Serve
verb
To work for someone or an organization.
She serves in the army.
Often appears as...
- serve in the military
- serve on a committee
verb
To provide food or drinks to someone.
Margaret served the coffee and dessert after dinner.
Often appears as...
- serve dinner
- serve drinks
verb
To provide assistance or fulfill a need for someone.
This information will serve a useful purpose in our research.
Often appears as...
- serve a purpose
- serve a need
verb
To carry out a sentence or punishment.
He served two years in prison for theft.
Often appears as...
- serve a sentence
- serve time
verb
To hit the ball to start a game in tennis or volleyball.
It's your turn to serve.
Often appears as...
- serve the ball
- serve an ace
verb
To deliver a document such as a writ or summons.
The court ordered the document to be served to the defendant.
Often appears as...
- serve papers
- serve a summons
verb
To work for someone or an organization.
She serves in the army.
Often appears as...
- serve in the military
- serve on a committee
verb
To provide food or drinks to someone.
Margaret served the coffee and dessert after dinner.
Often appears as...
- serve dinner
- serve drinks
verb
To provide assistance or fulfill a need for someone.
This information will serve a useful purpose in our research.
Often appears as...
- serve a purpose
- serve a need
verb
To carry out a sentence or punishment.
He served two years in prison for theft.
Often appears as...
- serve a sentence
- serve time
verb
To hit the ball to start a game in tennis or volleyball.
It's your turn to serve.
Often appears as...
- serve the ball
- serve an ace
verb
To deliver a document such as a writ or summons.
The court ordered the document to be served to the defendant.
Often appears as...
- serve papers
- serve a summons
Definition 1 of 6
Pro Tip 1/2Professional Context
Use when talking about professional roles or responsibilities.
She serves as the head of marketing.
Pro Tip 2/2Service Duration
Can indicate the length of time someone serves in a role.
He served as mayor for ten years.
Pro Tip 1/2Professional Context
Use when talking about professional roles or responsibilities.
She serves as the head of marketing.
Pro Tip 2/2Service Duration
Can indicate the length of time someone serves in a role.
He served as mayor for ten years.
Pro Tip 1/2Professional Context
Use when talking about professional roles or responsibilities.
She serves as the head of marketing.
Pro Tip 2/2Service Duration
Can indicate the length of time someone serves in a role.
He served as mayor for ten years.
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What self-respecting night manager would ever want to work there even for an infinite salary? But over at Hilbert's Infinite Hotel, where there's never any vacancy and always room for more, the scenarios faced by the ever-diligent and maybe too hospitable night manager serve to remind us of just how hard it is for our relatively finite minds
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Why do blood types...
allowing the cells to transport it throughout the body. But they also have another kind of complex protein on the outside of the cell membrane. These proteins, known as antigens, communicate with white blood cells, immune cells that protect against infection. Antigens serve as identifying markers,
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Thinking your way out of...
impostor because everyone else on the executive team is brilliantly articulate and I'm not now there was a time when I would have said to her oh I'm sure you're brilliantly articulate but now I know that wouldn't have served her so instead I said well maybe you're not
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Why do we hiccup? - John...
having once served some important purpose only to persist into the present as vestigial remnants? One idea is that hiccups began many millions of years before the appearance of humans. The lung is thought to have evolved as a structure to allow early fish,
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What is bipolar...
Healthy brains maintain strong connections between neurons thanks to the brain's continuous efforts to prune itself and remove unused or faulty neural connections. This process is important because our neural pathways serve as a map for everything we do.
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Jeffrey Brown: How we...
to be able to be with people through all the passages of life, to preach messages that would have an everyday meaning for folks, and in the African-American tradition, to be able to represent the community that I serve.
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How does caffeine keep...
But it can also raise our blood pressure, and make us feel anxious. It's the world most widely used drug. So how does it keep us awake? Caffeine evolved in plants where it serves a few purposes.
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The benefits of a good...
which serve as relay stations of memory formation. And the different stages of sleep have been shown to help consolidate different types of memories. During the non-REM slow-wave sleep,
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The Deadly Portuguese...
it floats with the help of a gas-filled bladder topped by a vertical membrane with that serving as a sail it maintains
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Prison Family PIPE National...
Terrell's serving 30 to life for a murder charge and she's one of our w's
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The Infinite Hotel...
What self-respecting night manager would ever want to work there even for an infinite salary? But over at Hilbert's Infinite Hotel, where there's never any vacancy and always room for more, the scenarios faced by the ever-diligent and maybe too hospitable night manager serve to remind us of just how hard it is for our relatively finite minds
Video examples
Why do blood types...
allowing the cells to transport it throughout the body. But they also have another kind of complex protein on the outside of the cell membrane. These proteins, known as antigens, communicate with white blood cells, immune cells that protect against infection. Antigens serve as identifying markers,
Video examples
Thinking your way out of...
impostor because everyone else on the executive team is brilliantly articulate and I'm not now there was a time when I would have said to her oh I'm sure you're brilliantly articulate but now I know that wouldn't have served her so instead I said well maybe you're not
Video examples
Why do we hiccup? - John...
having once served some important purpose only to persist into the present as vestigial remnants? One idea is that hiccups began many millions of years before the appearance of humans. The lung is thought to have evolved as a structure to allow early fish,
Video examples
What is bipolar...
Healthy brains maintain strong connections between neurons thanks to the brain's continuous efforts to prune itself and remove unused or faulty neural connections. This process is important because our neural pathways serve as a map for everything we do.
Video examples
Jeffrey Brown: How we...
to be able to be with people through all the passages of life, to preach messages that would have an everyday meaning for folks, and in the African-American tradition, to be able to represent the community that I serve.
Video examples
How does caffeine keep...
But it can also raise our blood pressure, and make us feel anxious. It's the world most widely used drug. So how does it keep us awake? Caffeine evolved in plants where it serves a few purposes.
Video examples
The benefits of a good...
which serve as relay stations of memory formation. And the different stages of sleep have been shown to help consolidate different types of memories. During the non-REM slow-wave sleep,
Video examples
The Deadly Portuguese...
it floats with the help of a gas-filled bladder topped by a vertical membrane with that serving as a sail it maintains
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Prison Family PIPE National...
Terrell's serving 30 to life for a murder charge and she's one of our w's
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Chuck Palahniuk
American Novelist
I think it's more important to write something that brings men back to reading than it is to write for people who already read. There's a reason men don't read, and it's because books don't serve men. It's time we produce books that serve men.
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George W. Bush
American President
Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.
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Thomas Merton
American Author
A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire.
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Lady Gaga
American Singer
I talk about myself in the third person all the time. I don't live my life in the way someone like you does. I live my life completely serving only my work and my fans.
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Noma Dumezweni
English Actress
I'm a great company actor, a great supporting actor. I serve the piece.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German Writer
Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.
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Alphonso Jackson
American Public Servant
I think serving your government is the greatest thing in the world.
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Henry Adams
American Historian
He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.
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Vangelis
Greek Composer
I absolutely respect and I believe I serve music.
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Karolina Pliskova
Czechoslovakian Athlete
My serve - it's really important for me.
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Chuck Palahniuk
American Novelist
I think it's more important to write something that brings men back to reading than it is to write for people who already read. There's a reason men don't read, and it's because books don't serve men. It's time we produce books that serve men.
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George W. Bush
American President
Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.
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Thomas Merton
American Author
A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire.
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Lady Gaga
American Singer
I talk about myself in the third person all the time. I don't live my life in the way someone like you does. I live my life completely serving only my work and my fans.
Quote examples
Noma Dumezweni
English Actress
I'm a great company actor, a great supporting actor. I serve the piece.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German Writer
Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.
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Alphonso Jackson
American Public Servant
I think serving your government is the greatest thing in the world.
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Henry Adams
American Historian
He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.
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Vangelis
Greek Composer
I absolutely respect and I believe I serve music.
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Karolina Pliskova
Czechoslovakian Athlete
My serve - it's really important for me.
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