service

Significado

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.

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ˈsɜːvɪs/

Etimoloxía

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.

Oracións

It has a strong trade and advanced service sector .

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