Service

service
    n 1: work done by one person or group that benefits another;
         "budget separately for goods and services"
    2: an act of help or assistance; "he did them a service" [ant:
       {disservice}, {ill service}, {ill turn}]
    3: the act of public worship following prescribed rules; "the
       Sunday service" [syn: {service}, {religious service}, {divine
       service}]
    4: a company or agency that performs a public service; subject
       to government regulation
    5: employment in or work for another; "he retired after 30 years
       of service"
    6: a force that is a branch of the armed forces [syn: {military
       service}, {armed service}, {service}]
    7: Canadian writer (born in England) who wrote about life in the
       Yukon Territory (1874-1958) [syn: {Service}, {Robert William
       Service}]
    8: a means of serving; "of no avail"; "there's no help for it"
       [syn: {avail}, {help}, {service}]
    9: tableware consisting of a complete set of articles (silver or
       dishware) for use at table [syn: {service}, {table service}]
    10: the act of mating by male animals; "the bull was worth good
        money in servicing fees" [syn: {servicing}, {service}]
    11: (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
    12: (sports) a stroke that puts the ball in play; "his powerful
        serves won the game" [syn: {serve}, {service}]
    13: the act of delivering a writ or summons upon someone; "he
        accepted service of the subpoena" [syn: {service},
        {serving}, {service of process}]
    14: periodic maintenance on a car or machine; "it was time for
        an overhaul on the tractor" [syn: {overhaul}, {inspection
        and repair}, {service}]
    15: the performance of duties by a waiter or servant; "that
        restaurant has excellent service"
    v 1: be used by; as of a utility; "The sewage plant served the
         neighboring communities"; "The garage served to shelter his
         horses" [syn: {service}, {serve}]
    2: make fit for use; "service my truck"; "the washing machine
       needs to be serviced"
    3: mate with; "male animals serve the females for breeding
       purposes" [syn: {serve}, {service}]
    

Service \Serv"ice\, n., or Service \Serv"ice\ [Properly, the
   tree which bears serve, OE. serves, pl., service berries, AS.
   syrfe service tree; akin to L. sorbus.] (Bot.)
   A name given to several trees and shrubs of the genus
   {Pyrus}, as {Pyrus domestica} and {Pyrus torminalis} of
   Europe, the various species of mountain ash or rowan tree,
   and the American shad bush (see {Shad bush}, under {Shad}).
   They have clusters of small, edible, applelike berries.
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   {Service berry} (Bot.), the fruit of any kind of service
      tree. In British America the name is especially applied to
      that of the several species or varieties of the shad bush
      ({Amelanchier}.)
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Service \Serv"ice\, n. [OE. servise, OF. servise, service, F.
   service, from L. servitium. See {Serve}.]
   1. The act of serving; the occupation of a servant; the
      performance of labor for the benefit of another, or at
      another's command; attendance of an inferior, hired
      helper, slave, etc., on a superior, employer, master, or
      the like; also, spiritual obedience and love. "O God . . .
      whose service is perfect freedom." --Bk. of Com. Prayer.
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            Madam, I entreat true peace of you,
            Which I will purchase with my duteous service.
                                                  --Shak.
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            God requires no man's service upon hard and
            unreasonable terms.                   --Tillotson.
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   2. The deed of one who serves; labor performed for another;
      duty done or required; office.
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            I have served him from the hour of my nativity, . .
            . and have nothing at his hands for my service but
            blows.                                --Shak.
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            This poem was the last piece of service I did for my
            master, King Charles.                 --Dryden.
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            To go on the forlorn hope is a service of peril; who
            will understake it if it be not also a service of
            honor?                                --Macaulay.
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   3. Office of devotion; official religious duty performed;
      religious rites appropriate to any event or ceremonial;
      as, a burial service.
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            The outward service of ancient religion, the rites,
            ceremonies, and ceremonial vestments of the old law.
                                                  --Coleridge.
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   4. Hence, a musical composition for use in churches.
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   5. Duty performed in, or appropriate to, any office or
      charge; official function; hence, specifically, military
      or naval duty; performance of the duties of a soldier.
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            When he cometh to experience of service abroad . . .
            ne maketh a worthy soldier.           --Spenser.
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   6. Useful office; advantage conferred; that which promotes
      interest or happiness; benefit; avail.
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            The stork's plea, when taken in a net, was the
            service she did in picking up venomous creatures.
                                                  --L'Estrange.
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   7. Profession of respect; acknowledgment of duty owed. "Pray,
      do my service to his majesty." --Shak.
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   8. The act and manner of bringing food to the persons who eat
      it; order of dishes at table; also, a set or number of
      vessels ordinarily used at table; as, the service was
      tardy and awkward; a service of plate or glass.
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            There was no extraordinary service seen on the
            board.                                --Hakewill.
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   9. (Law) The act of bringing to notice, either actually or
      constructively, in such manner as is prescribed by law;
      as, the service of a subp[oe]na or an attachment.
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   10. (Naut.) The materials used for serving a rope, etc., as
       spun yarn, small lines, etc.
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   11. (Tennis) The act of serving the ball.
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   12. Act of serving or covering. See {Serve}, v. t., 13.
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   {Service book}, a prayer book or missal.

   {Service line} (Tennis), a line parallel to the net, and at a
      distance of 21 feet from it.

   {Service of a writ}, {process}, etc. (Law), personal delivery
      or communication of the writ or process, etc., to the
      party to be affected by it, so as to subject him to its
      operation; the reading of it to the person to whom notice
      is intended to be given, or the leaving of an attested
      copy with the person or his attorney, or at his usual
      place of abode.

   {Service of an attachment} (Law), the seizing of the person
      or goods according to the direction.

   {Service of an execution} (Law), the levying of it upon the
      goods, estate, or person of the defendant.

   {Service pipe}, a pipe connecting mains with a dwelling, as
      in gas pipes, and the like. --Tomlinson.

   {To accept service}. (Law) See under {Accept}.

   {To see service} (Mil.), to do duty in the presence of the
      enemy, or in actual war.
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Rounding \Round"ing\, n.
   1. (Naut.) Small rope, or strands of rope, or spun yarn,
      wound round a rope to keep it from chafing; -- called also
      {service}.
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   2. (Phonetics) Modifying a speech sound by contraction of the
      lip opening; labializing; labialization. See Guide to
      Pronunciation, [sect] 11.
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service

   <networking, programming> Work performed (or offered) by a
   {server}.  This may mean simply serving simple requests for
   data to be sent or stored (as with {file servers}, {gopher} or
   {http} servers, {e-mail} servers, {finger} servers, {SQL}
   servers, etc.); or it may be more complex work, such as that
   of {irc} servers, print servers, {X Windows} servers, or
   process servers.

   E.g. "Access to the finger {service} is restricted to the
   local {subnet}, for security reasons".

   (1997-09-11)
    

SERVICE, feudal law. That duty which the tenant owes to his lord, by reason 
of his fee or estate. 
     2. The services, in respect of their quality, were either free or base, 
and in respect of their quantity and the time of exacting them, were either 
certain or uncertain. 2 Bl. Com. 62. 
     3. In the civil law by service is sometimes understood servitude. 
(q.v.) 
    

SERVICE, practice. To execute a writ or process; as, to serve a writ of 
capias signifies to arrest a defendant under the process; Kirby, 48; 2 Aik. 
R. 338; 11 Mass. 181; to serve a summons, is to deliver a copy of it at the 
house of the party, or to deliver it to him personally, or to read it to 
him; notices and other papers are served by delivering the same at the house 
of the party, or to him in person. 
     2. When the service of a writ is prevented by the act of the party on 
whom it is to be served, it will, in general, be sufficient if the officer 
do everything in his power to serve it. 39 Eng. C. L. R. 431 1 M. & G. 238. 
    

SERVICE, contracts. The being employed to serve another. 
     2. In cases of seduction, the gist of the action is not injury which 
the seducer has inflicted on the parent by destroying his peace of mind, and 
the reputation of his child, but for the consequent inability to perform 
those services for which she was accountable to her master or her parent who 
assumes this character for the purpose Vide Seduction, and 2 Mees. & W. 539; 
7 Car. & P. 528. 
    

382 Moby Thesaurus words for "service":
      American plan, European plan, Mass, a la carte, accommodation,
      account, acquiescence, act of grace, act of kindness, action,
      active service, activities, activity, advantage, advice, affair,
      affairs, agency, aid, air force, allegiance, amenities, antepast,
      applicability, appointment, appropriateness, arm, armed forces,
      army, assignment, assistance, attendance, avail,
      baccalaureate service, bag, ball, be intimate, bedtime prayer,
      behalf, behoof, benefaction, benefit, benevolence, benignity,
      berth, billet, blessing, bowl, branch, business, busywork,
      camp meeting, care, cast, celebration, ceremonial, ceremony,
      change of pace, change-up, chare, charge, checking, chore, chuck,
      chunk, church, church service, cobble, cohabit, combat,
      come together, comfort, commencement, commerce, commission,
      commit adultery, compliance, compline, concern, concernment,
      condition, conformity, convenience, convocation, copulate, couple,
      course, courtesy, couvert, cover, cover charge, curve, darn,
      dessert, device, devotions, diddle, dish, dispensation,
      divine service, do up, doctor, downcurve, duteousness, dutifulness,
      duty, ease, employ, employment, empty formality, engagement,
      enterprise, entree, entremets, errand, evening devotions, evensong,
      exercise, exercises, expedient, faith, fastball, favor, fealty,
      fighting, fish to fry, fitness, fix, fix up, fling, flip, form,
      form of worship, formal, formality, formula, formulary, fornicate,
      forward pass, frig, function, gear, gig, going between, good deed,
      good offices, good turn, grace, graduation, graduation exercises,
      handling, have sex, have sexual relations, heave, help, helping,
      holy rite, homage, homework, hurl, inaugural, inauguration,
      incumbency, incurve, indulgence, inferiority, initiation,
      institution, instrumentality, interest, intermediation, job,
      job of work, juniority, kind deed, kind offices, kindly act,
      kindness, knuckleball, labor, labor of love, lateral, lateral pass,
      lauds, lay, lie with, liturgy, lob, lookout, lower status, loyalty,
      machinery, maintenance, make it with, make love, make out,
      make-work, marines, mate, matins, matter, matters in hand,
      mechanism, mediation, meeting, mend, mending, mercy, military,
      ministration, ministry, mission, mitzvah, mode of worship,
      moonlighting, morning devotions, mount, mummery, mystery,
      national service, navy, night song, none, nones, novena, obedience,
      obediency, obligation, observance, occupation, odd job, office,
      offices, opening, order of worship, ordinance, ordinary, outcurve,
      overhaul, pass, patch, patch up, peg, peonage, percentage,
      performance, piece of work, pitch, place, plate, point, portion,
      position, post, practice, praise meeting, prayer, prayer meeting,
      prayers, prescribed form, prime, prime song, profit, project,
      protection, public worship, put, put in commission, put in order,
      put in repair, put in shape, ready, recap, recondition, recourse,
      relevance, relief, religious ceremony, remedy, repair, rescue,
      resort, retread, revival, revival meeting, rig, rigging, rite,
      rite de passage, rite of passage, ritual, ritual observance,
      rituality, ropework, roping, running rigging, sacrament,
      sacramental, satellite status, screw, screwball, second helping,
      second job, selective service, self-service, serfdom, serve,
      serviceability, services, servility, serving, servitium,
      servitorship, servitude, set to rights, sew up, sext, shot-put,
      shy, sinker, situation, slavery, sleep with, slider, sling,
      solemnity, solemnization, spitball, spitter, standing rigging,
      station, stint, subjecthood, submission, submissiveness,
      subordinacy, subordinate role, subordination, subservience,
      subserviency, succor, suit and service, suit service, support,
      tackle, tackling, talents, task, tendance, tent meeting, tenure,
      therapy, thing, things to do, throw, tierce, tinker, tinker up,
      toss, turn, undersong, undertaking, upcurve, usage, use,
      usefulness, utility, utilization, vacancy, value, vesper, vespers,
      vigils, waiting, watch meeting, watch night, watch-night service,
      whipping, willingness, work, worship, worth