Serve two masters

Definition

serve /sɜ:v/ v ၁။ ~ (sb) (as sth) အလုပ္အေကြၽးျပဳသည္။ … အျဖစ္ အလုပ္လုပ္သည္။ serve as (a) gardener and chauffeur ❍ He has served his master for many years. ၂။ အမႈထမ္းသည္။ တာဝန္ထမ္းေဆာင္သည္။ အသံုးေတာ္ခံသည္။ serve (a year) in the army ❍ He served as a naval officer during the war ❍ serve with the Royal Air Force ❍ serve on (ie be a member of) a committee/ board ❍ serve under sb (ie be under the command of a superior officer, leader, etc) ❍ Both as a civil servant and as a statesman he served his country well. ❍ ( fig ) This desk has served me well (ie been very useful to me) over the years. ၃။ (က) ~ sb (with sth) ; ~ sth (up) (to sb) တည္ခင္းသည္။ (စားဖြယ္ေသာက္ဖြယ္) ထည့္ေပးသည္၊ ျပင္ေပးသည္။ a waiter serving at table ❍ Who's going to serve? ❍ Dinner is served (ie is ready) ❍ The wine should be served chilled ❍ The hotel served lunch to us/ served us with lunch/ served us lunch. (ခ) ~ sb (with sth) ; ~ sth (to sb) ဝယ္သူကိုကူညီသည္။ ေရာင္းသည္။ serve in a supermarket စူပါမားကက္မွာ အေရာင္းစာေရးလုပ္သည္။ ❍ Are you being served? ❍ He served some sweets to the children. ကေလးမ်ားကို သၾကားလံုးေဝေပးသည္။ (ဂ) ~ sb/ sth (with sth) (esp passive) အသံုး(ေတာ္)ခံသည္။ ျဖည့္ဆည္း ေပးသည္။ The town is well served with public transport. ၄။ ~ (for/ as sth) ( fml ) အသံုးက်သည္။ အသံုးခ်ႏိုင္သည္။ အသံုးဝင္သည္။ This room can serve for a study. ❍ The photograph serves as a reminder/ serves to remind us of the old days. ❍ It's not exactly what I wanted but it will serve (my purpose). ၅။ …ေယာက္စာ၊ …ပြဲစာရိွသည္။ This packet of soup serves two. ၆။ တာဝန္ထမ္းသည္။ ေထာင္က်သည္။ serve a further term as governor ❍ serve two years as an apprentice/ a two-year apprenticeship အလုပ္သင္အျဖစ္ ၂-ႏွစ္တာဝန္ထမ္းသည္။ ❍ serve a life sentence for murder လူသတ္မႈျဖင့္ တစ္သက္တစ္ကြၽန္း ေထာင္က်သည္။ ❍ ( infml ) He served time for fraud. သူလိမ္လည္မႈႏွင့္ ေထာင္က်သည္။ ၇။ ~ sth (on sb) ; ~ sb with sth ( law ) (ႏို႔တစ္၊ သမၼန္စာ၊ ဝရမ္း စသည္) ေပးပို႔သည္၊ ဆင့္သည္၊ ကပ္သည္။ serve notice ❍ serve a summons/ writ/ warrant ❍ serve a court order on sb/ serve sb with a court order. ၈။ ~ (sth) (to sb) (တင္းနစ္၊ ၾကက္ေတာင္ စသည္) စေပးသည္။ It's your turn to serve (to me) ❍ She's already served two aces this game. n (တင္းနစ္စသည္) စေပးျခင္း၊ ေပးပံု၊ စလွည့္။ a fast/ powerful serve ❍ Whose serve is it? (ie Whose turn is it to serve?) ❏ serve sth out [ PHRV ] ၁။ (also serve sth up ) စားဖြယ္ လိုက္ထည့္ေပးသည္၊ တည္ခင္းသည္။ Shall I serve out the soup or would you like to help yourselves? ❍ tomatoes served up on toast. ၂။ ေက်ပြန္ရသည္။ You'll have to serve out your notice before you leave the company. ❏ server n ၁။ ( computing ) ခ်ိတ္ထားေသာ ကြန္ပ်ဴတာမ်ားသို႔ အခ်က္အလက္ေပးပို႔ေသာ ပ႐ိုဂရမ္။ ယင္းသို႔ ေဆာင္ရြက္သည့္ ကိရိယာ။ a file/ print server. ၂။ (တင္းနစ္)စေပးသူ။ ၃။ (usu pl ) (ထမင္း၊ ဟင္း စသည္) လိုက္ပြဲပန္းကန္။ salad servers. ❏ serve sb right [ IDM ] (esp with it ) ေကာင္းတယ္။ နည္း ေတာင္နည္းေသးတယ္။ ‘I got absolutely soaked. ’ ‘ It serves you right— I told you to take an umbrella. ’ ❏ serve one's/ its turn [ IDM ] အသံုးေတာ္ခံခဲ့ၿပီးျဖစ္သည္။ I finally had to sell the car, but it had served its turn. ❏ serve sb's turn [ IDM ] အသံုးေတာ္ခံခဲ့သည္။ ❏ serve two masters [ IDM ] (usu in negative sentences) ေခါင္းတစ္လံုးႏွင့္ ေရအိုးႏွစ္လံုး ရြက္သည္။ ❏ serve sth up [ PHRV ] ၁။ = SERVE STH OUT ၂။ (ဆင္ေျခစသည္)ေပးသည္။ She served up the usual excuses for being late. ❏ serving n (စားဖြယ္) တစ္ခါျပင္၊ တစ္ပြဲ၊ တစ္ေယာက္စာ။ This recipe will be enough for four servings.

Examples

1. A light meal will be served during the flight.
2. [serve something with something] : All dishes are served with a salad.
3. [serve something to someone] : A complimentary afternoon tea is served to all guests.
4. [serve breakfast/lunch/dinner etc] : Dinner is served between 7 and 10 pm.
5. [serve someone with something] : The waiter served them both with salmon poached in white wine.
6. [serve someone something] : Carolyn served them tea and cake in the garden.
7. [serve something hot/cold etc] : The cheese is best served at room temperature.
8. We were served huge portions of spare ribs.
9. The recipe serves four as a light lunch.
10. He served more than 20 years in the army.
11. Frank has served this company his whole working life.
12. [serve as] : Mr Russell served as president of the Association for fifteen years.
13. [serve on] : Henry served on numerous committees and commissions.
14. [serve in] : I met my wife
15. Rachel
16. while serving in the Royal Navy.
17. [serve an apprenticeship] : Sylvie served her apprenticeship with a top Paris designer.
18. [serve as] : Their spare room also serves as an office.
19. [serve as a reminder/warning] : The decision should serve as a warning to companies that pollute the environment.
20. [serve to remind/illustrate/emphasize/strengthen] : His death serves to remind us just how dangerous using drugs can be.
21. [serve a purpose] : That’s a stupid rule. What purpose is it supposed to serve?
22. [serve someone’s interests] : They voted for a chairman who might better serve their interests.
23. [serve someone well] : His ability to get on with people served him well in setting up his own business.
24. [serve time] : She served time in Holloway for assaulting a police officer.
25. [serve a sentence] : He’s serving a life sentence for murder.
26. These gas pipes serve the whole area.
27. [serve the needs of] : A new hospital to serve the needs of the local community
28. [serve someone with something] : She was served with a summons to appear in court.
29. [serve something on/upon someone] : The notice must be served upon the tenant and include a legal description of the breach they have committed.