Word Finder - served

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(personal) To provide a service (or, by extension, a product, especially food or drink).

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To treat (someone) in a given manner.

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To be suitor to; to be the lover of.

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To be effective.

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To deliver a document.

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To lead off with the first delivery over the net in tennis, volleyball, ping pong, badminton etc.

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To copulate with (of male animals); to cover.

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To be in military service.

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To work, to operate (a weapon).

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To work through (a given period of time in prison, a sentence).

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To wind spun yarn etc. tightly around (a rope or cable, etc.) so as to protect it from chafing or from the weather.

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To perform (a public obligation).

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I've received a summons for jury duty. It says I serve one day or one trial.

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To provide crack cocaine (to), usually by selling, dealing, or distributing.

He served me well for the time he was here.

It served her well in her position as a spy.

What was it about him that served as a magnet for her eyes?

I've served you longer than any of the others.

Dean "attended" college, served in the military, and was employed by the Parkside, Pennsylvania Police Department for fifteen years.

It is served by the Southern railway.

Born to betray any master he served.

Her presence had already served to calm him.

In all the years he.d served her, she.d never owned him until three weeks ago.

Cynthia served a pot roast, simple but delicious, reminding Dean of Sundays in years gone by.

Still, as welcome as his compassion was, it only served to increase her tears.

But Josh was only interested in what served Josh best.

She stopped and looked around, searching for the one that her family served.

In 1848 Montanelli served with the Tuscan student volunteers at the battle of Curtatone, where he was wounded and taken prisoner by the Austrians.

A special feature of his rule was the sending out of numerous cleruchies (q.v.), which served the double purpose of securing strategic points to Athens and converting the needy proletariate of the capital into owners of real property.

Each then took a part, a family connexion was established, and the broken die served as a symbol of recognition; thus the members of each family found in the other hosts and protectors in case of need.

Onehunga is a small port on Manukau harbour, served by rail.

After a period of vacillation he deserted Louis and joined the Holy League, which had been formed to expel the French from Italy; but unable to raise troops, he served with the English forces as a volunteer and shared in the victory gained over the French at the battle of the Spurs near Therouanne on the 16th of August 1513.

He was present at the battle of Weisser Berg (near Prague), where the hopes of the elector palatine were blasted (November 8, 1620), passed the winter with the army in southern Bohemia, and next year served in Hungary under Karl Bonaventura de Longueval, Graf von Buquoy or Boucquoi (1571-1621).

In the political interests which these contests involved he took no part; his favourite disciple, the princess Elizabeth, was the daughter of the banished king, against whom he had served in Bohemia; and Queen Christina, his second royal follower, was the daughter of Gustavus Adolphus.

But his undue haste to arrange matters with the church only served to compromise him more deeply.

In 1557, however, a great flood caused the Tiber to change its course, so that it no longer flowed under the walls of the castle, but some half a mile farther west; and its old bed (Fiume Morto) has ever since then served as a breeding ground for the malarial mosquito (Anopheles claviger).

Farther to the south-west are remains of other warehouses, and (possibly) of the docks - long narrow chambers, which may hve served to contain ships.

The department is served chiefly by the lines of the Northern railway; in addition, the main line of the Eastern railway to Strassburg traverses the extreme south.

It is served by the Southern, the Louisville & Nashville, the Seaboard Air Line, the Central of Georgia, the Alabama Great Southern (of the Queen & Crescent Route), the Illinois Central, the Atlanta, Birmingham & Atlantic, the Birmingham Southern (for freight only), and the Kansas City, Memphis & Birmingham (Frisco system) railways.

He entered the engineer branch in 1838, served in the campaigns in the Caucasus, rose to be colonel, and commanded the sappers and miners at the siege of Kars in 1855.

Having served in the army in Spain and Sardinia, he became curule aedile, praetor and (after an unsuccessful attempt in 117) consul in 115.

He had two brothers who served and died in India, and he never ceased to take a deep and practical interest in Indian affairs.

Denver is an important railway centre, being served by nine railways, of which the chief are the Atchison, ' Topeka & Santa Fe; the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy; the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific; the Denver & Rio Grande; the Union Pacific; and the Denver, North-Western & Pacific, Denver lies on the South Platte river, at an altitude exactly m.

Thomas, and a monolithic shaft to the memory of General John Ellis Wool (1784-1869), who served with distinction in the War of 1812 and in the Mexican War, and in the Civil War commanded for a time the Department of Virginia.

His name is supposed to be Slavonic. As a youth he served in the bodyguard ofJustinian, who appointed him commander of the Eastern army.

It is served by the Morris & Essex division of the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western railway and by the Orange branch of the Erie (the former having three stations in the city - Grove Street, East Orange and Brick Church), and is connected with Newark, Orange and West Orange by electric line.

Hayes by a majority of less than 3000 votes; but the Democrats gained a majority in both branches of the state legislature, and Thurman was elected to the United States Senate, where he served from 1869 until 1881 - during the 46th Congress (1879-1881) as president pro tempore.

The collection of a part of the import duties in gold has served to give the government the gold it requires for certain expenditures, but it has complicated returns and accounts and increased the burden of taxation.

These measures have served to give greater stability to the value of the circulating medium, and to prevent the ruinous losses caused by a constant fluctuation in value, but the rate established prevents the further appreciation of the currency.

Each synagogue is served by a rabbi assisted by an officiating minister, and in each consistory is a grand rabbi.

The state railways served a large portion of western France, their chief lines being from Nantes via La Rochelle to Bordeaux, and from Bordeauxvia Saintes, Niort and Saumur to Chartres.

The reserves of the active army are composed of those who have served the legal period in the active army.

Both cities are served by the Southern and the Norfolk & Western railways.

In battle the carroccio was surrounded by the bravest warriors in the army and it served both as a rallying-point and as the palladium of the city's honour; its capture by the enemy was regarded as an irretrievable defeat and humiliation.

Driven from it in 1795, he was restored by Lucien Bonaparte, during whose time of office he served as secretary to the prefecture of the Upper Marne.

Morelia is served by a branch of the Mexican National railway; its station is outside the city, with which it is connected by a small tramway line.

Ten shafts lined with slabs of tufa which were there found may have been the approaches to tombs or may have served as wells.

Unless the Sabbath was already an institution peculiarly Jewish, it could not have served as a mark of distinction from heathenism.

He served on various royal commissions, and from 1877 was the chairman of the managing body of the meteorological office.

It is served by the Maine Central railway, by several electric lines, and by steamboat lines to Portland, Boston and several other ports.

The potter's clay of Ischia served for the potteries of Cumae and Puteoli in ancient times, and was indeed in considerable demand until the catastrophe at Casamicciola in 1883.

It is served by the Tuskegee railway, which connects it with Chehaw, 5 m.

The Batavians served with fidelity and distinction in all parts of the empire, and from the days of Augustus onwards formed a considerable part of the Praetorian guard.

On the collapse of the rebellion he fled to Turkey, adopted Mahommedanism, and under the name of Murad Pasha served as governor of Aleppo, at which place, at the risk of his life, he saved the Christian population from being massacred by the Moslems. Here he died on the 6th of September 1850.