| serving |
| 1. adj. That or who serves or serve. | |
| serving marines | |
| a serving-girl | |
| 2. n. The action of the verb to serve. | |
| 3. n. A portion (especially, of a meal) served to someone. | |
| 4. n. A layer added to the outside of an electrical cable to protect it. | |
| 5. v. present participle of serve | |
| serve |
| 1. n. (sports) An act of putting the ball or shuttlecock in play in various games. | |
| Whose serve is it? | |
| 2. n. (chiefly Australia) A portion of food or drink, a serving. | |
| 3. v. (personal) To provide a service. | |
| 4. v. To be a formal servant for (a god or deity); to worship in an official capacity. | |
| 5. v. To be a servant for; to work for, to be employed by. | |
| 6. v. To wait upon (someone) at table; to set food and drink in front of, to help (someone) to food, meals etc. | |
| 7. v. (intransitive) To be a servant or worker; to perform the duties of a servant or employee; to render service. | |
| 8. v. To set down (food or drink) on the table to be eaten; to bring (food, drink) to a person. | |
| 9. v. (transitive, archaic) To treat (someone) in a given manner. | |
| 10. v. (transitive, archaic) To be suitor to; to be the lover of. | |
| 11. v. To be effective. | |
| 12. v. To be useful to; to meet the needs of. | |
| 13. v. (intransitive) To have a given use or purpose; to function for something or to do something. | |
| 14. v. (intransitive) To usefully take the place as, instead of something else. | |
| 15. v. (transitive, legal) To deliver a document. | |
| 16. v. To officially deliver (a legal notice, summons etc.). | |
| 17. v. To make legal service upon (a person named in a writ, summons, etc.) | |
| to serve a witness with a subpoena | |
| 18. v. (transitive, intransitive, sports) To lead off with the first delivery over the net in tennis, volleyball, ping pong, badminton etc. | |
| 19. v. To copulate with (of male animals); to cover. | |
| 20. v. (intransitive) To be in military service. | |
| 21. v. (transitive, military) To work, to operate (a weapon). | |
| 22. v. To work through (a given period of time in prison, a sentence). | |
| 23. v. (nautical) To wind spun yarn etc. tightly around (a rope or cable, etc.) so as to protect it from chafing or from the weather. | |
| 24. v. To perform a public obligation. | |
| I've received a summons for jury duty. It says I serve one day or one trial. | |
| to |
| 1. part. A particle used for marking the following verb as an infinitive. | |
| I want to leave. | |
| He asked me what to do. | |
| I don’t know how to say it. | |
| I have places to go and people to see. | |
| 2. part. As above, with the verb implied. | |
| "Did you visit the museum?" "I wanted to, but it was closed.". | |
| If he hasn't read it yet, he ought to. | |
| 3. part. A particle used to create phrasal verbs. | |
| I have to do laundry today. | |
| 4. prep. Indicating destination: In the direction of, and arriving at. | |
| We are walking to the shop. | |
| 5. prep. Used to indicate purpose. | |
| He devoted himself to education. | |
| They drank to his health. | |
| 6. prep. Used to indicate result of action. | |
| His face was beaten to a pulp. | |
| 7. prep. Used after an adjective to indicate its application. | |
| similar to ..., relevant to ..., pertinent to ..., I was nice to him, he was cruel to her, I am used to walking. | |
| 8. prep. (obsolete,) As a. | |
| With God to friend (with God as a friend); with The Devil to fiend (with the Devil as a foe); lambs slaughtered to lake (lambs slaughtered as a sacrifice); t | |
| 9. prep. (arithmetic) Used to indicate a ratio or comparison. | |
| one to one = 1:1 | |
| ten to one = 10:1. | |
| I have ten dollars to your four. | |
| 10. prep. (arithmetic) Used to indicate that the preceding term is to be raised to the power of the following value; indicates exponentiation. | |
| Three squared or three to the second power is nine. | |
| Three to the power of two is nine. | |
| Three to the second is nine. | |
| 11. prep. Used to indicate the indirect object. | |
| I gave the book to him. | |
| 12. prep. (time) Preceding. | |
| ten to ten = 9:50; We're going to leave at ten to (the hour). | |
| 13. prep. Used to describe what something consists of or contains. | |
| Anyone could do this job; there's nothing to it. | |
| There's a lot of sense to what he says. | |
| 14. prep. (Canada, UK, Newfoundland, West Midlands) At. | |
| Stay where you're to and I'll come find you, b'y. | |
| 15. adv. Toward a closed, touching or engaging position. | |
| Please push the door to. | |
| 16. adv. (nautical) Into the wind. | |
| 17. adv. misspelling of too | |
| caution |
| 1. n. Precept or warning against evil or danger of any kind; exhortation to wariness; advice; injunction; prudence in regard to danger; provident care | |
| 2. n. A careful attention to the probable effects of an act, in order that failure or harm may be avoided | |
| 3. n. Security; guaranty; bail. | |
| 4. n. One who draws attention or causes astonishment by their behaviour. | |
| Oh, that boy, he's a caution! He does make me laugh. | |
| 5. n. (law) A formal warning given as an alternative to prosecution in minor cases. | |
| 6. n. (soccer) A yellow card. | |
| 7. v. To warn; to alert, advise that caution is warranted. | |
| 8. v. (soccer) To give a yellow card | |
| or |
| 1. conj. Connects at least two alternative words, phrases, clauses, sentences, etc. each of which could make a passage true. In English, this is the "inclusive or." The "exclusive or" is formed by "either(...) | |
| In Ohio, anyone under the age of 18 who wants a tattoo or body piercing needs the consent of a parent or guardian. | |
| He might get cancer, or be hit by a bus, or God knows what. | |
| 2. conj. (logic) An operator denoting the disjunction of two propositions or truth values. There are two forms, the inclusive or and the exclusive or. | |
| 3. conj. Counts the elements before and after as two possibilities. | |
| 4. conj. Otherwise (a consequence of the condition that the previous is false). | |
| It's raining! Come inside or you'll catch a cold! | |
| 5. conj. Connects two equivalent names. | |
| The country Myanmar, or Burma | |
| 6. n. (logic, electronics) alternative form of OR | |
| 7. n. (tincture) The gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms. | |
| 8. adj. (tincture) Of gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms. | |
| 9. adv. (obsolete) Early (on). | |
| 10. adv. (obsolete) Earlier, previously. | |
| 11. prep. (now archaic, or dialect) Before; ere. | |
| warn |
| 1. v. To make (someone) aware of (something impending); especially: | |
| 2. v. To make (someone) aware of impending danger, evil, etc. | |
| We waved a flag to warn the oncoming traffic about the accident. | |
| I phoned to warn him of the road closure. | |
| 3. v. To notify or inform (someone, about something). | |
| I warned him he'd be getting a huge box of birthday presents from me. | |
| 4. v. To summon (someone) to or inform of a formal meeting or duty. | |
| The sheriff warned her to appear in court. | |
| 5. v. (ambitransitive, of a clock, possibly, obsolete) To make a sound (e.g. clicking or whirring) indicating that it is about to strike or chime (an hour). | |
| 6. v. To caution or admonish (someone) against unwise or unacceptable behaviour. | |
| He was warned against crossing the railway tracks at night. | |
| Don't let me catch you running in the corridor again, I warn you. | |
| 7. v. (chiefly with "off", "away", and similar words) To advise or order to go or stay away. | |
| A sign warns trespassers off/away from the site. | |
| 8. v. (intransitive) To give warning. | |
| admonitory |
| 1. adj. Of or pertaining to an admonition; serving to reprove, warn or advise. | |
| The schoolboy left an admonitory message on the bathroom wall. | |
| He wagged an admonitory finger at the culprit. | |
