Crossword clues for serving
serving
- Provide (usually but not necessarily food)
- As of a utility
- Be used by
- Contribute or conduce to
- The act of delivering a writ or summons upon someone
- Devote (part of) one's life or efforts to, as of countries, institutions, or ideas
- Plateful
- Ration in the army?
- Single portion of food
- Dinner unit
- Dishing up (food)
- Chris Brown "Second ___"
- Promote, benefit, or be useful or beneficial to
- As in games like tennis
- Put the ball into play
- Mate with
- Be adequate, either in quality or quantity
- Be sufficient
- Deliver a warrant or summons to someone
- Spend time in prison or in a labor camp
- Help to some food
- An individual portion of food or drink
- Help with food or drink
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Serving \Serv"ing\, a. & n. from Serve.
Serving board (Naut.), a flat piece of wood used in serving ropes.
Serving maid, a female servant; a maidservant.
Serving mallet (Naut.), a wooden instrument shaped like a mallet, used in serving ropes.
Serving man, a male servant, or attendant; a manservant.
Serving stuff (Naut.), small lines for serving ropes.
Serve \Serve\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Served; p. pr. & vb. n. Serving.] [OE. serven, servien, OF. & F. servir, fr. L. servire; akin to servus a servant or slave, servare to protect, preserve, observe; cf. Zend har to protect, haurva protecting. Cf. Conserve, Desert merit, Dessert, Observe, Serf, Sergeant.]
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To work for; to labor in behalf of; to exert one's self continuously or statedly for the benefit of; to do service for; to be in the employment of, as an inferior, domestic, serf, slave, hired assistant, official helper, etc.; specifically, in a religious sense, to obey and worship.
God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit.
--Rom. i. 9.Jacob loved Rachel; and said, I will serve thee seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter.
--Gen. xxix. 18.No man can serve two masters.
--Matt. vi. 24.Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age Have left me naked to mine enemies.
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To be subordinate to; to act a secondary part under; to appear as the inferior of; to minister to.
Bodies bright and greater should not serve The less not bright.
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To be suitor to; to profess love to. [Obs.]
To serve a lady in his beste wise.
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To wait upon; to supply the wants of; to attend; specifically, to wait upon at table; to attend at meals; to supply with food; as, to serve customers in a shop.
Others, pampered in their shameless pride, Are served in plate and in their chariots ride.
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Hence, to bring forward, arrange, deal, or distribute, as a portion of anything, especially of food prepared for eating; -- often with up; formerly with in.
Bid them cover the table, serve in the meat, and we will come in to dinner.
--Shak.Some part he roasts, then serves it up so dressed.
--Dryde. To perform the duties belonging to, or required in or for; hence, to be of use to; as, a curate may serve two churches; to serve one's country.
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To contribute or conduce to; to promote; to be sufficient for; to satisfy; as, to serve one's turn.
Turn it into some advantage, by observing where it can serve another end.
--Jer. Taylor. To answer or be (in the place of something) to; as, a sofa serves one for a seat and a couch.
To treat; to behave one's self to; to requite; to act toward; as, he served me very ill.
To work; to operate; as, to serve the guns.
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(Law)
To bring to notice, deliver, or execute, either actually or constructively, in such manner as the law requires; as, to serve a summons.
To make legal service opon (a person named in a writ, summons, etc.); as, to serve a witness with a subp[oe]na.
To pass or spend, as time, esp. time of punishment; as, to serve a term in prison.
To copulate with; to cover; as, a horse serves a mare; -- said of the male.
(Tennis) To lead off in delivering (the ball).
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(Naut.) To wind spun yarn, or the like, tightly around (a rope or cable, etc.) so as to protect it from chafing or from the weather. See under Serving.
To serve an attachment or To serve a writ of attachment (Law), to levy it on the person or goods by seizure, or to seize.
To serve an execution (Law), to levy it on a lands, goods, or person, by seizure or taking possession.
To serve an office, to discharge a public duty.
To serve a process (Law), in general, to read it, so as to give due notice to the party concerned, or to leave an attested copy with him or his attorney, or his usual place of abode.
To serve a warrant, to read it, and seize the person against whom it is issued.
To serve a writ (Law), to read it to the defendant, or to leave an attested copy at his usual place of abode.
To serve one out, to retaliate upon; to requite. ``I'll serve you out for this.''
--C. Kingsley.To serve one right, to treat, or cause to befall one, according to his deserts; -- used commonly of ill deserts; as, it serves the scoundrel right.
To serve one's self of, to avail one's self of; to make use of. [A Gallicism]
I will serve myself of this concession.
--Chillingworth.To serve out, to distribute; as, to serve out rations.
To serve the time or To serve the hour, to regulate one's actions by the requirements of the time instead of by one's duty; to be a timeserver. [Obs.]
They think herein we serve the time, because thereby we either hold or seek preferment.
--Hooker.Syn: To obey; minister to; subserve; promote; aid; help; assist; benefit; succor.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"action of serving," c.1200, verbal noun from serve (v.). As "a helping of food" from 1769.
Wiktionary
That or who serves or serve. n. 1 (context uncountable English) The action of the verb '''to serve'''. 2 (context countable English) A portion (especially, of a meal) ''served'' to someone. 3 (context countable English) A layer added to the outside of an electrical cable to protect it v
(present participle of serve English)
WordNet
n. an individual quantity of food or drink taken as part of a meal; "the helpings were all small"; "his portion was larger than hers"; "there's enough for two servings each" [syn: helping, portion]
the act of delivering a writ or summons upon someone; "he accepted service of the subpoena" [syn: service, service of process]
Wikipedia
Serving may refer to:
- Serving size
- Providing a non-material good, as in the work of a servant
- Supplying customers with food and drink, as in the work of a food server
- Service of process, the procedure for delivering a legal or administrative summons
- Serving channel, a type of file sharing channel
- Servitude (disambiguation)
Usage examples of "serving".
WCBA, a wholly owned affiliate of the CBA network, was a prestigious local station serving the New York area.
Caira would have her skirt sewn to show petticoats to the middle of her thigh or higher had Mistress Anan allowed it, but the innkeeper looked after her serving women almost as closely as she did her daughters.
In England, because of his extreme Anarchist views, Most broke with Marx and, after serving eighteen months at hard labor for advocating regicide, he emigrated in 1882 to the United States.
Gaston soon saw that he was serving his apprenticeship on a slaver, one of the many ships sent yearly by the free and philanthropic Americans, who made immense fortunes by carrying on the slave-trade.
No one living that Anaxthenes could find ever remembered the elderly Archpriest serving in the Sacred Squares or any other army.
Pretending to be setting an example, Prairie slid over to one of the work counters, wrestled a hot baloney into place, quickly sharpened a knife, and began to carve the object into steaming, purple-rimmed slices, which she arranged attractively on a serving platter, generously spooning more shiny grape liquid over the top, to be carried in and set on one of the mess-hall tables, where eaters would serve themselves except for the people in assertiveness programs, of course, who sat over at their own table and each got a separate plate with the food already on it.
She was not a serving girl, that much was obvious from the richness of her barracan and the cosmetics that highlighted her face, bringing the eyes and rich red mouth into prominence.
THAT evening, following dinner in the gloomy old Bartram dining room, where Mahinda silently stalked about the table, serving food, Willard Saybrook mentioned to Grace Bartram that he had made a very interesting acquaintance in the person of Harry Vincent.
Black waiters in white serving jackets move through the crowd with trays of drinks, while the experts ponder their racing forms and the hunch bettors pick lucky numbers or scan the lineup for right-sounding names.
Newberry, the botanist who had worked with Petrie at Hawara, introduced as a promising painter of Egyptian scenes, a square-jawed, clean-shaven American named Reisner, who was serving as a member of the International Catalogue Commission of the Cairo Museum, and a Herr Bursch, a former student of Ebers at Berlin.
Captain Houser, Major Dillon, Lieutenant Lewis, and a sailor serving as lookout and talker.
The present Archbishop of Manilla, whose reputation for piety and good feeling towards all men stands very high, is an old soldier, who, after serving his king when a young man as lieutenant of cavalry for several years, changed his master, and assuming the habit of a priest, devoted himself to religion for the remainder of his life.
The serving girl watched them both with avid curiosity as Mathe stopped a few feet away.
The girl in the food court remembers serving Mellon and the little kid, and thinking how cute they looked sitting at the table together.
There, Nitta performed the ritual of welcoming Sano and serving tea with an elaborate courtesy that conveyed his antipathy more clearly than could blatant insults.