service | the performance of duties by a waiter or servant, that restaurant has excellent service |
curb service | service provided to customers who remain in their vehicles |
self-service | the practice of serving yourself (as in a grocery or cafeteria) |
overhaul inspection and repair service | periodic maintenance on a car or machine, it was time for an overhaul on the tractor |
service serving service of process | the act of delivering a writ or summons upon someone, he accepted service of the subpoena |
service cutback | the act of reducing service |
serve service | (sports) a stroke that puts the ball in play, his powerful serves won the game |
service | work done by one person or group that benefits another, budget separately for goods and services |
consulting service | service provided by a professional advisor (e.g., a lawyer or doctor or CPA etc.) |
advisory service | a consulting service in which a CPA develops findings and conclusions and recommendations that are presented to the client for consideration and decision making |
attestation service attestation report | a consulting service in which a CPA expresses a conclusion about the reliability of a written statement that is the responsibility of someone else |
national service | compulsory service in the military during peacetime |
service | (law) the acts performed by an English feudal tenant for the benefit of his lord which formed the consideration for the property granted to him |
military service | land tenure by service in the lord's army |
knight's service | land tenure by service to the lord as a knight |
welfare work social service | an organized activity to improve the condition of disadvantaged people in society |
service | employment in or work for another, he retired afteryears of service |
public service | employment within a government system (especially in the civil service) |
electrical work | the craft of an electrician |
electrotherapy galvanism electric healing electrical healing | the therapeutic application of electricity to the body (as in the treatment of various forms of paralysis) |
sea-duty service abroad shipboard duty | naval service aboard a ship at sea |
electric shock electrical shock shock | a reflex response to the passage of electric current through the body, subjects received a small electric shock when they made the wrong response, electricians get accustomed to occasional shocks |
servicing service | the act of mating by male animals, the bull was worth good money in servicing fees |
galvanic skin response GSR psychogalvanic response electrodermal response electrical skin response Fere phenomenon Tarchanoff phenomenon | a change in the electrical properties of the skin in response to stress or anxiety, can be measured either by recording the electrical resistance of the skin or by recording weak currents generated by the body |
extension extension service university extension | an educational opportunity provided by colleges and universities to people who are not enrolled as regular students |
cottage industry | small-scale industry that can be carried on at home by family members using their own equipment |
industry manufacture | the organized action of making of goods and services for sale, American industry is making increased use of computers to control production |
service religious service divine service | the act of public worship following prescribed rules, the Sunday service |
church service church | a service conducted in a house of worship, don't be late for church |
prayer meeting prayer service | a service at which people sing hymns and pray together |
chapel service chapel | a service conducted in a place of worship that has its own altar, he was late for chapel |
committal service | service committing a body to the grave, the committal service will be held next Monday |
conscription muster draft selective service | compulsory military service |
service | an act of help or assistance, he did them a service |
disservice ill service ill turn | an act intended to help that turns out badly, he did them a disservice |
community service | an unpaid service for the benefit of the public that is performed by lawbreakers as part (or all) of their sentence |
community service public service | a service that is performed for the benefit of the public or its institutions |
inter-service support | action by one military service to provide logistic (or administrative) support to another military service |
service call | a trip made by a repairman to visit the location of something in need of service |
cable cable television cable system cable television service | a television system that transmits over cables |
capacitor capacitance condenser electrical condenser | an electrical device characterized by its capacity to store an electric charge |
circuit electrical circuit electric circuit | an electrical device that provides a path for electrical current to flow |
dinner service dinner set | a table service for serving dinner |
distributor distributer electrical distributor | electrical device that distributes voltage to the spark plugs of a gasoline engine in the order of the firing sequence |
electrical cable | a cable that provides an electrical connection for telephone or television or power stations |
electrical contact | contact that allows current to pass from one conductor to another |
electrical converter | converter that converts alternating current into direct current or vice versa |
electrical device | a device that produces or is powered by electricity |
electrical system | equipment in a motor vehicle that provides electricity to start the engine and ignite the fuel and operate the lights and windshield wiper and heater and air conditioner and radio |
electrical system electrical plant | utility that provides electricity |