| service | |
| 1. n. An act of being of assistance to someone. | |
| I say I did him a service by ending our relationship - now he can freely pursue his career. | |
| 2. n. (economics) The practice of providing such a service as economic activity. | |
| Hair care is a service industry. | |
| 3. n. A department in a company, an organization, a government department, etc. | |
| 4. n. (computing) A function that is provided by one program or machine for another. | |
| This machine provides the name service for the LAN. | |
| 5. n. The state of being subordinate to or employed by an individual or group | |
| Lancelot was at the service of King Arthur. | |
| 6. n. The military. | |
| I did three years in the service before coming here. | |
| 7. n. (anchor, silverware)A set of dishes or utensils. | |
| She brought out the silver tea service. | |
| 8. n. (sports) The act of initially starting, or serving, the ball in play in tennis, volleyball, and other games. | |
| The player had four service faults in the set. | |
| 9. n. A religious rite or ritual. | |
| The funeral service was touching. | |
| 10. n. (legal) The serving, or delivery, of a summons or writ. | |
| The service happened yesterday. | |
| 11. n. (Israel, West Bank, also in Jordan, Lebanon and Syria) A taxi shared among unrelated passengers, each of whom pays part of the fare; often, it has a fixed route between cities. | |
| 12. n. A musical composition for use in churches. | |
| 13. n. (obsolete) Profession of respect; acknowledgment of duty owed. | |
| 14. n. (nautical) The materials used for serving a rope, etc., such as spun yarn and small lines. | |
| 15. v. To serve. | |
| They service the customer base. | |
| 16. v. To perform maintenance. | |
| He is going to service the car. | |
| 17. v. (transitive, agriculture, euphemistic) To inseminate through sexual intercourse | |
| 18. v. (transitive, vulgar) To perform a sexual act. | |
| He was going to service her. | |
| 19. n. service tree | |
