单词 | to serve up |
释义 | > as lemmasto serve up to serve up 1. a. transitive. To present a person or group with (a meal, dish, course, etc.); to set out (food, a dish) in portions for a meal. Later also of a restaurant, cafe, canteen, etc.: to offer or provide (a meal, dish, etc.) to customers. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > serving food > [verb (transitive)] servec1275 spenda1375 serve1381 to serve forth1381 ministerc1400 messa1425 sewc1440 to serve ina1450 to serve upc1475 asservec1500 dish1587 appose1593 to usher in1613 send1662 to hand round1692 to serve away1709 hand1851 c1475 J. Lydgate Horse, Goose, & Sheep (Harl.) in F. J. Furnivall Polit., Relig., & Love Poems (1903) 23 Served vp [corresponding to sewid vp in: a1500 Lansd. A fatt goos..Is sewid vp atte kyngis table]. 1587 T. Dawson Good Huswifes Iewell (new ed.) f. 4 Cut a Lemman in peeces.., and laye them vppon the chickins when you serue them vp, and lay soppes vpon the dish. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ix. 38 Marshal'd Feast Serv'd up in Hall with Sewers, and Seneshals. View more context for this quotation 1796 W. Spavens Seaman's Narr. 65 As the waiter was serving up the wine, he made his objection, saying, that scoundrel shall not drink with me! 1878 W. S. Gilbert H.M.S. Pinafore ii. And dinner served up in a pudding basin! 1950 Denton (Texas) Record-Chronicle 2 Dec. 11/1 ‘Oh, I like working at night,’ Miss McNatt added, serving up another cup of coffee to a truck driver. 2013 C. McBeth Precious Thing 47 We both hate macaroni cheese, especially the one they serve up in the school canteen. ΚΠ 1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) II. 2126/1 As my Lordes dyner at that tyme was seruyng vp, Moone departed. 1687 J. Phillips tr. M. de Cervantes Don Quixote ii. iii. xiv. 502 The Wind Musick play'd all the while Dinner was serving up. 1772 Ann. Reg. 1771 181/1 The Earl of Westmoreland..was taken suddenly as the second course was serving up, and died in a few minutes after in his chair. 1807 Lady's Monthly Museum July 39 A third [man] drops in when dinner is serving up, and declares he comes quite ‘á propos’. 1891 G. Cupples Spliced Yarn (1899) 256 Nothing more had been said..till supper was serving up for the bell-tent, where the surveyors had their quarters. 2. transitive. To deliver or offer up (a thing); to present or communicate (something) to a person, audience, etc.In earliest use only as part of an extended metaphor of sense 1a. ΚΠ 1604 T. Dekker Newes from Graues-end Ep. Ded. sig. A3v They are Rimes that I have boyld in my leaden Inckpot, for thine owne eating: And now..taste the reason why they are serued vp to thee (in the taile of the Plague) like Caveare, or a dish of Anchoues after supper. 1654 E. Johnson Hist. New-Eng. xlv. 107 In serving up civill Government, they daily direct their choice to make use of such men as mostly indeavour to keepe the truths of Christ pure and unspotted. 1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 488. ¶2 Provided the Spectator might be served up to them every Morning as usual. 1848 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms To Serve up, to expose to ridicule; to expose. 1875 H. E. Manning Internal Mission of Holy Ghost xiii. 371 You serve them up to us like new articles of science. 1928 Sci. Amer. Dec. 550/1 Find out what kind of television Baird is planning to serve up to the British people. 1973 P. Arnold & C. Davis Hamlyn Bk. World Soccer 152/1 An unpleasant match, pocked by some seventy fouls and unhappily extended to extra time, was served up in the Aztec Stadium. 2016 Time Out (Nexis) 23 Feb. 72 The French Romantic painter serves up scenes of sword-plunging, foe-slaying, flesh-conquering fantasy. < as lemmas |
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