How to pronounce “serve”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• (sports) An act of putting the ball or shuttlecock in play in various games.
• (chiefly Australia) A portion of food or drink, a serving.
• (gay slang and African-American Vernacular) An impressive presentation (especially of a person's appearance).
• [Verb]
• (personal) To provide a service (or, by extension, a product, especially food or drink).
• (transitive, archaic) To treat (someone) in a given manner. [from 13th c.]
• (transitive, archaic) To be suitor to; to be the lover of. [from 14th c.]
• To be effective.
• (transitive, law) To deliver a document in such a way that the recipient can be legally considered to be informed of it.
• (transitive, intransitive, sports) To lead off with the first delivery over the net in tennis, volleyball, ping pong, badminton etc. [from 16th c.]
• (transitive) To copulate with (of male animals); to cover. [from 16th c.]
• (intransitive) To be in military service. [from 16th c.]
• (transitive, military) To work, to operate (a weapon). [from 18th c.]
• (transitive) To work through (a given period of time in prison, a sentence). [from 19th c.]
• (nautical) To wind spun yarn etc. tightly around (a rope or cable, etc.) so as to protect it from chafing or from the weather.
• (transitive) To perform (a public obligation).
• (ambitransitive, slang, drugs) To provide crack cocaine (to), usually by selling, dealing, or distributing.
• (LGBTQ slang and African-American Vernacular) To present an attractive personal appearance.

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