service

1. (n) An act of being of assistance to someone. 2. (n) The state of being subordinate to or employed by an individual or group. 3. (n) (elliptical, uncountable) Work as a member of the military. 4. (n) (economics) The practice of providing assistance as economic activity. 5. (n) (business) Synonym of utility (“commodity provided on a continuous basis by a physical infrastructure network, such as electricity, water supply or sewerage”). 6. (n) A department in a company, organization, or institution. 7. (n) (computing) A function that is provided by one program or machine for another. 8. (n) (with the) The military. 9. (n) A set of dishes or utensils. 10. (n) (sports) The act of initially starting, or serving, the ball in play in tennis, volleyball, and other games. 11. (n) A religious rite or ritual. 12. (n) (law) The serving, or delivery, of a summons or writ. 13. (n) (Israel, West Bank, also in Jordan, Lebanon and Syria) A taxi shared among unrelated passengers, each of whom pays part of the fare; often, it has a fixed route between cities. 14. (n) A musical composition for use in churches. 15. (n) (nautical) The materials used for serving a rope, etc., such as spun yarn and small lines. 16. (n) Access to resources such as hotel rooms and Web-based videos without transfer of the resources' ownership. 17. (v) (transitive) To serve. 18. (v) (transitive) To perform maintenance. 19. (v) (public relations, transitive) To supply (media outlets) with press releases etc. 20. (v) (transitive) To make a repayment or pay interest (on a debt). 21. (v) (transitive, agriculture, euphemistic) To inseminate through sexual intercourse. 22. (v) (transitive, vulgar) To perform a sexual act upon. 23. (v) (transitive, military, euphemistic) To attack. 24. (n) Service tree. 25. (n) The sorb; the fruit of this tree. 26. (n) (obsolete) Profession of respect; acknowledgment of duty owed. 27. (n) An unincorporated community in Crawford County, Missouri, United States. 28. (n) A surname.