service
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m) (French: (m)), from the verb (m) < (etyl) (m), from .
Noun
(en noun)
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.
* , chapter=4
, title= Mr. Pratt’s Patients
, passage=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.}}
(economics) The practice of providing such a service as economic activity.
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* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-21, author=(Oliver Burkeman)
, volume=189, issue=2, page=27, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= The tao of tech
, passage=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”,
(computing) A function that is provided by one program or machine for another.
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The state of being subordinate to or employed by an individual or group
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The military.
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A set of dishes or utensils.
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(sports) The act of initially starting, or serving, the ball in play in tennis, volleyball, and other games.
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A religious rite or ritual.
* , chapter=5
, title= The Mirror and the Lamp
, passage=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.}}
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(legal) The serving, or delivery, of a summons or writ.
* 1668 July 3, , “Thomas Rue contra” Andrew Hou?toun” in ”The Deci?ions of the Lords of Council & Se??ion I (Edinburgh, 1683), page 548 :
- He Su?pends on the?e Rea?ons, that Thomas Rue” had granted a general Di?charge to ”Adam Mu?het”, who was his Conjunct, and ”correus debendi”, after the alleadged Service , which Di?charged ”Mu?het”, and con?equently ”Houstoun his Partner.
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(Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Israel, West Bank) A taxi shared among unrelated passengers, each of whom pays part of the fare; often, it has a fixed route between cities.
A musical composition for use in churches.
(obsolete) Profession of respect; acknowledgment of duty owed.
* Shakespeare
- Pray, do my service to his majesty.
(nautical) The materials used for serving a rope, etc., such as spun yarn and small lines.
Usage notes
In British English, the indefinite article “a” is often used with “good service”, as in “A good service is operating on all London Underground lines,” while this is not used in American English.
Antonyms
* (action or work that is produced and consumed) good
* capital
Derived terms
* accept service
* advisory service
* all-up service
* answering service
* bond service
* church service
* civil service
* client service
* community service
* curb service
* customer service
* debt service
* denial of service
* denture service
* dinner service
* diplomatic service
* disservice
* divine service
* ecological service
* emergency service
* escort service
* extension service
* eyeservice
* fanservice
* fee-for-service
* food service
* foreign service
* full-service
* health service
* ill service
* in service
* lip service
* memorial service
* military service
* multiservice
* national service
* online service
* out of service
* personal service
* postal service
* power service
* prayer service
* public service
* quality of service
* room service
* secret service
* Secret Service
* selective service
* self-service
* service area
* service book
* service break
* service bureau
* service call
* service cap
* service ceiling
* service center
* service charge
* service club
* service contract
* service court
* service dog
* service door
* service elevator
* service line
* service loop
* service mark
* service module
* service of process
* service pipe
* service plaza
* service provider
* service road
* service station
* service stripe
* serviceman
* servicewoman
* shared service
* silent service
* silver service
* social service
* substituted service
* table service
* tea service
* unservice
* unserviced
* web service
* wire service
* yeoman’s service
Verb
(servic)
To serve.
- They service the customer base.
To perform maintenance.
- He is going to service the car.
(transitive, agriculture, euphemistic) To inseminate through sexual intercourse
(vulgar) To perform a sexual act.
- He was going to service her.
Descendants
* Japanese:
* Korean:
Etymology 2
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process
English
Noun
(es)
A series of events to produce a result, especially as contrasted to product.
* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=September 27, author=Alistair Magowan, work=BBC Sport
, title= Bayern Munich 2-0 Man City
, passage=But they came up against an impressive force in Bayern, who extended their run to 10 wins on the trot, having scored 28 goals in the process and conceding none.}}
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=68, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= T time
, passage=Yet in “Through a Latte, Darkly”, a new study of how Starbucks has largely avoided paying tax in Britain, Edward Kleinbard […] shows that current tax rules make it easy for all sorts of firms to generate what he calls “stateless income”: […]. In Starbucks’s case, the firm has in effect turned the process of making an expensive cup of coffee into intellectual property.}}
- This product of last month’s quality standards committee is quite good, even though the process was flawed.
(legal) The act of serving a defendant with a summons or a writ.
(biology) An outgrowth of tissue or cell.
(anatomy) A structure that arises above a surface.
(computing) A task or program that is or was executing.
(manufacturing) A set of procedures used to produce a product, most commonly in the food and chemical industries.
* 1960‘, Mack Tyner, ””’Process”’ Engineering Calculations: Material and Energy Balances” – Ordinarily a ”’process”’ plant will use a steam boiler to supply its ‘ process heat requirements and to drive a steam-turbine generator.
* 1987‘, J. R. Richards, ”Principles of control system design” in ”Modelling and control of fermentation ”’process”’es” – The words ”plant” or ””’process””’ infer generally any dynamic system, be it primarily mechanical, electrical, or chemical ‘ process in nature, and may extend also to include social or economic systems.
A path of succession of states through which a system passes.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2012-01
, author=Robert L. Dorit
, title=Rereading Darwin
, volume=100, issue=1, page=23
, magazine=
citation
, passage=We live our lives in three dimensions for our threescore and ten allotted years. Yet every branch of contemporary science, from statistics to cosmology, alludes to processes that operate on scales outside of human experience: the millisecond and the nanometer, the eon and the light-year.}}
(lb) Successive physiological responses to keep or restore health.
Derived terms
* due process
* due process of law
* due-process
* process color, process colour
* process hot water
* process server
* process upset
Verb
(es)
To perform a particular process.
- We have processed the data using our proven techniques, and have come to the following conclusions.
To treat with a substance
To think an information over, or a concept, in order to assimilate it, and perhaps accept it as valid.
Etymology 2
Verb
(es)
(mostly British) To walk in a procession.
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