What's the difference between servant and service?

Servant


Definition:

  • (n.) One who serves, or does services, voluntarily or on compulsion; a person who is employed by another for menial offices, or for other labor, and is subject to his command; a person who labors or exerts himself for the benefit of another, his master or employer; a subordinate helper.
  • (n.) One in a state of subjection or bondage.
  • (n.) A professed lover or suitor; a gallant.
  • (v. t.) To subject.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) There was also acknowledgement for two long-term servants to the men’s game who will both leave the Premier League for Major League Soccer this summer.
  • (2) The Dacre review panel, which included Sir Joseph Pilling, a retired senior civil servant, and the historian Prof Sir David Cannadine, said Britain now had one of the "less liberal" regimes in Europe for access to confidential government papers and that reform was needed to restore some trust between politicians and people.
  • (3) I am one of those retired civil servants who has not received my pension.
  • (4) Senior civil servant Simon Case joined the UK’s EU embassy in March to lead work on the new partnership with the bloc, but EU diplomats are unsure how he fits into the picture.
  • (5) The report was addressed personally to Farr and says it is not to be seen by civil servants, only by him, ministers and their special advisers.
  • (6) "Public servants did nothing to cause the slump but are being asked to bear an unfair share of the burden.
  • (7) So sensitive is the case that Hunt, his civil servants and advisers are expected to rebuff any external lobbying – so they can base their judgement only on a analysis of the public interest issues raised by the proposed deal that was completed by media regulator Ofcom today.
  • (8) A series of reports, written by civil servants and approved by ministers, will be published from the spring of next year until 2014 to examine the impact of everything from directives to the European Court of Justice.
  • (9) Here, the balance of power is clear: the master is dominating the servant – and not the other way around, as is the case with Google Now and the poor.
  • (10) Unions warned it could lead to a system where civil servants were loyal to their political masters rather than the taxpayer.
  • (11) Similar measurements were made in subjects with essential hypertension (77 white and 23 black), and 48 healthy normotensive white civil servants.
  • (12) You've just joined Twitter – why would you recommend it to other civil servants?
  • (13) Public servants who loved their useful work find only a few hours waiting on tables.
  • (14) The package included pay rises for civil servants and security personnel.
  • (15) "There are idle MPs with no outside interests and there are fantastic public servants that do have them."
  • (16) Helena writes: Ilias Iliopoulos, a leading figure at ADEDY, Greece's union of civil servants, has just told me: “This is a warning to the government not to pass the measures.Today was a huge success as witnessed by all those in the armed forces and police who also participated because they, too, will be affected by these cuts.
  • (17) Because for more than a year, he had bent the rules, constantly and persistently, in the face of warnings from his most senior civil servants?
  • (18) The public servants’ ethos, their attachment to the civic realm, has been systematically trashed as mere unionised self-interest.
  • (19) It blamed "confrontation maniacs" for "[making their] servants of conservative media let loose a whole string of sophism intended to hatch all sorts of dastardly wicked plots and float misinformation".
  • (20) The current authors explored this issue in a cohort of 18,274 male civil servants, among whom there were 1,282 cancer deaths over 18-20 years of follow-up.

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.