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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
ward
1. n. (archaic, or obsolete) A guard; a guardian or watchman.
2. n. Protection, defence.
3. n. (obsolete) A guard or watchman; now replaced by warden.
4. n. The action of a watchman; monitoring, surveillance (usually in phrases keep ward etc.).
5. n. Guardianship, especially of a child or prisoner.
6. n. An enchantment or spell placed over a designated area, or a social unit, that prevents any tresspasser from entering, approaching or even from being ab
7. n. (historical, Scots law) Land tenure through military service.
8. n. (fencing) A guarding or defensive motion or position.
9. n. A protected place, and by extension, a type of subdivision.
10. n. (archaic) An area of a castle, corresponding to a circuit of the walls.
11. n. A section or subdivision of a prison.
12. n. An administrative division of a borough, city or council.
On our last visit to Tokyo, we went to Chiyoda ward and visited the Emperor's palace.
13. n. (UK) A division of a forest.
14. n. (Mormonism) A subdivision of the LDS Church, smaller than and part of a stake, but larger than a branch.
15. n. A part of a hospital, with beds, where patients reside.
16. n. A person under guardianship.
17. n. A minor looked after by a guardian.
After the trial, little Robert was declared a ward of the state.
18. n. (obsolete) An underage orphan.
19. n. An object used for guarding.
20. n. The ridges on the inside of a lock, or the incisions on a key.
21. v. To keep in safety, to watch over, to guard.
22. v. To defend, to protect.
23. v. To fend off, to repel, to turn aside, as anything mischievous that approaches; -- usually followed by off.
24. v. (intransitive) To be vigilant; to keep guard.
25. v. (intransitive) To act on the defensive with a weapon.
off
1. adv. In a direction away from the speaker or object.
He drove off in a cloud of smoke.
2. adv. Into a state of non-operation; into a state of non-existence.
Please switch off the light when you leave.
die off
3. adv. So as to be removed or separated.
He bit off more than he could chew.
Some branches were sawn off.
4. adj. Inoperative, disabled.
All the lights are off.
5. adj. Rancid, rotten.
This milk is off!
6. adj. (cricket) In, or towards the half of the field away from the batsman's legs; the right side for a right-handed batsman.
7. adj. Less than normal, in temperament or in result.
sales are off this quarter
8. adj. Circumstanced (as in well off, better off, poorly off).
9. adj. Started on the way.
off to see the wizard
And they're off! Whatsmyname takes an early lead, with Remember The Mane behind by a nose.
10. adj. Far; off to the side.
the off horse or ox in a team, in distinction from the nigh or near horse
11. adj. Designating a time when one is not strictly attentive to business or affairs, or is absent from a post, and, hence, a time when affairs are not urgent.
He took an off day for fishing. an off year in politics; the off season
12. adj. (of a dish on a menu) Presently unavailable.
— I'll have the chicken please.
— Sorry, chicken's off today.
13. adj. Right-hand (in relation to the side of a horse or a vehicle).
14. prep. Used to indicate movement away from a position on
I took it off the table.
Come off the roof!
15. prep. (colloquial) Out of the possession of.
He didn't buy it off him. He stole it off him.
16. prep. Away from or not on.
He's off the computer, but he's still on the phone.
Keep off the grass.
17. prep. Disconnected or subtracted from.
We've been off the grid for three days now.
He took 20% off the list price.
18. prep. Distant from.
We're just off the main road.
The island is 23 miles off the cape.
19. prep. No longer wanting or taking.
He's been off his feed since Tuesday.
He's off his meds again.
20. prep. Placed after a number (of products or parts, as if a unit), in commerce or engineering(topics, en, Engineering).
Tantalum bar 6 off 3/8" Dia × 12" — Atom, Great Britain Atomic Energy Authority, 1972
samples submitted … 12 off Thermistors type 1K3A531 … — BSI test report for shock and vibration testing, 2000
I'd like to re-order those printer cartridges, let's say 5-off.
21. v. (transitive, slang) To kill.
He got in the way so I had him offed.
22. v. (transitive, Singapore, Philippines) To switch off.
Can you off the light?
23. n. (rare) Beginning; starting point.
He has been very obviously an untrustworthy narrator right from the off.
preventive
1. adj. Preventing, hindering, or acting as an obstacle to.
2. adj. Carried out to deter military aggression.
3. adj. Slowing the development of an illness; prophylactic.
4. adj. (obsolete) Going before; preceding.
5. n. (dated) A thing that prevents, hinders, or acts as an obstacle to.
6. n. (nonstandard) A thing that slows the development of an illness.
7. n. A contraceptive, especially a condom.

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