Serve vs Commit - What's the difference?
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(sports) An act of putting the ball or shuttlecock in play in various games.
* 1961 January 13, Marshall Smith, From Waif to a Winner, the Clown of the Courts'', '' ,
* 1996 , Steve Boga, Badminton ,
* 2009 , Mihnea Moldoveanu, Roger L. Martin, Diaminds: Decoding the Mental Habits of Successful Thinkers ,
(chiefly, Australia) A portion of food or drink, a serving.
* 2004 , Susanna Holt, Fitness Food: The Essential Guide to Eating Well and Performing Better , Murdoch Books Australia,
* 2007 , Verity Campbell, Turkey , Lonely Planet,
* 2008 , Michael E. Cichorski, Maximum Asthma Control: The Revolutionary 3-Step Anti Asthma Program ,
* 2011 , Great Britain Parliament House of Commons Health Committee, Alcohol: First Report of Session 2009-10 , Volume 2,
* 2012 , Lesley Campbell, Alan L. Rubin, Type 2 Diabetes For Dummies , Australian Edition,
To provide a service.
#(lb) To be a formal servant for (a god or deity); to worship in an official capacity.
#*1889 , (Philip Schaff), translating , XIV:
#*:And yet this is not the office of a Priest, but of Him whom the Priest should serve .
#(lb) To be a servant for; to work for, to be employed by.
#*1716 , (Joseph Addison),
#*:And, truly, Mrs Abigail, I must needs say, I served' my master contentedly while he was living, but I will ' serve no man living (that is, no man that is not living) without double wages.
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#*1979 , (Bob Dylan), (Gotta Serve Somebody) :
#*:You may be a businessman or some high-degree thief, / They may call you Doctor or they may call you Chief / But you're gonna have to serve somebody.
#(lb) To wait upon (someone) at table; to set food and drink in front of, to help (someone) to food, meals etc.
#*2007 , Larry McMurty, When the Light Goes
#*:That night Annie served him grilled halibut and English peas, plus tomatoes, of course, and a salad.
#(lb) To be a servant or worker; to perform the duties of a servant or employee; to render service.
#*1673 , (John Milton), (On His Blindness) :
#*:They also serve who only stand and wait.
#(lb) To set down (food or drink) on the table to be eaten; to bring (food, drink) to a person.
#*2009 , Dominic A Pacyga, Chicago: A Biography , p.195:
#*:About twenty minutes after waiters served the soup, a guest got up and left.
*1924 ,
*:I mock them all who have served me ill of late and chiefly this cheat of Judah, whose temple we have plundered and whose golden vessels are my wash-pots.
*, III.7:
*:That gentle Lady, whom I loue and serue .
(lb) To be effective.
#(lb) To be useful to; to meet the needs of.
#*2010 October 12, Lloyd Marcus, (The Guardian)
#*:So, while the sycophantic liberal media calls any and all opposition to Obama racist, they give Obama carte blanche to exploit his race whenever it serves his purpose.
#(lb) To have a given use or purpose; to function (for) something or to do something.
#*2011 January 27, "Borgata bust", (The Economist)
#*:The bust also served to remind the public that the Mafia is not harmless.
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#*:Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out.. Ikey the blacksmith had forged us a spearhead after a sketch from a picture of a Greek warrior; and a rake-handle served as a shaft.
#*2010 April 20, "Not up in the air", (The Economist)
#*:Maybe the volcanic eruption will serve as a wake-up call to such companies that they need to modernise their risk management.
To deliver a document.
#To officially deliver (a legal notice, summons etc.).
#*2008 April, Pamela Colloff, The Fire That Time , Texas Monthly; Austin: Emmis Publishing, p.158:
#*:On the morning of February 28, 1993, ATF agents gathered at a staging area near Waco and prepared to serve a search warrant on the Branch Davidians' residence.
#To make legal service upon (a person named in a writ, summons, etc.)
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*2007 , Rob Antoun, Women's Tennis Tactics , p.2:
*:In women's tennis the need to serve more effectively has become greater in recent years because the game is being played more aggressively, and rallies are becoming shorter as a result.
(lb) To copulate with (of male animals); to .
*1996 , Puck Bonnier et al., Dairy Cattle Husbandry , Agromisa Foundation 2004
*:Conception means that a cow is served by a bull and that she becomes pregnant.
(lb) To be in military service.
*2007 May 16, Peter Walker, (The Guardian)
*:Some reports suggested he would quit the army if he was not allowed to serve abroad in a war zone.
*1864 , (Horace Greeley),
*:John T. Greble, of the 2d regular artillery, was likewise killed instantly by a ball through the head, while serving his gun in the face of the foe.
(lb) To work through (a given period of time in prison, a sentence).
*2010 December 1, Tania Branigan, (The Guardian)
*:The Guangzhou Daily reported that Shi Chunlong, 20, who organised the incident, was sentenced to 15 years in prison. Hou Bin, who pulled out of the attack after helping to plan it, will serve 12 years.
(lb) To wind spun yarn etc. tightly around (a rope or cable, etc.) so as to protect it from chafing or from the weather.
To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to entrust; to consign; -- used with to, unto.
* Bible, Psalms xxxvii. 5
* Shakespeare
To put in charge of a jailor; to imprison.
* Clarendon
To do; to perpetrate, as a crime, sin, or fault.
* Bible, Exodus xx. 4
To join a contest; to match; followed by with .
To pledge or bind; to compromise, expose, or endanger by some decisive act or preliminary step; for example to commit oneself to a certain action'', ''to commit oneself to doing something''. (Traditionally used only reflexively but now also without ''oneself etc.)http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/american_speech/v074/74.3shapiro.html
* Junius
* Marshall
(obsolete, Latinism) To confound.
* Milton
(obsolete) To commit an offence; especially, to fornicate.
*, II.12:
* Shakespeare
(computing) The act of committing (e.g. a database transaction or source code into a source control repository), making it a permanent change.
* 1988 , Klaus R Dittrich, Advances in Object-Oriented Database Systems: 2nd International Workshop
* 2009 , Jon Loeliger, Version Control with Git
As verbs the difference between serve and commit
is that serve is to provide a service while commit is .As a noun serve
is (sports) an act of putting the ball or shuttlecock in play in various games.serve
English
(wikipedia serve)Noun
(en noun)- Whose serve is it?
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- He had no power serve of his own, no backhand, no volley, no lob, no idea of pace or tactics.
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- The first serve of the game is from the right half court to the half diagonally opposite.
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- Against a serve of the calibre of McEnroe?s, an opponent will try to anticipate the ball?s direction and lean either to the left or to the right, depending on where he feels the server will go.
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- The night before your event, base your evening meal on high-carbohydrate foods with a small serve of lean protein.
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- Come here for a cappuccino that could hold its own on Via Veneto in Rome (€2) and a serve of their crunchy fresh cheese börek .
page 100,
- Reintroduce protein; add a small serve of salmon, tuna or sardines every second day (tinned variety or fresh).
page 189,
- Smirnoff Appleback was a finished drink, comprising a 50ml serve of Smirnoff, with ice and lemonade or ginger ale and equating to 1.9 units.
page 117,
- One serve of carbohydrates is approximately equal to a slice of bread, a piece of fruit, third of a cup of cooked rice, half a cup of grains, cereals, starchy vegetables or cooked pasta, 200 grams of plain yoghurt, or 300 millilitres of milk.
Synonyms
* (act of putting the ball or shuttlecock in play) service * (portion of food) See servingAntonyms
* receiveVerb
(serv)Well-connected Brains, passage=Creating a complete map of the human connectome would therefore be a monumental milestone but not the end of the journey to understanding how our brains work. The achievement will transform neuroscience and serve as the starting point for asking questions we could not otherwise have answered,
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Synonyms
* (to be a servant to) attend, bestand, wait onDerived terms
* serve somebody right * server * servery * service * serviced * servileReferences
Anagrams
* * * 1000 English basic words ----commit
English
(Webster 1913)Verb
(committ)- Commit thy way unto the Lord.
- Bid him farewell, commit him to the grave.
- These two were committed .
- Thou shalt not commit adultery.
- You might have satisfied every duty of political friendship, without committing the honour of your sovereign.
- Any sudden assent to the proposalmight possibly be considered as committing the faith of the United States.
- committing short and long [quantities]
- the sonne might one day bee found committing with his mother.
- Commit not with man's sworn spouse.
Usage notes
To , entrust, consign. These words have in common the idea of transferring from one's self to the care and custody of another. Commit'' is the widest term, and may express only the general idea of delivering into the charge of another; as, to commit a lawsuit to the care of an attorney; or it may have the special sense of entrusting with or without limitations, as to a superior power, or to a careful servant, or of consigning, as to writing or paper, to the flames, or to prison. To ''entrust'' denotes the act of committing to the exercise of confidence or trust; as, to entrust a friend with the care of a child, or with a secret. To ''consign is a more formal act, and regards the thing transferred as placed chiefly or wholly out of one's immediate control; as, to consign a pupil to the charge of his instructor; to consign goods to an agent for sale; to consign a work to the press.Derived terms
* commit suicide * commit oneselfExternal links
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Noun
(en noun)- To support locking and process synchronization independently of transaction commits , the server provides semaphore objects...
- Every Git commit represents a single, atomic changeset with respect to the previous state.