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Serve

Serve meaning

An act of putting the ball or shuttlecock in play in various games. | A portion of food or drink, a serving. | An impressive presentation (especially of a person's appearance).

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The server may employ different types of serve including flat serve, topspin serve, slice serve, and kick (American twist) serve.

This is commonly referred to as "serve to play", "rally to serve", "play for serve", or "volley for serve".) Service and return In game play, the player serving the ball commences a play.

Usually, the server is allowed two opportunities (called first serve and second serve) to put the ball into play (two serve rule), although elite level competitions often allow the server only one opportunity (one serve rule).

I will continue to serve and do what is needed and be open and honest with those I serve with and with those I serve for our Keizer community deserves this.

Choosing to serve, or not serve, specific audiences is a critical strategic decision every business has to make, but it's hard to take ' grand ambitions seriously if they don't find value in *continuing* to serve ~58 million Spanish speakers in the US.

During the special meeting the commission voted Jon Fitzgerald to serve as chair, Jonathan Mace to serve as vice chair, and Michele Roalf to serve as secretary.

Williams also struggled with her serve, specifically her second serve, winning only 35% of her second serve points.

Williams responds with a backhand winner, her biggest serve of the match but then can't get a first serve in. Goerges smashes back a return and we are back on serve at 5-4!

They could not serve consecutive terms; a member could serve a second term only by allowing someone else to serve a single intervening term in office.

When the serving side loses a rally, the serve immediately passes to their opponent(s) (this differs from the old system where sometimes the serve passes to the doubles partner for what is known as a "second serve").

Young, unproven men would serve in the first line, older men with some military experience would serve in the second line, and veteran troops of advanced age and experience would serve in the third line.

A fourth chance to take Djokovic’s serve went begging in the fourth game – where the Serb was docked a point for hindrance, judged by British umpire Richard Haigh to have disturbed Sinner with a long grunt, and then warned for taking too long to serve.

Australians do steal at self-serve checkouts, new data shows, with more than 1.3 million people (five per cent of the population) admitting to stealing items at supermarket self-serve checkouts during the past year.

Bauchi state governor, Bala Mohammed has said categorically that he is not in the governance of Bauchi to accumulated wealth but rather to serve the people of the state on the mandate he was elected to serve.

By statute, the default for judges is to allow defendants to serve their sentences simultaneously — which courts call “concurrently” — which effectively means they serve only the longest sentence imposed.

Chung was never able to even get to deuce on the Murray serve and found himself broken again so the second seed could serve for it.

Having broken to lead 5-3, Tsitsipas played a poor game to drop serve and was then briefly in trouble at 5-5 after double-faulting when a second time violation resulted in him forfeiting a first serve.

He said it must show any restrictions are “necessary to serve a compelling government interest” and “narrowly tailored to serve that interest” and that authorities could not have achieved the same goal with fewer restrictions.

He said the P250 million worth of building will also serve as a site for activities and will serve as a training center for aspiring NBI agents.

He would consolidate the structures that would best serve his political agenda than those that will serve the best interest of South Africa.