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Service can be a verb or a noun.

service used as a verb:

  1. To serve.
    "They service the customer base."
  2. To perform maintenance.
    "He is going to service the car."
  3. To perform a sexual act.
    "He was going to service her."

Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →

service used as a noun:

  1. An event in which an entity takes the responsibility that something desirable happens on the behalf of another entity.
  2. Action or work that is produced, then traded, bought or sold, then finally consumed.
    "Hair care is a service industry."
  3. A function that is provided by one program or machine for another.
    "This machine provides the name service for the LAN."
  4. The military.
    "I did three years in the service before coming here."
  5. A set of dishes or utensils.
    "She brought out the silver tea service."
  6. The act of initially starting, or serving, the ball in play in tennis, volleyball, and other games.
    "The player had four service faults in the set."
  7. A religious rite or ritual.
    "The funeral service was touching."
  8. The serving, or delivery, of a summons or writ.
    "The service happened yesterday."
  9. (public service) that which is provided by the government or its agents
    "The Job Centre provides a service to the unemployed."
  10. Doing something for someone else without thought of reward or payment.

Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →

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What type of word is service?

As detailed above, 'service' can be a verb or a noun. Here are some examples of its usage:
  1. Verb usage: They service the customer base.
  2. Verb usage: He is going to service the car.
  3. Verb usage: He was going to service her.
  4. Noun usage: Hair care is a service industry.
  5. Noun usage: This machine provides the name service for the LAN.
  6. Noun usage: I did three years in the service before coming here.
  7. Noun usage: She brought out the silver tea service.
  8. Noun usage: The player had four service faults in the set.
  9. Noun usage: The funeral service was touching.
  10. Noun usage: The service happened yesterday.
  11. Noun usage: The Job Centre provides a service to the unemployed.

Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of service are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of service, and guess at its most common usage.

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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.

The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.

Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.

Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.

Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).

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