英语词汇“to serve out”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

1. transitive. To complete the duration of (a term of service, an apprenticeship, a judicial sentence, etc.); to spend (a period) in a particular office, role or position, etc.; to pass (a period, one's life) in service or servitude. Esp. in to serve out one's time (cf. to serve (one's) time at Phrases 8).

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1467 in J. T. Smith & L. T. Smith Eng. Gilds (1870) 390 That no prentice haue his fredom of Burgesshippe, but he serue out fulle vij. yere of prentishode.

?1535–6 T. Dorset Let. 13 Mar. in T. Wright Three Chapters Lett. Suppression Monasteries (1843) 38 He said they shulde serve it out at cart then.

1553 R. Ascham Let. 24 Mar. in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eminent Lit. Men (1843) 16 Som reason I have, to be made free and jorneyman in lernyng, whan I have allready served out three prentyships at Cambrige.

1652 Perfect Diurnall No. 130. 1927 Apprentises..should serve out their Time in any of the three Nations, according to the conveniency of his Masters businesse.

1685 J. Dryden Albion & Albanius Pref. sig. (b)2 As if I had not serv'd out my time in Poetry, but was bound 'Prentice to some doggrel Rhymer.

1700 S. L. tr. C. Frick Relation Voy. in tr. C. Frick & C. Schweitzer Relation Two Voy. E.-Indies 110 Those who had served out their time [sc. as soldiers].

1780 G. Mason Let. 6 Oct. in T. Jefferson Papers (1951) IV. 18 Three or four Serjeants..had served out their Time in the Virginia Line on Continental Establishment.

1823 M. L. Bevan Let. 10 Mar. in Jrnl. 33rd House of Representatives Pennsylvania 771 No person..shall be sent to the prison of the city and county of Philadelphia, but shall serve out the time of their sentence in the gaol of the proper county.

1885 Encycl. Brit. XIX. 756/2 The obligation to return to a convict prison to serve out the unexpired term of penal servitude.

1923 Music Trades 6 Jan. 37/2 When a man serves out his time the instrument he played remains the property of the league.

1974 Ebony Dec. 179/3 He was taken immediately to Annandale Reformatory to serve out his old sentence.

2020 Austral. Financial Rev. (Nexis) 20 June 18 People are already talking about whether he will serve out the full term.

2. transitive. Originally: to send or carry (prepared food, a dish, etc.) to the table. Now chiefly: to distribute (food or drink) in portions for immediate consumption.Recorded earliest in figurative context.

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1555 W. Turner New Bk. Spirituall Physik f. 36^v Thys cooke shoulde serue out a dyshe of obedience vnto the kynge.

1635 E. Grimeston tr. M. Baudier Hist. Imperiall Estate Grand Seigneurs vi. 37 They serue out thirtie Dishes, in the which are thirtie forts of meates.

1793 J. MacDonell Diary 15 Aug. in C. M. Gates Five Fur Traders (1933) 101 Our Bourgeois came up with us and ordered each man a dram, which I served out to them.

1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe III. x. 240 To preside over the stock-fish and ale, which was just serving out for the friars' breakfast.

1868 F. W. Hoyle Fragments Jrnl. Shipwreck viii. 78 A mess, composed of fowls, mutton, potatoes, and onions, made into a sort of stew, formed the repast, which was served out in the plated circular entrée dishes.

1905 Baroness Orczy Scarlet Pimpernel iv. 33 Already Lord Antony had served out the soup.

1921 Live Stock Jrnl. 28 Jan. p. iii/2 Of course beer was beer then, and not the chemical stuff which is served out to-day.

1986 D. Adams et al. Utterly Merry Comic Relief Christmas Bk. 72/2 Bob..began to serve out the delicious bird.

2017 Impartial Reporter (Nexis) 10 Aug. We would like to thank the Colebrooke Mothers Union for preparing and serving out the tea.

a. transitive. To distribute or supply (something); esp. (often in military and nautical contexts) to give out (grain, ammunition, etc.) in shares, portions, or allowances; to dole out.

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1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus at Metior Parcè & paulatim metiri frumentum, to serue out corne sparyngly by littell and littell.

1664 in Lawrence Mayor. Comm. Concil. (City of London, Court of Common Council) (?1675) 5 We find..other Retailers willing to Sell by the just Measures, and at much lower Rates than the Wood-mongers do, if they could be supplyed with Carrs to serve out their Coals to the Buyers.

1727 A. Hamilton New Acct. E. Indies II. li. 239 Out of which is served out to the military..320000 Peculs of Rice.

1802 J. Richardson in Naval Chron. 7 54 My grog was served out.

1827 O. W. Roberts Narr. Voy. Central Amer. 67 I served out some kegs of gunpowder.

1887 F. Francis Saddle & Mocassin xi. 207 The short measures of flour which ‘Rowdy Jack’, one of their fellow-men, served out.

1934 ‘E. Mordaunt’ Traveller's Pack 157 She was promoted to..helping in the shop, serving out matches and tobacco, shovelling out sugar.

1938 ‘G. Orwell’ Homage to Catalonia in J. E. Lewis Mammoth Bk. War Correspondents (2001) 190 Bombs were served out, three to a man.

2016 Black Country Bugle (Nexis) 6 Apr. 7 The cheese needed to be cut with wire to be served out in rationed portions, 2 oz per person per week.

†b. transitive. Originally and chiefly Nautical slang. To administer (corporal punishment); cf. 11c. Obsolete.

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society > authority > punishment > [verb (transitive)] > inflict disciplinary or corrective punishment

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to serve out1829

society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > administer corporal punishment [verb (transitive)]

to serve out1829

1829 United Service Jrnl. ii. 702 Flogging was as regularly ‘served out,’ as when the constituted authorities were in full possession.

1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Serving out slops, distributing clothing, &c. Also, a cant term to denote punishment at the gangway.

1884 S. St. John Hayti iii. 81 On many of the large estates, a certain number of lashes was served out every morning as regularly as the rations.

1906 Flash Frigate in J. Masefield Sailor's Garland 189 Our senior lieutenant.., he cuts such a swell.., And at the lee gangway he serves out the cat .

a. transitive. colloquial (originally slang). To treat in an unpleasant, rough, or violent way; to take revenge on (a person) for something. Cf. main sense 46. Now rare.

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society > authority > punishment > retributive punishment > inflict (retributive punishment) [verb (transitive)] > for an offence or on an offender > inflict retributive punishment upon

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1809 Proc. Old Bailey 17 May 304/1 The prisoner said..this would but detain him a few months; and he would be d——d if he did not serve me out when he came out of trouble, with the most bitter oaths and expressions.

1817 Sporting Mag. 50 18 The butcher was so completely served out, that he resigned all pretensions to victory.

1819 T. Moore Tom Crib's Memorial to Congress (ed. 3) 34 And whosoe'er grew unpolite, The well-bred Champion serv'd him out.

1836 P. Hawker Diary (1893) II. 113 I'll serve him out for it.

1863 C. Kingsley Water-babies v. 183 I will serve you out for telling the salmon where I was!

1891 C. E. L. Riddell Mad Tour 9 He set his mind to work to consider how he could best serve me out.

1920 E. F. Benson Queen Lucia (N.Y. ed.) 23 That served him out for his ‘trap’ about the real pear introduced among the stone specimens.

2006 V. Heley Murder by Bicycle xiii. 167 She'd made a solemn vow..to serve him out for what he'd done to her.

†b. transitive. Apparently Fox-hunting slang. To smash (a fence). Obsolete. rare.

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the world > food and drink > hunting > hunting with hounds > hunt with hounds [verb (transitive)] > on horseback

to serve out1862

1862 ‘The Druid’ Scott & Sebright 398 This was the third or fourth flight of rails which Cognac, who was very fresh after a frost,..had served out that day.

†5. intransitive. English regional (north-eastern). Mining. Of gas: to issue regularly or continuously from a fault, cut, etc. Cf. sense 38b. Obsolete.

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1882 J. A. Ramsay Treat. Ventilating & Working Collieries ii. 16 For years after the holing was made, the gas served out very strongly.

6. In racket sports (esp. tennis), volleyball, and other games played over a net or against a wall.

a. transitive. To end (a set, match, etc.) successfully by winning a point or game as the server.

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1919 N.Y. Times 4 Aug. 13/6 After a long deuce session Miss Wagner served out the set at 8–6.

1958 Observer 20 Apr. 24/5 [Roger] Becker was within sight of victory. He served the match out in the next game.

1966 Times 23 Mar. 4/5 The public schools rackets championships... Osborne showed a cool head in a crisis to serve the game out for Radley.

2008 P. Sampras & P. Bodo Champion's Mind 101 Jim broke me again in the eighth game, and then he served out the set with an ace.

b. intransitive. To win a point or (usually) game as the server, esp. as the final act in winning a set or match.

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1937 Washington Post 9 May 2/8 McDiarmid served out for the match, ending it with an aceing smash.

1959 Times 2 July 3/1 Mackay saved his next game, broke to 8–7 in an uproar, and served out heroically for the set.

1991 Daily Tel. 5 Jan. 30/7 Coombs added salt to the wound by starting with two aces as he served out with a flourish for a victory.

2011 M. Mills House of Hunted viii. 103 They both served out to force a third and deciding set.

单词	to serve out
释义	> as lemmas to serve out to serve out 1. transitive. To complete the duration of (a term of service, an apprenticeship, a judicial sentence, etc.); to spend (a period) in a particular office, role or position, etc.; to pass (a period, one's life) in service or servitude. Esp. in to serve out one's time (cf. to serve (one's) time at Phrases 8). ΚΠ 1467 in J. T. Smith & L. T. Smith Eng. Gilds (1870) 390 That no prentice haue his fredom of Burgesshippe, but he serue out fulle vij. yere of prentishode. ?1535–6 T. Dorset Let. 13 Mar. in T. Wright Three Chapters Lett. Suppression Monasteries (1843) 38 He said they shulde serve it out at cart then. 1553 R. Ascham Let. 24 Mar. in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eminent Lit. Men (1843) 16 Som reason I have, to be made free and jorneyman in lernyng, whan I have allready served out three prentyships at Cambrige. 1652 Perfect Diurnall No. 130. 1927 Apprentises..should serve out their Time in any of the three Nations, according to the conveniency of his Masters businesse. 1685 J. Dryden Albion & Albanius Pref. sig. (b)2 As if I had not serv'd out my time in Poetry, but was bound 'Prentice to some doggrel Rhymer. 1700 S. L. tr. C. Frick Relation Voy. in tr. C. Frick & C. Schweitzer Relation Two Voy. E.-Indies 110 Those who had served out their time [sc. as soldiers]. 1780 G. Mason Let. 6 Oct. in T. Jefferson Papers (1951) IV. 18 Three or four Serjeants..had served out their Time in the Virginia Line on Continental Establishment. 1823 M. L. Bevan Let. 10 Mar. in Jrnl. 33rd House of Representatives Pennsylvania 771 No person..shall be sent to the prison of the city and county of Philadelphia, but shall serve out the time of their sentence in the gaol of the proper county. 1885 Encycl. Brit. XIX. 756/2 The obligation to return to a convict prison to serve out the unexpired term of penal servitude. 1923 Music Trades 6 Jan. 37/2 When a man serves out his time the instrument he played remains the property of the league. 1974 Ebony Dec. 179/3 He was taken immediately to Annandale Reformatory to serve out his old sentence. 2020 Austral. Financial Rev. (Nexis) 20 June 18 People are already talking about whether he will serve out the full term. 2. transitive. Originally: to send or carry (prepared food, a dish, etc.) to the table. Now chiefly: to distribute (food or drink) in portions for immediate consumption.Recorded earliest in figurative context. ΚΠ 1555 W. Turner New Bk. Spirituall Physik f. 36^v Thys cooke shoulde serue out a dyshe of obedience vnto the kynge. 1635 E. Grimeston tr. M. Baudier Hist. Imperiall Estate Grand Seigneurs vi. 37 They serue out thirtie Dishes, in the which are thirtie forts of meates. 1793 J. MacDonell Diary 15 Aug. in C. M. Gates Five Fur Traders (1933) 101 Our Bourgeois came up with us and ordered each man a dram, which I served out to them. 1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe III. x. 240 To preside over the stock-fish and ale, which was just serving out for the friars' breakfast. 1868 F. W. Hoyle Fragments Jrnl. Shipwreck viii. 78 A mess, composed of fowls, mutton, potatoes, and onions, made into a sort of stew, formed the repast, which was served out in the plated circular entrée dishes. 1905 Baroness Orczy Scarlet Pimpernel iv. 33 Already Lord Antony had served out the soup. 1921 Live Stock Jrnl. 28 Jan. p. iii/2 Of course beer was beer then, and not the chemical stuff which is served out to-day. 1986 D. Adams et al. Utterly Merry Comic Relief Christmas Bk. 72/2 Bob..began to serve out the delicious bird. 2017 Impartial Reporter (Nexis) 10 Aug. We would like to thank the Colebrooke Mothers Union for preparing and serving out the tea. 3. a. transitive. To distribute or supply (something); esp. (often in military and nautical contexts) to give out (grain, ammunition, etc.) in shares, portions, or allowances; to dole out. ΚΠ 1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus at Metior Parcè & paulatim metiri frumentum, to serue out corne sparyngly by littell and littell. 1664 in Lawrence Mayor. Comm. Concil. (City of London, Court of Common Council) (?1675) 5 We find..other Retailers willing to Sell by the just Measures, and at much lower Rates than the Wood-mongers do, if they could be supplyed with Carrs to serve out their Coals to the Buyers. 1727 A. Hamilton New Acct. E. Indies II. li. 239 Out of which is served out to the military..320000 Peculs of Rice. 1802 J. Richardson in Naval Chron. 7 54 My grog was served out. 1827 O. W. Roberts Narr. Voy. Central Amer. 67 I served out some kegs of gunpowder. 1887 F. Francis Saddle & Mocassin xi. 207 The short measures of flour which ‘Rowdy Jack’, one of their fellow-men, served out. 1934 ‘E. Mordaunt’ Traveller's Pack 157 She was promoted to..helping in the shop, serving out matches and tobacco, shovelling out sugar. 1938 ‘G. Orwell’ Homage to Catalonia in J. E. Lewis Mammoth Bk. War Correspondents (2001) 190 Bombs were served out, three to a man. 2016 Black Country Bugle (Nexis) 6 Apr. 7 The cheese needed to be cut with wire to be served out in rationed portions, 2 oz per person per week. †b. transitive. Originally and chiefly Nautical slang. To administer (corporal punishment); cf. 11c. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > [verb (transitive)] > inflict disciplinary or corrective punishment thewc1175 castea1200 chaste?c1225 amendc1300 chastyc1320 chastise1362 corrigec1374 correct1377 scourgec1384 disple1492 orderc1515 nurturec1520 chasten1526 whip1530 discipline1557 school1559 swinge1560 penance1580 disciple1596 castigatea1616 to serve out1829 society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > administer corporal punishment [verb (transitive)] to serve out1829 1829 United Service Jrnl. ii. 702 Flogging was as regularly ‘served out,’ as when the constituted authorities were in full possession. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Serving out slops, distributing clothing, &c. Also, a cant term to denote punishment at the gangway. 1884 S. St. John Hayti iii. 81 On many of the large estates, a certain number of lashes was served out every morning as regularly as the rations. 1906 Flash Frigate in J. Masefield Sailor's Garland 189 Our senior lieutenant.., he cuts such a swell.., And at the lee gangway he serves out the cat . 4. a. transitive. colloquial (originally slang). To treat in an unpleasant, rough, or violent way; to take revenge on (a person) for something. Cf. main sense 46. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > retributive punishment > inflict (retributive punishment) [verb (transitive)] > for an offence or on an offender > inflict retributive punishment upon yieldc1380 putc1390 rewardc1400 pay?c1450 vengea1470 revenge?1526 avenge1633 to pay back1655 to pay off1699 to serve out1809 to pay out1849 1809 Proc. Old Bailey 17 May 304/1 The prisoner said..this would but detain him a few months; and he would be d——d if he did not serve me out when he came out of trouble, with the most bitter oaths and expressions. 1817 Sporting Mag. 50 18 The butcher was so completely served out, that he resigned all pretensions to victory. 1819 T. Moore Tom Crib's Memorial to Congress (ed. 3) 34 And whosoe'er grew unpolite, The well-bred Champion serv'd him out. 1836 P. Hawker Diary (1893) II. 113 I'll serve him out for it. 1863 C. Kingsley Water-babies v. 183 I will serve you out for telling the salmon where I was! 1891 C. E. L. Riddell Mad Tour 9 He set his mind to work to consider how he could best serve me out. 1920 E. F. Benson Queen Lucia (N.Y. ed.) 23 That served him out for his ‘trap’ about the real pear introduced among the stone specimens. 2006 V. Heley Murder by Bicycle xiii. 167 She'd made a solemn vow..to serve him out for what he'd done to her. †b. transitive. Apparently Fox-hunting slang. To smash (a fence). Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > hunting with hounds > hunt with hounds [verb (transitive)] > on horseback to serve out1862 1862 ‘The Druid’ Scott & Sebright 398 This was the third or fourth flight of rails which Cognac, who was very fresh after a frost,..had served out that day. †5. intransitive. English regional (north-eastern). Mining. Of gas: to issue regularly or continuously from a fault, cut, etc. Cf. sense 38b. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1882 J. A. Ramsay Treat. Ventilating & Working Collieries ii. 16 For years after the holing was made, the gas served out very strongly. 6. In racket sports (esp. tennis), volleyball, and other games played over a net or against a wall. a. transitive. To end (a set, match, etc.) successfully by winning a point or game as the server. ΚΠ 1919 N.Y. Times 4 Aug. 13/6 After a long deuce session Miss Wagner served out the set at 8–6. 1958 Observer 20 Apr. 24/5 [Roger] Becker was within sight of victory. He served the match out in the next game. 1966 Times 23 Mar. 4/5 The public schools rackets championships... Osborne showed a cool head in a crisis to serve the game out for Radley. 2008 P. Sampras & P. Bodo Champion's Mind 101 Jim broke me again in the eighth game, and then he served out the set with an ace. b. intransitive. To win a point or (usually) game as the server, esp. as the final act in winning a set or match. ΚΠ 1937 Washington Post 9 May 2/8 McDiarmid served out for the match, ending it with an aceing smash. 1959 Times 2 July 3/1 Mackay saved his next game, broke to 8–7 in an uproar, and served out heroically for the set. 1991 Daily Tel. 5 Jan. 30/7 Coombs added salt to the wound by starting with two aces as he served out with a flourish for a victory. 2011 M. Mills House of Hunted viii. 103 They both served out to force a third and deciding set. extracted from servev.¹ < as lemmas
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