Service vs Staff - What's the difference?
service | staff |
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.
* 1668 July 3, , “Thomas Rue contra'' Andrew Hou?toun” in ''The Deci?ions of the Lords of Council & Se??ion I (Edinburgh, 1683),
(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.
* Shakespeare
(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.
(label) A long, straight stick, especially one used to assist in walking.
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, chapter=4, title= A series of horizontal lines on which musical notes are written.
(label) The employees of a business.
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, title= (label) A mixture of plaster and fibre used as a temporary exterior wall covering.
A pole, stick, or wand borne as an ensign of authority; a badge of office.
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
*Sir (c.1564-1627)
A pole upon which a flag is supported and displayed.
(label) The rung of a ladder.
* Dr. J. Campbell (E. Brown's Travels)
A series of verses so disposed that, when it is concluded, the same order begins again; a stanza; a stave.
* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)
(label) An arbor, as of a wheel or a pinion of a watch.
(label) The grooved director for the gorget, or knife, used in cutting for stone in the bladder.
(label) An establishment of officers in various departments attached to an army, to a section of an army, or to the commander of an army. The general's staff consists of those officers about his person who are employed in carrying his commands into execution.
As a noun service
is service (eg in a restaurant) or service can be service, set.As a proper noun staff is
.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
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(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
staff
English
(wikipedia staff)Noun
F. E. Penny
Pulling the Strings, passage=The case was that of a murder. It had an element of mystery about it, however, which was puzzling the authorities. A turban and loincloth soaked in blood had been found; also a staff .}}
Hospital staff 'lack skills to cope with dementia patients', passage=Most staff do not have the skills to cope with such challenging patients, who too often receive "impersonal" care and suffer from boredom, the first National Audit of Dementia found. It says hospitals should introduce "dementia champions".}}
- Methought this staff , mine office badge in court, / Was broke in twain.
- All his officers brake their staves'; but at their return new ' staves were delivered unto them.
- I ascend at one [ladder] of six hundred and thirty-nine staves .
- Cowley found out that no kind of staff is proper for an heroic poem, as being all too lyrical.