different between exercise vs service

English

Alternative forms

• exercice (obsolete; noun senses only)

Etymology

From Middle English exercise, from Old French exercise, from Latin exercitium.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??k.s?.sa?z/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??k.s?.sa?z/
• Hyphenation: ex?er?cise

Noun

exercise (countable and uncountable, plural exercises)

1. (countable) Any activity designed to develop or hone a skill or ability.
   • an exercise of the eyes and memory

2. (countable, uncountable) Activity intended to improve physical, or sometimes mental, strength and fitness.

   • This new-comer was a man who in any company would have seemed striking. […] He was smooth-faced, and his fresh skin and well-developed figure bespoke the man in good physical condition through active exercise, yet well content with the world's apportionment.
3. A setting in action or practicing; employment in the proper mode of activity; exertion; application; use.
   • December 8, 1801, Thomas Jefferson, first annual message

     exercise of the important function confided by the constitution to the legislature

   • O we will walk this world, / Yoked in all exercise of noble end.

4. The performance of an office, ceremony, or duty.

   I assisted the ailing vicar in the exercise of his parish duties.

   • Lewis […] refused even those of the church of England […] the public exercise of their religion.
5. (obsolete) That which gives practice; a trial; a test.

Derived terms

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Translations

Verb

exercise (third-person singular simple present exercises, present participle exercising, simple past and past participle exercised)

1. To exert for the sake of training or improvement; to practice in order to develop.

2. (intransitive) To perform physical activity for health or training.

3. (transitive) To use (a right, an option, etc.); to put into practice.
4. (now often in passive) To occupy the attention and effort of; to task; to tax, especially in a painful or vexatious manner; harass; to vex; to worry or make anxious.
5. (obsolete) To set in action; to cause to act, move, or make exertion; to give employment to.

Translations

See also

• train
• work out

Further reading

• exercise in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• exercise in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

English

Alternative forms

• seruice (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?s??v?s/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?s?v?s/

Etymology 1

From Middle English servise, from Old French servise (French service), from the verb servir, from Latin servitium (compare Portuguese serviço, Italian servizio, Norman sèrvice, Spanish servicio), from servus (“servant; serf; slave”). Displaced native Old English þe?nung.

Noun

service (countable and uncountable, plural services)

1. An act of being of assistance to someone.
2. (economics) The practice of providing such a service as economic activity.
3. A department in a company, an organization, a government department, etc.
4. (computing) A function that is provided by one program or machine for another.

5. The state of being subordinate to or employed by an individual or group

6. The military.

7. A set of dishes or utensils.
   • 1997, Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent, Monthly Review Press, page 36:

     When their lavish fiestas ended they threw the silver service and even golden vessels from their balconies to be picked up by lucky passersby.

8. (sports) The act of initially starting, or serving, the ball in play in tennis, volleyball, and other games.

9. A religious rite or ritual.

10. (law) The serving, or delivery, of a summons or writ.
    • 1668 July 3, James Dalrymple, “Thomas Rue contra Andrew Hou?toun” in The Deci?ions of the Lords of Council & Se??ion I (Edinburgh, 1683), page 548:

      He Su?pends on the?e Rea?ons, that Thomas Rue had granted a general Di?charge to Adam Mu?het, who was his Conjunct, and correus debendi, after the alleadged Service, which Di?charged Mu?het, and con?equently Houstoun his Partner.

11. (Israel, West Bank, also in Jordan, Lebanon and Syria) A taxi shared among unrelated passengers, each of whom pays part of the fare; often, it has a fixed route between cities.
12. A musical composition for use in churches.
13. (obsolete) Profession of respect; acknowledgment of duty owed.
14. (nautical) The materials used for serving a rope, etc., such as spun yarn and small lines.
15. Access to resources such as hotel rooms and web-based videos without transfer of the resources' ownership.

Usage notes

In British English, the indefinite article "a" is often used with “good service”, as in "A good service is operating on all London Underground lines", whereas this is not used in American English.

Antonyms

• (action or work that is produced and consumed): good
• capital

Derived terms

Related terms

• service à la française
• service à la russe

Translations

Verb

service (third-person singular simple present services, present participle servicing, simple past and past participle serviced)

1. (transitive) To serve.

2. (transitive) To perform maintenance.

3. (public relations, transitive) To supply (media outlets) with press releases etc.
   • 1977, Patricia Marshall, Citizen Participation Certification for Community Development (page 107)

     One obvious way is press releases, which should be sent to your region's reporters, editors and columnists, the wire services, professional publications. […] Servicing the media should be an everyday thing.

   • 1971, College and University Journal (volumes 10-11, page 9)

     […] instead of expending so much of their PR effort on servicing the media.

4. (transitive, agriculture, euphemistic) To inseminate through sexual intercourse.
5. (transitive, vulgar) To perform a sexual act upon.

6. (transitive, military, euphemistic) To attack.

   to service a target; target servicing

Synonyms

• (to serve): attend, wait on; See also Thesaurus:serve
• (to perform a sexual act): be with, go to bed with, sleep with; see also Thesaurus:copulate with

Descendants

• ? Dutch: service
  • ? Indonesian: servis
• ? German: Service
• ? Hindi: ?????? (sarvis)
• ? Hungarian: szerviz
• ? Japanese: ???? (s?bisu)
• ? Korean: ??? (seobiseu)
• ? Russian: ?????? (servis)
• ? Ukrainian: ?????? (servis)

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Etymology 2

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Noun

service (plural services)

2. Service tree.

Translations

Anagrams

• cerevis, scrieve

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English service.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ser?vice

Noun

service f or m (plural services)

1. service

French

Etymology

From Old French servise, borrowed from Latin servitium (compare Portuguese serviço, Italian servizio, Norman sèrvice, Spanish servicio), from servus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s??.vis/

Noun

service m (plural services)

1. service
2. (tennis) service
3. (Switzerland, in the plural) cutlery

Derived terms

Related terms

• servir
• servant
• serf

Interjection

service

1. (Switzerland) you're welcome

Further reading

• “service” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• écrives

Norman

Alternative forms

• sèrvice (Jersey)

Etymology

From Old French servise, (compare French service), borrowed from Latin servitium, from servus.

Noun

service m (plural services)

1. (Guernsey) service

Old French

Noun

service m (oblique plural services, nominative singular services, nominative plural service)

1. Alternative form of servise

Swedish

Pronunciation

Noun

service c

1. service, the level of comfort offered by assistants and servants (the opposite of self-service)
2. maintenance and repair

Declension

Related terms

See also

• servis
• tjänst