What's the difference between ladle and serve?

Ladle


Definition:

  • (v. t.) A cuplike spoon, often of large size, with a long handle, used in lading or dipping.
  • (v. t.) A vessel to carry liquid metal from the furnace to the mold.
  • (v. t.) The float of a mill wheel; -- called also ladle board.
  • (v. t.) An instrument for drawing the charge of a cannon.
  • (v. t.) A ring, with a handle or handles fitted to it, for carrying shot.
  • (v. t.) To take up and convey in a ladle; to dip with, or as with, a ladle; as, to ladle out soup; to ladle oatmeal into a kettle.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) They are also known for space-saving devices such as utensils which pack neatly on top of each other in a stand, spatulas, palette knifes and ladles that use a weighted handle to avoid being placed on the countertop, thus saving cleaning.
  • (2) My grandad used to deliver the milk and ladle it into people’s teapots.
  • (3) The highest dust exposures were found during furnace, cupola, and pouring ladle repair.
  • (4) The latest recovery has been robust, but it was always a fantasy to believe that the ECB could solve all the euro's problems with its long-term refinancing operations, ladling out ultra-cheap three-year money to European banks .
  • (5) Ladle a little of the pasta cooking water into the other pan.
  • (6) Pour in a small ladleful of batter and swirl around to cover the base of the pan.
  • (7) 7 Ladle the sauce into a warmed serving dish and arrange the koftas on top.
  • (8) There's some shared soup somewhere in my head from which these two things are ladling."
  • (9) When the first ladleful is absorbed add the trevisano and stir through (this will gradually soften throughout the cooking process).
  • (10) In the 1st part of the experiment, older and younger adults read a series of high-cloze sentence frames, each missing its final word (e.g., "She ladled the soup into her____.").
  • (11) A malacological survey was undertaken at three-monthly intervals by means of ten scoops with a perforated ladle each ten metres along the two banks of the ditches and streams of the region.
  • (12) She has ladled out countless bowls of her pork noodle soup, but the owner of a Hanoi streetside restaurant says she was stunned when Barack Obama strolled in, pulled up a plastic stool and slurped down Vietnam’s famed “bun cha” delicacy.
  • (13) Once the pan is really hot, reduce the heat to medium and add the pancake mix using a ladle – about 2tbsp of batter per crepe.
  • (14) When the butter starts to sizzle, give the batter a quick stir, then pour or ladle in enough to give a wafer-thin layer.
  • (15) Add the enoki mushrooms to the broth, simmer for a minute or two, then ladle over the cheeks.
  • (16) Use a ladle to apply a thin layer of pancake mixture to the pan, try to cook it with no colour - approximately two minutes, and then turn it.
  • (17) One of my happiest food memories is of eating a black dhal (made with the dark unskinned "urad" lentil) before sunrise in Pakistan during Ramadan – rich and spicy and thickened with heavy ladles of butter or "ghee" to fill you up for the day.
  • (18) It’s set to invade your mind all over again: those four trilling balalaika notes, like four great big tablespoons of treacle ladled into your mind.
  • (19) Keep checking the rice after about 20 minutes and when almost done add another ladleful of stock, the parmesan, a squeeze of lemon, the remaining butter and stir.
  • (20) On every street corner of this district, at around noon, a woman with a big tin pot ladles out thick gruel to a stream of small children carrying tin bowls.

Serve


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To work for; to labor in behalf of; to exert one's self continuously or statedly for the benefit of; to do service for; to be in the employment of, as an inferior, domestic, serf, slave, hired assistant, official helper, etc.; specifically, in a religious sense, to obey and worship.
  • (v. t.) To be subordinate to; to act a secondary part under; to appear as the inferior of; to minister to.
  • (v. t.) To be suitor to; to profess love to.
  • (v. t.) To wait upon; to supply the wants of; to attend; specifically, to wait upon at table; to attend at meals; to supply with food; as, to serve customers in a shop.
  • (v. t.) Hence, to bring forward, arrange, deal, or distribute, as a portion of anything, especially of food prepared for eating; -- often with up; formerly with in.
  • (v. t.) To perform the duties belonging to, or required in or for; hence, to be of use to; as, a curate may serve two churches; to serve one's country.
  • (v. t.) To contribute or conduce to; to promote; to be sufficient for; to satisfy; as, to serve one's turn.
  • (v. t.) To answer or be (in the place of something) to; as, a sofa serves one for a seat and a couch.
  • (v. t.) To treat; to behave one's self to; to requite; to act toward; as, he served me very ill.
  • (v. t.) To work; to operate; as, to serve the guns.
  • (v. t.) To bring to notice, deliver, or execute, either actually or constructively, in such manner as the law requires; as, to serve a summons.
  • (v. t.) To make legal service opon (a person named in a writ, summons, etc.); as, to serve a witness with a subp/na.
  • (v. t.) To pass or spend, as time, esp. time of punishment; as, to serve a term in prison.
  • (v. t.) To copulate with; to cover; as, a horse serves a mare; -- said of the male.
  • (v. t.) To lead off in delivering (the ball).
  • (v. t.) To wind spun yarn, or the like, tightly around (a rope or cable, etc.) so as to protect it from chafing or from the weather. See under Serving.
  • (v. i.) To be a servant or a slave; to be employed in labor or other business for another; to be in subjection or bondage; to render menial service.
  • (v. i.) To perform domestic offices; to be occupied with household affairs; to prepare and dish up food, etc.
  • (v. i.) To be in service; to do duty; to discharge the requirements of an office or employment. Specifically, to act in the public service, as a soldier, seaman. etc.
  • (v. i.) To be of use; to answer a purpose; to suffice; to suit; to be convenient or favorable.
  • (v. i.) To lead off in delivering the ball.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These variants may serve as useful gene markers in alcohol research involving animal model studies with inbred strains in mice.
  • (2) The results indicated that neuropsychological measures may serve to broaden the concept of intelligence and that a brain-related criterion may contribute to a fuller understanding of its nature.
  • (3) The possibility that the ventral nerve photoreceptor cells serve a neurosecretory function in the adult Limulus is discussed.
  • (4) Despite a 10-year deadline to have the same number of ethnic minority officers in the ranks as in the populations they serve, the target was missed and police are thousands of officers short.
  • (5) Evidence is presented in support of the hypothesis that fresh bat guano serves as a means of pathogenic fungi dissemination in caves.
  • (6) Human gingival fibroblasts were allowed to attach and spread on bio-glasses for 1-72 h. Unreactive silica glass and cell culture polystyrene served as controls.
  • (7) Abbott also unveiled his new ministry, which confirmed only one woman would serve in the first Abbott cabinet.
  • (8) Patients served as their individual control based on observations of at least 1 year before the study.
  • (9) It is entirely proper for serving judges to set out the arguments in high-profile cases to help public understanding of the legal issues, as long as it is done in an even-handed way.
  • (10) Female littermates injected with 0.15 M NaCl served as controls.
  • (11) One-half of the specimens were treated with citric acid, pH 1, for 3 minutes, while the remainder served as untreated control specimens.
  • (12) The functions of O-GlcNAc remain largely unknown, but it may be important in blocking phosphorylation sites, it may be required for the assembly of specific multiprotein complexes, it might serve as a nuclear transport signal, or it may be directly involved in the active transport of macromolecules across nuclear pores.
  • (13) It has 200 volunteers each week to serve 38,000 individuals.
  • (14) Child age was negatively correlated with mother's use of commands, reasoning, threats, and bribes, and positively correlated with maternal nondirectives, servings, and child compliance.
  • (15) We suggest that neuronal PACAP may serve to modulate motor activity and secretion in the lower esophageal sphincter region.
  • (16) In a poll before the debate, 48% predicted that Merkel, who will become Europe's longest serving leader if re-elected on 22 September, would emerge as the winner of the US-style debate, while 26% favoured Steinbruck, a former finance minister who is known for his quick-wit and rhetorical skills, but sometimes comes across as arrogant.
  • (17) Eight vagotomy-gastrectomy dogs were studied; 4 had a jejunal fistula, and 4 other dogs without a fistula served as controls.
  • (18) It is suggested the participation of glycogen (starch) in the self-oscillatory mechanism of the futile cycle formed by the phosphofructokinase and fructose bisphosphatase reactions may give rise to oscillations with the period of 10(3)-10(4) min, which may serve as the basis for the cell clock.
  • (19) Variables from the medical history, physical examination, laboratory tests, and radiographs were used to develop different sets of criteria to serve different investigative purposes.
  • (20) This system may serve as a model to explain the mechanisms by which cells accumulate in inflamed joints.