What's the difference between disservice and service?

Disservice


Definition:

  • (n.) Injury; mischief.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 8.41am BST Oscar Trial Channel (@OscarTrial199) Masipa says leaking of documents is disservice to justice, and that person who does it, is a thief.
  • (2) By pretending to ignore the scientific evidence, AquaBounty is doing readers a disservice.
  • (3) Come to that, in a Westminster week where only Syria has displaced allegations of horrifying bullying in the Conservative youth wing – which involve a young man taking his own life – we surely do a disservice to the victims most in need of our help if we fail to make a distinction between bullying and dissent.
  • (4) Philip Purser, the Sunday Telegraph's long-serving TV critic, wrote in his 1992 autobiography, Done Viewing, that "the gravest disservice that Dallas did television was to create an appetite for flavours so strong and artificial that the palate was ruined for more subtle and natural tastes".
  • (5) John Sauven, executive director of Greenpeace UK, said: "The CBI claims to represent the interests of British industry but it's actually doing its members a great disservice.
  • (6) To have so few diverse representatives from the community does it a disservice.
  • (7) We would be doing a disservice to those warriors of justice … were we to deny that the scars of our nation’s original sin are still with us today,” he said.
  • (8) A call is made for physicians to continuously look for cheaper ways of managing patients without necessarily causing any disservice to the patient.
  • (9) Preserving the "every woman can nurse" myth contributes to perpetuating a simplistic view of lactation and does a disservice to the small percentage of women with primary causes of unsuccessful lactation.
  • (10) With that exclusion, they did all of us a disservice, because that history is Australia’s history, it is important for all Australians to know where we’ve come from, and by pretending it didn’t exist, they robbed us all of something unique.
  • (11) We do a disservice to the cause of justice by intimating that bias and discrimination are immutable, or that racial division is inherent to America.
  • (12) "This conduct is gross disservice to Chinua Achebe and disrespectful of the life-engrossing occupation known as literature.
  • (13) It had been dubbed "the female answer to The Hangover" – a niche women's film – but to pigeonhole it in such a way is to do it a huge disservice.
  • (14) They have done a disservice to the field in disparaging basic research.
  • (15) October 31, 2013 12.04am GMT Email From Matthew: I know it is easy to decry the coverage by Fox, but they really did a disservice to the audience by breaking away from the Dropkick Murphys firing up the Boston faithful.
  • (16) When the pontiff can’t bring the hammer down hard on one of the globe’s most egregious and well-documented bishops complicit in child abuse cover-ups, he does a disservice to disillusioned Catholics who expect real reform.
  • (17) The physician who delays or defers a careful investigation into the cause of a given patient's hematuria (gross or microscopic) does the patient a disservice at best and, at worst, may inadvertently permit a significant disease process to become more extensive.
  • (18) By operating in isolation and missing the bigger picture, we can do them a disservice.
  • (19) The use of mythology to simplify experiments, to artificially "clarify" complex issues, or to "protect" patients is seen as a disservice.
  • (20) If you try to deny that's there, I do myself and the people I represent a disservice."

Service


Definition:

  • () Alt. of Service
  • () A name given to several trees and shrubs of the genus Pyrus, as Pyrus domestica and P. torminalis of Europe, the various species of mountain ash or rowan tree, and the American shad bush (see Shad bush, under Shad). They have clusters of small, edible, applelike berries.
  • (n.) The act of serving; the occupation of a servant; the performance of labor for the benefit of another, or at another's command; attendance of an inferior, hired helper, slave, etc., on a superior, employer, master, or the like; also, spiritual obedience and love.
  • (n.) The deed of one who serves; labor performed for another; duty done or required; office.
  • (n.) Office of devotion; official religious duty performed; religious rites appropriate to any event or ceremonial; as, a burial service.
  • (n.) Hence, a musical composition for use in churches.
  • (n.) Duty performed in, or appropriate to, any office or charge; official function; hence, specifically, military or naval duty; performance of the duties of a soldier.
  • (n.) Useful office; advantage conferred; that which promotes interest or happiness; benefit; avail.
  • (n.) Profession of respect; acknowledgment of duty owed.
  • (n.) The act and manner of bringing food to the persons who eat it; order of dishes at table; also, a set or number of vessels ordinarily used at table; as, the service was tardy and awkward; a service of plate or glass.
  • (n.) The act of bringing to notice, either actually or constructively, in such manner as is prescribed by law; as, the service of a subp/na or an attachment.
  • (n.) The materials used for serving a rope, etc., as spun yarn, small lines, etc.
  • (n.) The act of serving the ball.
  • (n.) Act of serving or covering. See Serve, v. t., 13.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Indicators for evaluation and monitoring and outcome measures are described within the context of health service management to describe control measure output in terms of community effectiveness.
  • (2) National policy on the longer-term future of the services will not be known until the government publishes a national music plan later this term.
  • (3) Parents of subjects at the experimental school were visited at home by a community health worker who provided individualized information on dental services and preventive strategies.
  • (4) Handing Greater Manchester’s £6bn health and social care budget over to the city’s combined authority is the most exciting experiment in local government and the health service in decades – but the risks are huge.
  • (5) In order to control noise- and vibration-caused diseases it was necessary not only to improve machines' quality and service conditions but also to pay special attention to the choice of operators and to the quality of monitoring their adaptation process.
  • (6) Historical analysis shows that institutions and special education services spring from common, although not identical, societal and philosophical forces.
  • (7) Peter retired in 1998, when he was appointed CBE for his services to drama.
  • (8) 8.47pm: Cameron says he believes Britain's best days lie ahead and that he believes in public service.
  • (9) The dangers caused by PM10s was highlighted in the Rogers review of local authority regulatory services, published in 2007, which said poor air quality contributed to between 12,000 and 24,000 premature deaths each year.
  • (10) Businesses fleeing Brexit will head to New York not EU, warns LSE chief Read more Amid attempts by Frankfurt, Paris and Dublin to catch possible fallout from London, Sir Jon Cunliffe said it was highly unlikely that any EU centre could replicate the services offered by the UK’s financial services industry.
  • (11) The so-called literati aren't insular – this from a woman who ran the security service – but we aren't going to apologise for what we believe in either.
  • (12) For services to Victims of Domestic and Sexual Violence.
  • (13) They also demonstrate the viability of a family support service which relies on inmate leadership, community volunteer participation, and institutional support.
  • (14) MI6 introduced him to the Spanish intelligence service and in 2006 he travelled to Madrid.
  • (15) I hope I can play a major part in really highlighting the need for far more extensive family violence training within all organisations that deal with women and children, including the police and the department of human services,” Batty said.
  • (16) A retrospective study examined the reactions to the termination of pregnancy for fetal malformation and the follow up services that were available.
  • (17) Neal’s evidence to the committee said Future Fund staff were not subject to the public service bargaining framework, which links any pay rise to productivity increases and caps rises at 1.5%.
  • (18) A case is presented of a 35-year-old woman who was brought to the emergency service by ambulance complaining of vomiting for 7 days and that she could not hear well because she was 'worn out'.
  • (19) Under a revised deal most people are now being vetted on time, but charges for the service have had to rise from £12 and free vetting for volunteers, to £28 for a standard disclosure and £33 for an advanced disclosure.
  • (20) Providers of services and their reimbursement will also expand.

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