Service can refer to:
- Public services, services carried out with the aim of providing a public good
- Service (economics), the non-material equivalent of a good in economics and marketing
- Service (music), musical settings for sections of a service of worship
- Service (record label)
- Service (motor vehicle)
- Service Tree (Sorbus domestica), a species of tree
- Service Sector, the tertiary sector of industry
- Military service, a country's armed forces
- Civil service, career employees of government
- Domestic service, employment in a residence
- Community service, volunteer service for the benefit of a community
- Customer service, provision of assistance to customers or clients
- Service of worship, a meeting for the worship of a religious deity
- Service of process, the delivery of a summons, complaint or other court petition
- Penetrant (mechanical, electrical, or structural), as defined by a building code
- Serve (tennis) or service, a shot to start a point in tennis
In technology:
- Service (systems architecture), the provision of a discrete function within a systems environment
- Windows service, a background computer program in Microsoft Windows
- Web service, a software system to support interaction over a network
- A program in the Services menu that processes selected data
- IRC services, a set of features implemented in most modern Internet Relay Chat networks
People with the surname Service
- John S. Service (1909-1999), American diplomat
- Robert W. Service (1874-1958), poet
- Robert Service (historian), (born 1947), British historian
See also
Public services is a term usually used to mean services provided by Government to its Citizens, either directly (through the Public sector) or A service is the non-material equivalent of a good. A service provision is an economic activity that does not result in Ownership, and this is what differentiates In Anglican church music, a Service is a musical setting of certain parts of the Liturgy, generally for Choir with or without organ accompaniment Service is an Independent record label formed in Gothenburg, Sweden in December 2001 A motor vehicle service is a series of maintenance procedures carried out at a set time interval or after the vehicle has travelled a certain distance Sorbus domestica ( Service Tree, or sometimes True Service Tree to distinguish it from the Wild Service Tree; syn Military service in its simplest sense is service by an individual or group in an Army or other military organization whether as a chosen job or as a result of an involuntary See also Bureaucrat The term civil service has two distinct meanings Branch of governmental service in which individuals are hired on the basis A domestic worker, domestic, servingman, servingwoman, or servant is one who works and often also lives within the employer's household Community service refers to service that a person performs for the benefit of his or her local Community. Customer service (also known as Client Service) is the provision of service to customers before during and after a purchase In the Protestant denominations of Christianity, a service of worship is a meeting whose primary purpose is the Worship of God. Service of process is the procedure employed to give Legal notice to a person (such as a defendant of a Court or administrative body's exercise of Penetrants, or penetrating items, are the mechanical electrical or structural items that pass through an opening in a wall or floor such as pipes, electrical A serve (or more formally a service) in Tennis is a shot to start a point. In the context of Enterprise architecture, Service-orientation, and Service-oriented architecture, the term service refers to a discretely defined set of On Microsoft Windows Operating systems a Windows service is a long-running executable that performs specific functions and which is designed not to require user intervention A Web service (also Web Service) is defined by the W3C as "a software system designed to support interoperable machine-to-machine interaction The Services menu (or simply Services) is a User interface element in a computer Operating system. Internet Relay Chat services (usually called IRC services) is a name for a set of features implemented in most modern Internet Relay Chat networks John Stewart Service ( 3 August 1909 - 3 February 1999) was an American diplomat who served in the Foreign Service in China Robert William Service ( January 16, 1874 &ndash September 11, 1958) was a poet and writer Professor Robert John Service (born 29 October 1947) is a British Historian of Russia.Dictionary
service
-noun
- An event in which an entity takes the responsibility that something desirable happens on the behalf of another entity.
- (economics) Action or work that is produced, then traded, bought or sold, then finally consumed.
- (computing) A function that is provided by one program or machine for another.
- 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.
- (law) The serving, or delivery, of a summons or writ.
- (public service) that which is provided by the government or its agents
- (religion) Doing something for someone else without thought of reward or payment.
-verb
- (transitive) To serve
- (transitive) To perform maintenance
- (transitive, vulgar) To perform a sexual act
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