| 单词 | service |
| 释义 | service (once / 34 pages) 1n 2nv 3nv 4nv 5n 6n 7n 8n 9n If you perform duties that help someone else, you're providing a service. If you make dinner for your neighbor's children while she's in the hospital, you're doing a good service. Service has many uses, all having to do with serving someone, or doing something for them. In a restaurant the waiter provides service, and if you do something nice for someone, you've done him a good service. If you're in someone's service that means you work for her. Service can also mean a verb meaning "to fix," like when the maintenance whiz services the photocopier, or the mechanic services your car. In church, a ceremony is also called a service. WORD FAMILYservice: self-service, serviceable, serviced, services, servicing+/serviceable: serviceability, serviceableness, serviceably, unserviceable USAGE EXAMPLESDirecTV Now is the latest online TV service to offer an alternative to cable or satellite packages that can easily cost about $100 a month. Washington Times(Dec 01, 2016) It would also clear the way for European industry to start building a second "service module" for America’s forthcoming crewship known as Orion. BBC(Dec 01, 2016) Residents pay taxes to Israel, but the camp is barely serviced. New York Times(Dec 01, 2016) 1 1n an act of help or assistance he did them a service Ant|Hypo|Hyper disservice, ill service, ill turn an act intended to help that turns out badly child care, childcare a service involving care for other people's children community servicean unpaid service for the benefit of the public that is performed by lawbreakers as part (or all) of their sentence community service, public servicea service that is performed for the benefit of the public or its institutions help desk, helpdeska service that provides information and assistance to the users of a computer network seatingthe service of ushering people to their seats day care, daycarechildcare during the day while parents work aid, assist, assistance, help the activity of contributing to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose 2n work done by one person or group that benefits another budget separately for goods and services Hypo|Hyper consulting service service provided by a professional advisor (e.g., a lawyer or doctor or CPA etc.) facilitya service that an organization or a piece of equipment offers you national servicecompulsory service in the military during peacetime utilitythe service (electric power or water or transportation) provided by a public utility advisory servicea consulting service in which a CPA develops findings and conclusions and recommendations that are presented to the client for consideration and decision making attestation report, attestation servicea consulting service in which a CPA expresses a conclusion about the reliability of a written statement that is the responsibility of someone else work activity directed toward making or doing something 3n a means of serving Syn|Hyper avail, help helpfulness the property of providing useful assistance 4n employment in or work for another he retired after 30 years of service Hyper employment, work the occupation for which you are paid 5n the performance of duties by a waiter or servant that restaurant has excellent service Hypo|Hyper curb service service provided to customers who remain in their vehicles self-servicethe practice of serving yourself (as in a grocery or cafeteria) valet parkinga service provided (at a club or restaurant or airport etc.) whereby a patron leaves a car at the entrance and an attendant parks and retrieves it accommodation the act of providing something (lodging or seat or food) to meet a need 6n (law) the acts performed by an English feudal tenant for the benefit of his lord which formed the consideration for the property granted to him 2Hypo|Hyper socage land tenure by agricultural service or payment of rent; not burdened with military service military serviceland tenure by service in the lord's army knight's serviceland tenure by service to the lord as a knight activity any specific behavior 1n a company or agency that performs a public service; subject to government regulation Hypo|Hyper public utility, public utility company, public-service corporation, utility a company that performs a public service; subject to government regulation phone company, phone service, telco, telephone company, telephone servicea public utility that provides telephone service electric company, light company, power company, power servicea public utility that provides electricity water company, waterworksa public utility that provides water gas company, gas servicea public utility that provides gas bus company, bus servicea public utility providing local transportation company an institution created to conduct business 2v be used by; as of a utility 3Syn|Hyper serve function, serve serve a purpose, role, or function function, go, operate, run, work perform as expected when applied 1n the act of mating by male animals the bull was worth good money in servicing fees Syn|Hyper servicing conjugation, coupling, mating, pairing, sexual union, union the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes 2v mate with 4Syn|Hypo serve stand be available for stud services 1n periodic maintenance on a car or machine Syn|Hypo|Hyper inspection and repair, overhaul interim overhaul an overhaul between the regular times for overhauling care, maintenance, upkeep activity involved in maintaining something in good working order 2v make fit for use 5service my truck the washing machine needs to be serviced Hyper tune, tune up adjust for (better) functioning n the act of delivering a writ or summons upon someone 6he accepted service of the subpoena Syn|Hyper service of process, serving bringing, delivery the act of delivering or distributing something (as goods or mail) n (sports) a stroke that puts the ball in play 7Syn|Hypo|Hyper serve ace a serve that the receiver is unable to reach fault(sports) a serve that is illegal (e.g., that lands outside the prescribed area) let, net balla serve that strikes the net before falling into the receiver's court; the ball must be served again double fault(tennis) two successive faults in serving resulting in the loss of the point footfaulta fault that occurs when the server in tennis fails to keep both feet behind the baseline tennis shot, tennis stroke the act of hitting a tennis ball with a tennis racket n tableware consisting of a complete set of articles (silver or dishware) for use at table 8Syn|Hypo|Hyper table service dinner service, dinner set a table service for serving dinner place setting, settinga table service for one person tableware articles for use at the table (dishes and silverware and glassware) n a force that is a branch of the armed forces 9Syn|Hypo|Hyper armed service, military service army, ground forces, regular army a permanent organization of the military land forces of a nation or state naval forces, navyan organization of military vessels belonging to a country and available for sea warfare coastguarda military service responsible for the safety of maritime traffic in coastal waters Marinesmembers of a body of troops trained to serve on land or at sea air force, airforcethe airborne branch of a country's armed forces host, legionarchaic terms for army U. 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Coast Guard, US Coast Guard, United States Coast Guardan agency of the Department of Transportation responsible for patrolling shores and facilitating nautical commerce Marine Corps, US Marine Corps, USMC, United States Marine Corps, United States Marinesan amphibious division of the United States Navy Air Corpsformerly the airborne division of the United States Army RAF, Royal Air Forcethe airforce of Great Britain German Luftwaffe, Luftwaffethe German airforce standing armya permanent army of paid soldiers Union Armythe northern army during the American Civil War Army of the Confederacy, Confederate Armythe southern army during the American Civil War Continental Armythe American army during the American Revolution force, personnel group of people willing to obey orders n the act of public worship following prescribed rules the Sunday service Syn|Hypo|Hyper divine service, religious service church, church service a service conducted in a house of worship devotionala short religious service prayer meeting, prayer servicea service at which people sing hymns and pray together chapel, chapel servicea service conducted in a place of worship that has its own altar committal serviceservice committing a body to the grave nonea service in the Roman Catholic Church formerly read or chanted at 3 PM (the ninth hour counting from sunrise) but now somewhat earlier vespera late afternoon or evening worship service watch nighta devotional service (especially on New Year's Eve) placebo(Roman Catholic Church) vespers of the office for the dead religious ceremony, religious ritual a ceremony having religious meaning Service (once / 300 pages) n WORD FAMILY Service USAGE EXAMPLESFrom 1968 until his death he was president and clinical psychologist at Behavior Service Consultants in Greenbelt. Washington Post(Jan 02, 2017) Paul Stacey of the Calgary Police Service said at a news conference. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) The National Weather Service issued a winter storm warning Monday for the Sierra’s eastern front north of Reno in effect until 4 p.m. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) n Canadian writer (born in England) who wrote about life in the Yukon Territory (1874-1958) Syn|Exp Robert William Service author, writer writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay) |
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