serve (verb)
31serve out — PHRASAL VERB If someone serves out their term of office, contract, or prison sentence, they do not leave before the end of the agreed period of time. [V P n (not pron)] The governor has declared his innocence and says he plans to fight and serve… …
32con|serve — «verb. kuhn SURV; noun. KON surv, kuhn SURV», verb, served, serv|ing, noun. –v.t. 1. a) to keep from harm or decay; keep from loss or from being used up; preserve: »Try to conserve your strength for the end of the race. SYNONYM(S): guard, s …
33re-serve — verb serve again …
34drop one's serve — verb lose a game in which one is serving • Topics: ↑tennis, ↑lawn tennis • Hypernyms: ↑lose • Verb Frames: Somebody s * * * (in tennis) lose a game in which one is serving …
35hold one's serve — verb to win a game when one is serving …
36Germanic strong verb — In the Germanic languages, a strong verb is one which marks its past tense by means of ablaut. In English, these are verbs like sing, sang, sung. The term strong verb is a translation of German starkes Verb , which was coined by the linguist… …
37Non-finite verb — In linguistics, a non finite verb (or a verbal) is a verb form that is not limited by a subject and, more generally, is not fully inflected by categories that are marked inflectionally in language, such as tense, aspect, mood, number, gender, and …
38de|serve — «dih ZURV», verb, served, serv|ing. –v.t. to have a right to; have a claim to; be worthy of; merit: »A hard worker deserves good pay. One good turn deserves another. –v.i. to be worthy. ╂[< Old French deservir < Latin dēservīre serve well… …
39sub|serve — «suhb SURV», transitive verb, served, serv|ing. to help or assist (as a purpose, action, or function): »Chewing food well subserves digestion. Liberty is to be subserved whatever occurs (Walt Whitman). When words no longer subserve thought but… …
40non-finite verb — noun A verb form that lacks a subject, is not inflected by tense, aspect, mood, number, gender or person and cannot serve as a predicate. Syn …
