serving

(personal) To provide a service (or, by extension, a product, especially food or drink).

To treat (someone) in a given manner.

To be suitor to; to be the lover of.

To be effective.

To deliver a document.

To lead off with the first delivery over the net in tennis, volleyball, ping pong, badminton etc.

To copulate with (of male animals); to cover.

To be in military service.

To work, to operate (a weapon).

To work through (a given period of time in prison, a sentence).

To wind spun yarn etc. tightly around (a rope or cable, etc.) so as to protect it from chafing or from the weather.

To perform (a public obligation).

“I've received a summons for jury duty. It says I serve one day or one trial.”

To provide crack cocaine (to), usually by selling, dealing, or distributing.

The action of the verb to serve.

A portion (especially, of a meal) served to someone.

A layer added to the outside of an electrical cable to protect it.

That or who serves or serve.

“a serving-girl”