serve

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  1. transitive verb To work for.
  2. transitive verb To be a servant to.
  3. transitive verb To prepare and offer (food, for example): serve tea.
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  • The AAA Texas gasoline price survey released Friday says regular self-serve is averaging —  KFDM.com Breaking News : News
  • The AAA Texas gasoline price survey released Friday says regular self-serve is averaging $1.47 per gallon across the state, a drop of 7 cents from last week and of 50 percent from a year ago. —  A1 HOME - Top Stories
  • 'Those in the public sector work hard to do what's best for the businesses and citizens they serve, which is clearly shown by the hundreds of transparency initiatives you will find on the transparent-gov site,' continued Herington.
  • Murray's impressive serving and frequent serve-volley tactics saw him rarely troubled on serve, and he was equally aggressive from the baseline, crunching a couple of clean winners for the double break at 5-2 as he took the first set. —  BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition
  • But another member of the list-serve, an Arab-American academic chimed in. —  Capitol Hill Blue - The oldest political news site on the Internet
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mouthful ·  eat ·  helping ·  stainless-steel ·  swig ·  pewter ·  dessert ·  spoonful

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serve:   Serve ·  serving ·  served ·  serves
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English serven, from Old French servir, from Latin servīre, from servus, slave.

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  1. from Middle English serven, scrvien, scrfen, from Old French (and F.)servir = Provencal servir, sirvir = Spanish Portuguese servir = Italian servire, from Latin servire, serve; allied to L. servus, a slave, servare, keep, protect, from √ sar, protect, = Zend har, protect, haurva, protecting. From the same Latin source (servus, servire) are also ult. English serf, servant, sergeant, deserve, disserve, misserve, subserve, desert, etc. In the Middle English sense, ‘deserve,’ the word is in part an aphetic form of deserve.
  2. from Middle English serve; apparently from Old French *sorbe, French sorbe = Spanish sorba, serba = Portuguese sorva = Italian sorba, feminine, service-berry, sorbo, masculine, service-tree, from Latin sorbus, feminine, the service-tree, sorbum, neuter, its fruit: see sorb, and cf. service.
 

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