() 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.
Vespers
Definition:
(n.) One of the little hours of the Breviary.
(n.) The evening song or service.
Example Sentences:
(1) Lumbosacral and associated leg pain and paresthesias arousing patients from a sound sleep, or Vesper's curse, has been previously reported.
(2) Why monteverdi wrote the vespers of the holy virgin when he wrote them, how the reformation affected music, how the first and second world war affected both classical music and art music and jazz and popular music - it’s an incredible project.” Fred Deakin for Modulations Photograph: Supplied Jones is also looking forward to the Modulations program, curated by Modular’s Steve Pavlovic and headlined by the Pet Shop Boys.
(3) The motor equivalent of Vesper's curse was evaluated by electromography, evoked potentials, CAT scan, and myelography.
(4) On the contrary, laboratory mice and cricetids failed to show Hantavirus infection while the wild vesper mouse Calomys musculinus (the main Junin virus reservoir) showed a prevalence of 23.5%.
(5) Hume's first act was to lead the monks of Ampleforth to Westminster Abbey to sing vespers there for the first time since the Reformation.
(6) Cameron was likened to a Vesper Martini, a Mercedes, Dick Dastardly and Hugh Grant.
(7) A mycobacterial antigens circadian variation in correlation with vesperal fever in tuberculous patients was not revealed.
(8) But the ravages of deindustrialisation only encouraged Nyman to hook up with Christopher Monks, artistic director of the Armonico Consort – a polyphonic choral group – to bring Hillfields and Monteverdi together: this month, children from Frederick Bird will be involved in a project called Monteverdi's Flying Circus, singing the Ave Maris Stella from the Italian master's 1610 Vespers.
(9) While St John Paul II and Benedict XVI celebrated mass in Yankee stadium during their New York visits, Francis will celebrate mass for a slightly smaller crowd in Madison Square Garden, and preside over a vespers service at the newly spruced-up St Patrick’s Cathedral.
(10) With apologies to Vesper Lynd , if the only thing left of The Living Daylights was Maryam d'Abo's smile and the taut early sequence that culminates with Timothy Dalton's 007 deliberately missing a shot at cellist turned sniper Kara Milovy , it would still be my favourite Bond film.
(11) 3) non offset venous insufficiency with frequent, if not continuous, vesperal edema.
(12) "Vesperal" urinary cortisol measured on a collected urine sample between 20 h and 24 h was higher in pregnant women since the beginning of pregnancy as compared to that of non pregnant women.
(13) A 23-year-old male Pondichery native consulted for vesperal dispnoea.