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serve
Verb
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When you serve food or drink, you give it to somebody to eat or drink, especially as a host.
Shall I serve your drinks first?
Lunch is served from 11:00 until 3:00.
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If something serves (as something), it used or useful for a certain purpose.
This cup can serve as a holder for my paintbrushes.
This program has served as a model for smaller enterprises throughout the state.
His experiences during the war served as the basis for his book.
The area is served by a number of schools.
The law no longer serves the function it once did.
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When you serve (as something), you work.
John served in the army.
He served as the director of the company from 1992 until 2003.
He serves the king.
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If you serve time in prison, you stay there because you are a criminal.
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If you serve, in a game like tennis, you begin play by sending something like a ball over a net.
serve
Noun
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A serve in a game like tennis is the action beginning of play by sending something like a ball over a net.
Whose serve is it?
That was a great serve!
yourselves
Pronoun
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You use yourselves when the people doing an action and receiving an action are both you.
Be careful children. You'll hurt yourselves.
Are you happy with yourselves?
I heard you and your sister got yourselves a new pet.
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Use for emphasis.
Don't pretend you don't know. You yourselves have seen these kinds of problems.
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If you do something by yourselves, you do it alone.
That's beautiful, boys. Did you make it by yourselves?
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If you don't feel yourself, you are different from usual, because you are sick, scared, stressed, etc.