service

Significat (anglès)

Noun

1. An act of being of assistance to someone.
2. The state of being subordinate to or employed by an individual or group.
3. Work as a member of the military.
4. The practice of providing assistance as economic activity.
5. Synonym of utility (“commodity provided on a continuous basis by a physical infrastructure network, such as electricity, water supply or sewerage”).
6. A department in a company, organization, or institution.
7. A function that is provided by one program or machine for another.
8. The military.
9. A set of dishes or utensils.
10. The act of initially starting, or serving, the ball in play in tennis, volleyball, and other games.
11. A religious rite or ritual.
12. The serving, or delivery, of a summons or writ.
13. A taxi shared among unrelated passengers, each of whom pays part of the fare; often, it has a fixed route between cities.
14. A musical composition for use in churches.
15. (obsolete) Profession of respect; acknowledgment of duty owed.
16. The materials used for serving a rope, etc., such as spun yarn and small lines.
17. Access to resources such as hotel rooms and Web-based videos without transfer of the resources' ownership.

Verb

1. To serve.
2. To serve.
3. To serve.
4. To inseminate through sexual intercourse.
5. To perform a sexual act upon.
6. To attack.

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/ˈsɜːvɪs/

Etimologia (anglès)

From Middle English servise, 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.

Sents

It has a strong trade and advanced service sector .

Monday-Saturday, there is a half-hourly service to and southbound and to northbound .