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单词 service
释义

service

See also: Service and sèrvice

English

Alternative forms

  • seruice (obsolete)

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈsɜːvɪs/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈsɝvɪs/
  • Audio (US, California)(file)

Etymology 1

From Middle English servise, from Old French servise (French service), from the verb servir, from Latin servitium (compare Portuguese serviço, Italian servizio, Norman sèrvice, Spanish servicio), from servus (“servant; serf; slave”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ser-wo-s (“guardian”), possibly from *ser- (“watch over, protect”). Displaced native Old English þeġnung.

Noun

service (countable and uncountable, plural services)

  1. An act of being of assistance to someone.
    I say I did him a service by ending our relationship – now he can freely pursue his career.
    • 1794, Robert Southey, Wat Tyler. A Dramatic Poem. In Three Acts, London: […] [J. M‘Creery] for Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, […], published 1817, OCLC 362102, Act I, page 7:
      The Parliament for ever cries more money, / The service of the state demands more money. / Just heaven! of what service is the state?
    • 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 4, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:
      Then he commenced to talk, really talk. and inside of two flaps of a herring's fin he had me mesmerized, like Eben Holt's boy at the town hall show. He talked about the ills of humanity, and the glories of health and Nature and service and land knows what all.
  2. (economics) The practice of providing such a service as economic activity.
    Hair care is a service industry.
    • 2013 June 21, Oliver Burkeman, “The tao of tech”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, page 27:
      The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about […], or offering services that let you "stay up to date with what your friends are doing",[...]and so on. But the real way to build a successful online business is to be better than your rivals at undermining people's control of their own attention.
  3. A department in a company, an organization, a government department, etc.
  4. (computing) A function that is provided by one program or machine for another.
    This machine provides the name service for the LAN.
  5. The state of being subordinate to or employed by an individual or group
    Lancelot was at the service of King Arthur.
  6. The military.
    I did three years in the service before coming here.
  7. A set of dishes or utensils.
    She brought out the silver tea service.
    • 1997, Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent, Monthly Review Press, page 36:
      When their lavish fiestas ended they threw the silver service and even golden vessels from their balconies to be picked up by lucky passersby.
  8. (sports) The act of initially starting, or serving, the ball in play in tennis, volleyball, and other games.
    The player had four service faults in the set.
  9. A religious rite or ritual.
    • 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter V, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, OCLC 4293071:
      Here, in the transept and choir, where the service was being held, one was conscious every moment of an increasing brightness; colours glowing vividly beneath the circular chandeliers, and the rows of small lights on the choristers' desks flashed and sparkled in front of the boys' faces, deep linen collars, and red neckbands.
    The funeral service was touching.
  10. (law) The serving, or delivery, of a summons or writ.
    • 1668 July 3, James Dalrymple, “Thomas Rue contra Andrew Houſtoun” in The Deciſions of the Lords of Council & Seſſion I (Edinburgh, 1683), page 548:
      He Suſpends on theſe Reaſons, that Thomas Rue had granted a general Diſcharge to Adam Muſhet, who was his Conjunct, and correus debendi, after the alleadged Service, which Diſcharged Muſhet, and conſequently Houstoun his Partner.
    The service happened yesterday.
  11. (Israel, West Bank, also in Jordan, Lebanon and Syria) A taxi shared among unrelated passengers, each of whom pays part of the fare; often, it has a fixed route between cities.
  12. A musical composition for use in churches.
  13. (obsolete) Profession of respect; acknowledgment of duty owed.
    • 1613, William Shakespeare; [John Fletcher], “The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene i]:
      Pray, do my service to his majesty.
  14. (nautical) The materials used for serving a rope, etc., such as spun yarn and small lines.
  15. Access to resources such as hotel rooms and web-based videos without transfer of the resources' ownership.
Usage notes

In British English, the indefinite article "a" is often used with “good service”, as in "A good service is operating on all London Underground lines", whereas this is not used in American English.

Antonyms
  • (action or work that is produced and consumed): good
  • capital
Hyponyms
  • accept service
  • advisory service
  • all-up service
  • answering service
  • bond service
  • bus replacement service
  • church service
  • civil service
  • client service
  • community service
  • curb service
  • customer service
  • debt service
  • denture service
  • dinner service
  • diplomatic service
  • disservice
  • divine service
  • ecological service
  • emergency service
  • escort service
  • extension service
  • eyeservice
  • fanservice
  • food service
  • foreign service
  • health service
  • ill service
  • memorial service
  • micro service
  • military service
  • national service
  • online service
  • personal service
  • postal service
  • power service
  • prayer service
  • public service
  • rail replacement service
  • room service
  • secret service
  • Secret Service
  • selective service
  • shared service
  • silent service
  • silver service
  • social service
  • substituted service
  • table service
  • tea service
  • Web service
  • wire service
  • yeoman's service
Derived terms
  • denial of service
  • fee-for-service
  • full-service
  • in service
  • in-service
  • lip service
  • multiservice
  • out of service
  • quality of service
  • self-service
  • service area
  • service as a software substitute
  • service book
  • service break
  • service bureau
  • service call
  • service cap
  • service ceiling
  • service center
  • service charge
  • service club
  • service contract
  • service court
  • service dog
  • service door
  • service elevator
  • service line
  • service loop
  • serviceman
  • service mark
  • service module
  • service of an heir
  • service of process
  • service pipe
  • service pistol
  • service plaza
  • service provider
  • service revolver
  • service road
  • service station
  • service stripe
  • servicewoman
  • software as a service
  • unservice
  • unserviced
  • service à la française
  • service à la russe
Translations

Verb

service (third-person singular simple present services, present participle servicing, simple past and past participle serviced)

  1. (transitive) To serve.
    They service the customer base.
    • 2019 February 27, Drachinifel, The Battle of Samar - Odds? What are those?‎, archived from the original on 3 November 2022, retrieved 5 November 2022, 28:07 from the start:
      The USS Manila Bay, in the next group south of Taffy 3, services aircraft from eleven different squadrons that aren't attached to her own flight group, and, at one point, has representatives from no less than four other carriers' airgroups on her flight deck at the same time.
    1. (transitive) To perform maintenance.
      He is going to service the car.
    2. (public relations, transitive) To supply (media outlets) with press releases etc.
      • 1977, Patricia Marshall, Citizen Participation Certification for Community Development (page 107)
        One obvious way is press releases, which should be sent to your region's reporters, editors and columnists, the wire services, professional publications. […] Servicing the media should be an everyday thing.
      • 1971, College and University Journal (volumes 10-11, page 9)
        […] instead of expending so much of their PR effort on servicing the media.
  2. (transitive, agriculture, euphemistic) To inseminate through sexual intercourse.
  3. (transitive, vulgar) To perform a sexual act upon.
    He serviced her several times a week.
  4. (transitive, military, euphemistic) To attack.
    to service a target; target servicing
Synonyms
  • (to serve): attend, wait on; See also Thesaurus:serve
  • (to perform a sexual act): be with, go to bed with, sleep with; see also Thesaurus:copulate with
Descendants
  • → Dutch: service
    • → Indonesian: servis
  • → German: Service
  • → Hindi: सर्विस (sarvis)
  • → Hungarian: szerviz
  • → Japanese: サービス (sābisu)
  • → Korean: 서비스 (seobiseu)
  • → Russian: сервис (servis)
  • → Ukrainian: сервіс (servis)
Translations

Etymology 2

Properly, the tree that bears sorb fruit, from Middle English serves, plural of serve (“sorb apple, serviceberry”), from Old English syrfe, from Vulgar Latin *sorbea, from Latin sorbus (“service tree”). See sorb.

Noun

service (plural services)

  1. Service tree.
  2. The sorb; the fruit of this tree.
Translations
service tree — see service tree

Anagrams

  • cerevis, scrieve

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English service.

Pronunciation

  • Audio(file)
  • Hyphenation: ser‧vice

Noun

service f or m (plural services)

  1. service
  2. after-sales

French

Etymology

From Old French servise, borrowed from Latin servitium (compare Portuguese serviço, Italian servizio, Norman sèrvice, Spanish servicio), from servus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sɛʁ.vis/
  • audio(file)

Noun

service m (plural services)

  1. service
    Cet employé a obtenu sa retraite après trente années de service. ― This employee retired after thirty years of service.
    être d'un bon service ― to be of good service
  2. (tennis) service
  3. (Switzerland, in the plural) cutlery
  4. set (collection of objects)

Derived terms

  • à votre service
  • bon pour le service
  • entrée de service
  • hors service
  • mise en service
  • rendre service
  • reprendre du service
  • service à café
  • service à la française
  • service à la russe
  • service à thé
  • service civil
  • service clientèle
  • service de renseignement
  • service d'ordre
  • service militaire
  • service rapide par bus
  • service secret
  • taxe sur les produits et services
  • servir
  • servant
  • serf

Descendants

  • → Romanian: serviciu
  • → Turkish: servis

Interjection

service

  1. (Switzerland) you're welcome

Further reading

  • “service”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
  • “service” in Dictionnaire Français en ligne Larousse.

Anagrams

  • écrives

Middle English

Noun

service

  1. Alternative form of servise

Norman

Alternative forms

  • sèrvice (Jersey)

Etymology

From Old French servise, (compare French service), borrowed from Latin servitium, from servus.

Noun

service m (plural services)

  1. (Guernsey) service

Old French

Noun

service m (oblique plural services, nominative singular services, nominative plural service)

  1. Alternative form of servise

Romanian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English service.

Noun

service n (plural service-uri)

  1. service

Declension

Declension of service
singularplural
indefinite articulationdefinite articulationindefinite articulationdefinite articulation
nominative/accusative(un) serviceserviceul(niște) service-uriservice-urile
genitive/dative(unui) serviceserviceului(unor) service-uriservice-urilor
vocativeserviceuleservice-urilor

Swedish

Pronunciation

  • Audio(file)

Noun

service c

  1. service, the level of comfort offered by assistants and servants (the opposite of self-service)
  2. maintenance and repair
    min bil är inne på service
    my car is at the workshop

Declension

Declension of service 
Uncountable
IndefiniteDefinite
Nominativeserviceservicen——
Genitiveserviceservicens——
  • fullservice
  • kundservice
  • serva
  • serviceverkstad

See also

  • servis
  • tjänst
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