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Vinony

service

verb

  1. do things to, like maintenance
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noun

  1. intangible product
  2. religious worship event
  3. computer software responding to requests
  4. act of serving
  5. technique in several sports (tennis, badminton, table tennis, volleyball etc.)
  6. performace of routine tasks, typically maintenance
  7. delivery of something to a recipient
L34549 on Wikidata ↗

Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈsɜːvɪs/ / [ˈsɜːvɪs] / /ˈsɝvɪs/

name

  1. A surname.
  2. An unincorporated community in Crawford County, Missouri, United States.

noun

Etymology: Properly, the tree that bears sorb fruit, from Middle English serves, plural of serve (“sorb apple, serviceberry”), from Old English syrfe, from Vulgar Latin *sorbea, from Latin sorbus (“service tree”). See sorb.

  1. Service tree.
  2. The sorb; the fruit of this tree.

verb

Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ser-der.? Proto-Italic *serwos Latin servus Proto-Indo-European *-yós Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin -ia Latin -itia Latin servitiumbor. Old French servisebor. Old English serfis Middle English servise English service From Middle English servise, from Old English serfis, from Old French servise (French service), from the verb servir, from Latin servitium (compare Portuguese serviço, Italian servizio, Norman sèrvice, Spanish servicio), from servus (“servant; serf; slave”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ser-wo-s (“guardian”), possibly from *ser- (“watch over, protect”). Displaced native Old English þeġnung.

  1. To serve.

    “They service the customer base.”

    “The USS Manila Bay, in the next group south of Taffy 3, services aircraft from eleven different squadrons that aren't attached to her own flight group, and, at one point, has representatives from no less than four other carriers' airgroups on her flight deck at the same time.”

  2. To serve.

    “He is going to service the car.”

    “2 GWM businessmen seek young GM to service nice small country home in So. NH”

  3. To serve.

    “One obvious way is press releases, which should be sent to your region's reporters, editors and columnists, the wire services, professional publications. […] Servicing the media should be an everyday thing.”

    “[…] instead of expending so much of their PR effort on servicing the media.”

  4. To make a repayment or pay interest (on a debt).

    “It continues to be laden with intense debt servicing costs.”

  5. To inseminate through sexual intercourse.
  6. To perform a sexual act upon.

    “He serviced her several times a week.”

  7. To attack.

    “to service a target”

    “target servicing”