Service vs Industrial - What's the difference?
service | industrial |
An act of being of assistance to someone.
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, title= (economics) The practice of providing such a service as economic activity.
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, title= (computing) A function that is provided by one program or machine for another.
The state of being subordinate to or employed by an individual or group
The military.
A set of dishes or utensils.
(sports) The act of initially starting, or serving, the ball in play in tennis, volleyball, and other games.
A religious rite or ritual.
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, title= (legal) The serving, or delivery, of a summons or writ.
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(Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Israel, West Bank) A taxi shared among unrelated passengers, each of whom pays part of the fare; often, it has a fixed route between cities.
A musical composition for use in churches.
(obsolete) Profession of respect; acknowledgment of duty owed.
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(nautical) The materials used for serving a rope, etc., such as spun yarn and small lines.
To serve.
To perform maintenance.
(transitive, agriculture, euphemistic) To inseminate through sexual intercourse
(vulgar) To perform a sexual act.
Of or relating to industry, notably manufacturing.
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, title= Produced by such industry.
Used by such industry.
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, title=Internal Combustion, chapter=2 Suitable for use in such industry; industrial-grade.
Massive in scale or quantity.
Employed as manpower by such industry.
(of a society or country) Having many industries; industrialized.
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, title= (music) Belonging or pertaining to the genre of industrial music.
An employee in industry
(business) An enterprise producing tangible goods or providing certain services to industrial companies.
(finance) A bond or stock issued by such company
industrial music
As nouns the difference between service and industrial
is that service is service (eg in a restaurant) or service can be service, set while industrial is an employee in industry.As an adjective industrial is
of or relating to industry, notably manufacturing.service
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m) (French: (m)), from the verb (m) < (etyl) (m), from .Noun
(en noun)- I say I did him a service by ending our relationship - now he can freely pursue his career.
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=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.}}
The tao of tech, passage=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",
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=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.}}
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- He Su?pends on the?e Rea?ons, that Thomas Rue'' had granted a general Di?charge to ''Adam Mu?het'', who was his Conjunct, and ''correus debendi'', after the alleadged Service , which Di?charged ''Mu?het'', and con?equently ''Houstoun his Partner.
- Pray, do my service to his majesty.
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,” while this is not used in American English.Antonyms
* (action or work that is produced and consumed) good * capitalDerived terms
* accept service * advisory service * all-up service * answering service * bond service * church service * civil service * client service * community service * curb service * customer service * debt service * denial of service * denture service * dinner service * diplomatic service * disservice * divine service * ecological service * emergency service * escort service * extension service * eyeservice * fanservice * fee-for-service * food service * foreign service * full-service * health service * ill service * in service * lip service * memorial service * military service * multiservice * national service * online service * out of service * personal service * postal service * power service * prayer service * public service * quality of service * room service * secret service * Secret Service * selective service * self-service * service area * 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 * service mark * service module * service of process * service pipe * service plaza * service provider * service road * service station * service stripe * serviceman * servicewoman * shared service * silent service * silver service * social service * substituted service * table service * tea service * unservice * unserviced * web service * wire service * yeoman's serviceVerb
(servic)- They service the customer base.
- He is going to service the car.
- He was going to service her.
Descendants
* Japanese: * Korean:Statistics
*Etymology 2
industrial
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Unspontaneous combustion, passage=Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia. The cheapest way to clear logged woodland is to burn it, producing an acrid cloud of foul white smoke that, carried by the wind, can cover hundreds, or even thousands, of square miles.}}
citation, passage=More than a mere source of Promethean sustenance to thwart the cold and cook one's meat, wood was quite simply mankind's first industrial and manufacturing fuel.}}
Old soldiers?, passage=Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine. The machine gun is so much more lethal than the bow and arrow that comparisons are meaningless.}}
Antonyms
* nonindustrial * unindustrialDerived terms
* industrialism * industrialize * industrially * industrialness * industrial arts * industrial espionage * industrial production * industrial scale * industrial school * industrial strength * industrial tribunal * industrial unionNoun
(en noun)- I wish they'd play more industrial in this club.
