and columnists, the wire services, professional publications. […] Servicing the media should be an everyday thing.
[…] instead of expending so much of their PR effort on servicing the media.
gloss: To make a repayment or pay interest (on a debt).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: It continues to be laden with intense debt servicing costs.
gloss: To inseminate through sexual intercourse.
pos: verb
tags: euphemistic
transitive
gloss: To perform a sexual act upon.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
vulgar
examples: He serviced her several times a week.
gloss: To attack.
pos: verb
tags: euphemistic
transitive
examples: to service a target
target servicing
Synonyms: attend
wait on
go to bed with
sleep with
Antonyms: antonym(s) of
Related words: service à la française
service à la russe
Derived words: accessorial service
active service
address verification service
ancillary travel services
antiservice
API Service Symbol
API service symbol
at someone's service
at your service
bioservice
bord service
bottle service
bulletin board service
Cinderella service
civil-service
command and service module
craft service
craft services
curbside service
cyberservice
denial of service
denial-of-service attack
denial of services
diaper service
digital service provider
directory service
domain name service
domestic service
ecoservice
eco-service
emergency medical service
emergency services
enterprise service bus
e-service
exposed services
ex-service
extra service
eye-service
eye service
fan service
fee-for-service
fire service
flower service
foodservice
full-service
full service
goods and services tax
GP out of hours service
heart-service
human services
in-service
inservice
in service
integrated services digital network
internet service provider
interservice
intraservice
jury service
knight-service
knight service
lip service
lip-service
logbook service
long service leave
megaservice
metaservice
microservice
misservice
monoservice
multiservice
nappy service
non-military service
nonservice
off service
onion service
online service provider
operational service period
order of service
out-of-service
out of service
overservice
payment service
plain old telephone service
point of service
police service
postservice
preservice
pre-service
press into service
preventive service
pseudoservice
public service announcement
quality of service
religious service
reservice
road service
rough service light
second-mile service
second service
security service
self-service
servibar
service academy
service agreement
service animal
service area
service as a software substitute
serviceberry
service-berry
service berry
service book
service box
service break
service bureau
service call
service cap
service ceiling
service center
service charge
service cleaner
service club
service contract
service course
service court
service design package
service dog
service door
service drop
service economy
service elevator
service fee
service game
service hat
service industry
service item
service journalism
service-learning
serviceless
service level
service level agreement
service life
service lift
servicelike
service line
service loop
service magazine
serviceman
servicemark
service mark
service media
service member
servicemember
service module
service of an heir
service of process
service-oriented
service-oriented architecture
service pack
serviceperson
service pipe
service pistol
service plaza
service police
service provider
service record
service revolver
service road
servicescape
service set identifier
serviceshed
service station
service stripe
service top
service wall
serviceware
service water
servicewoman
service worker
servicification
servitization
sewer service
short message service
social services
software as a service
special service request
special service requirement
subservice
suit and service
sunrise service
teleservice
terms of service
toilet service
transportation network vehicle service
triservice
uniformed service
unservice
value-added service
white-glove service
wild service tree
wrap service
yeoman service
unserviced
serviceability
service oneself
servicer
underserviced
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: обслужвам
roman: obslužvam
lang: Catalan
word: servir
lang: Estonian
word: teenindama
lang: Finnish
word: palvella
lang: French
word: servir
lang: Georgian
word: ემსახურება
roman: emsaxureba
lang: Georgian
word: მოემსახურება
roman: moemsaxureba
lang: German
word: bedienen
lang: Hungarian
word: kiszolgál
lang: Indonesian
word: layanan
lang: Persian
word: خدمت کردن
roman: xedmat kardan
lang: Polish
word: serwować
lang: Portuguese
word: servir
lang: Russian
word: обслу́живать
roman: obslúživatʹ
lang: Russian
word: обслужи́ть
roman: obslužítʹ
lang: Spanish
word: servir
lang: Swahili
word: hudumia
lang: Swedish
word: betjäna
lang: Ukrainian
word: обслуго́вувати
roman: obsluhóvuvaty