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• serve the purpose — index satisfy (fulfill) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

• serve the purpose — do the job, accomplish the task    If you don t have an organ, a piano will serve the purpose …   English idioms

• The Seven Liberal Arts —     The Seven Liberal Arts     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► The Seven Liberal Arts     The expression artes liberales, chiefly used during the Middle Ages, does not mean arts as we understand the word at this present day, but those branches of… …   Catholic encyclopedia

• The War of the Jewels — is the 11th volume of Christopher Tolkien s series The History of Middle earth , analyzing the unpublished manuscripts of his father J. R. R. Tolkien.It is the second of two volumes Morgoth s Ring being the first to explore the later 1951… …   Wikipedia

• The East is Blue — is an essay by Salman Rushdie about the subversive potential of pornography in Asia and the Muslim world. It was published in 2004 in Timothy Greenfield Sanders book XXX: 30 Porn Star Photographs (ISBN 0 8212 7754 5).Rushdie argues that the… …   Wikipedia

• purpose — noun 1 aim/function ADJECTIVE ▪ limited ▪ chief, main, primary, prime, principal ▪ true ▪ …   Collocations dictionary

• serve — 1 verb 1 FOOD/DRINK (I, T) to give someone food or drink as part of a meal: What kind of wine should we serve? | serve sth with sth: Serve the dish with rice and a green salad. | serve sb: Why aren t you out there serving the guests? | serve sth… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• serve — v. & n. v. 1 tr. do a service for (a person, community, etc.). 2 tr. (also absol.) be a servant to. 3 intr. carry out duties (served on six committees). 4 intr. a (foll. by in) be employed in (an organization, esp. the armed forces, or a place,… …   Useful english dictionary

• serve — serve1 W1S1 [sə:v US sə:rv] v ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(food/drink)¦ 2 serve two/three/four etc (people) 3¦(shop)¦ 4¦(be useful/helpful)¦ 5¦(do useful work)¦ 6¦(have an effect)¦ 7¦(provide something)¦ 8¦(prison)¦ 9¦(sport)¦ 10 it …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• serve — v 1. wait on or upon, wait on hand and foot, attend, minister to, care for, give service, be at [s.o. s] beck and call; wait on table, waitress, cocktail waitress, give food and drink; offer refreshments, pass out or come around with refreshments …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

• serve — Synonyms and related words: accommodate, accord, act, act as, act for, administer, administer to, advance, advantage, afford, allot, allow, answer, answer for, assist, attend, attend on, attend to, avail, award, ball, be OK, be correct, be equal… …   Moby Thesaurus