English | German | Russian | Czech

serial English

Meaning serial meaning

What does serial mean?
Definitions in simple English

serial

A serial is a story or play appearing in pieces on a radio or magazine. The Asterix comics appeared in magazines as a serial for many years.

serial

If something is considered to be serial, it takes place in multiple times. A newspaper is a serial publication.

serial

in regular succession without gaps serial concerts of or relating to the sequential performance of multiple operations serial processing pertaining to or occurring in or producing a series serial monogamy serial killing a serial killer serial publication pertaining to or composed in serial technique serial music (= series) a serialized set of programs a comedy series the Masterworks concert series (= series) a periodical that appears at scheduled times

Synonyms serial synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as serial?

Topics serial topics

What do people use serial to talk about?

Examples serial examples

How do I use serial in a sentence?

Simple sentences

The television serial is getting more and more interesting.
I've read several books about serial killers.
Betty is a serial killer.
Does Betty's son know that his mother is a serial killer?
Tom had no idea that Mary was a serial killer.
You're a serial killer.
Every serial killer was somebody's baby once.
The serial killer was cold and distant during his trial, and appeared unaffected by the fact that he had murdered so many people.
Most serial killers have experienced brutal childhoods, but very few people who experienced brutal childhoods later become serial killers.
Mary, the famous forensic psychologist and writer, was inspired by Tatoeba to write a novel about Tom, the serial killer from Boston.
If it goes well, I'll put you forward for a drama serial.
The serial killer was a slave to his desires.
The police suspect Tom is a serial killer.
The police suspect that Tom is a serial killer.

Movie subtitles

Scandinavian serial killers? Pretty much.
What if it's a Freddy-Krueger-type serial killer who chains us up in our dreams?
The serial killer sounds just like Dad.
I mean, it looks like some sort of serial number.
Did you get the serial numbers?
Serial numbers check out?
What's the serial number?
You're collecting serial numbers?
That joint has got the serial number of every bill.
They claimed that the hole is where the serial number was.
No, not the war, the serial.
The minute those clever ones get away from name, rank and serial number.
Or are we confined to name, rank and serial number?
S. McKendrick. Serial number 4-7-5-3-2.
You can't leave us like the daily instalment of a newspaper serial.
It makes it worth it. Reading his serial is the best part of the day.
It's your army serial number.
Note the serial numbers.
Serial number 0-4-5-0-5-2-7-3.
Here lies Corporal Herbert Thomson serial number zero-one-two- three-four-five-six-seven.
Remember, only name, rank and serial number.
Reading his serial is the best part of the day.
Durand is a serial killer.
Twelve-Tone Music, atonal music serial music...are now familiar to all leading musicians.
I'm hunting down a serial killer, still at large.
This blocks any chance of giving this guy bills with consecutive serial numbers, you know that, don't you?
Note the serial numbers on the bills. and whoever you suspect got them. check the numbers somehow, in his pockets or wallet.
What's your name, rank and serial number?
Give Clayton this man's name, rank and serial number. For all of them.
Serial number 726256.
Spock: Serial number S 179-276 SP.
Serial number SC 937-0176 CEC.
United States Air Force, serial number 4857932.
Augusta, this dismissal letter would fit well in a serial novel.

News and current affairs

Indeed, China has a track record as a serial proliferator, having helped Pakistan build its atomic bomb.
That paraphrase of Oscar Wilde aptly sums up the current state of Japanese politics, given the serial resignations of Prime Ministers Shinzo Abe and Yasuo Fukuda.
Mao is certainly a more interesting figure than were many tyrants - a poet, an intellectual, a student of history as well as a serial philanderer, who, according to his doctor, Li Zhisui, liked to swim in water, not bathe in it.
Creditors have known this since at least the sixteenth century, when Spain's King Philip II became the world's first known serial sovereign defaulter.
Hitherto EU governments have largely pretended that enlargement is a small-scale serial process, with individual new members coming in one after another.
Indeed, without his ideology, Che would have been nothing more than another serial killer.
Ideological sloganeering allowed him to kill in larger numbers than any serial killer could imagine, and all in the name of justice.
Indeed, in the twelve months following the unconditional surrender of Hitler's Nazi regime in May 1945, I lived under serial Russian, American, and British occupation.
Rapid and automatic serial reconstruction of large tissue volumes, enabled by the recent development of automated electron microscopy techniques, is the method of choice in defining the synaptome.
Second, it is now no longer possible to think of the enlargement of the European Union just as a serial process which happens one case at a time.
Contagion soon spread across East Asia, with the ripple effects of serial currency devaluations reaching as far as Russia and Brazil.

Are you looking for...?