to serve
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2.2
- verb
- /sɜrv/
:
sacar
- The WTA said you know you could serve and use both feet.
- serve a volleyball
- serving accuracy
Boris Becker, if you know when he's serving, his tongue sticks out a little bit.
- Boris Becker, if you know when he's serving, his tongue sticks out a little bit.
- The Zen Dragoon think it hurt being hit by a tennis ball being served.
- Said whenever you are serving towards the boundary line, your tongue goes to the left.
- And it's so that the example I give is if you look at how someone throws the ball up to serve in tennis.
Examples
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I keep my windbreaker on, but play well, serve hard, and hit good backhands.
Fiction book (1992) -
So, what happens if you serve it on the 153rd day?
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And this student threw up the ball and served a beautiful serve after watching him a few times.
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And so I go back to the match and I serve a very fast serve and it's an ace.
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Either way, he was always at the school throwing strikes or serving aces.
Fiction book (1990) -
You serve, I volley.
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Open, Federer serving to Andre Agassi early in the fourth set.
Academic text (2011) -
Forrest Jr. serves the ball, causing Forrest to dive and miss it.
Fiction book (1994) -
Skills that were tested included serving in badminton, sprinting in track, the lay-up in basketball, and dribbling in soccer.
Academic text (2003) -
In tennis, you must serve the ball diagonally into the opponent's court to start the game.
Idioms
- Informal
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7.3
A punishment that someone deserves because of their own wrong actions
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8.2
To try to please two people or groups who want different things and fail to please either
Phrasal Verbs
- Formal
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6.5
To give someone an official written letter telling them about a change or end of an agreement
Compounds
How Fast
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word serve comes from the old Latin root serv-, from servire meaning 'to serve' or 'do duty'. In sport, a player 'offers' the ball to start play, so to serve is to begin a point by putting the ball into play.