"serve up" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "serves up",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "serving up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "served up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "served up",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "serve up (third-person singular simple present serves up, present participle serving up, simple past and past participle served up)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1842, Gibbons Merle, John Reitch, The Domestic Dictionary and Housekeeper's Manual, page 87",
          "text": "let these remain upon a slow fire until they are well set, then break over them seven or eight eggs, as for poaching, and add salt and pepper; cook gently until the yolks are set, but not hard, brown with a salamander, and serve up.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To present (food or drink) to those who will consume it; to serve."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "serve",
          "serve"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To present (food or drink) to those who will consume it; to serve."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2009, Bryan O'Sullivan, Mercurial: The Definitive Guide, page 85",
          "text": "Run hg serve inside a repository, and in under a second it will bring up a specialized HTTP server; this will accept connections from any client, and serve up data for that repository until you terminate it.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2005, Nicole Beland, Girls Seek Bliss: Zen and the Art of Modern Life Maintenance",
          "text": "It's inevitable that anything that provides us with such incredible amounts of pleasure and satisfaction is bound to serve up an equal amount of stress.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To provide; deliver."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "provide",
          "provide"
        ],
        [
          "deliver",
          "deliver"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, idiomatic) To provide; deliver."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Sports",
          "orig": "en:Sports",
          "parents": [
            "Human activity",
            "Human behaviour",
            "Human",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "13 15 72",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "19 17 64",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English phrasal verbs with particle (up)",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1946 September 13, Lee A Gould, “Princeton 17, Pennsylvania 14”, in Princeton Alumni Weekly, volume 47",
          "text": "West served up another fungo pass which Ulrichs flagrantly stole from Minisi on the 4.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, Bryan Tsao, Carolina Bolado, Joe Distelheim, The Hardball Times Baseball Annual 2008, page 172",
          "text": "Livan Hernandez each allowed a major league-high 34 home runs; they were among the 605 different pitchers who served up long balls in 2007.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012 April 18, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 1-0 Barcelona”, in BBC Sport",
          "text": "Messi was caught in possession by Frank Lampard, who released Ramires, and the reliable Brazilian served up the perfect cross for Drogba to sweep a left-footed finish past Barcelona goalkeeper Victor Valdes.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To pitch, throw, serve, or kick a ball to an opponent so that it is easily hit or intercepted."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "sports",
          "sports"
        ],
        [
          "pitch",
          "pitch"
        ],
        [
          "throw",
          "throw"
        ],
        [
          "serve",
          "serve"
        ],
        [
          "kick",
          "kick"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, sports) To pitch, throw, serve, or kick a ball to an opponent so that it is easily hit or intercepted."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "hobbies",
        "lifestyle",
        "sports"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/56/En-au-serve_up.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "serve up"
}

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  "categories": [
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English phrasal verbs",
    "English phrasal verbs with particle (up)",
    "English terms with audio links",
    "English verbs"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "serves up",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "serving up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "served up",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "served up",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1842, Gibbons Merle, John Reitch, The Domestic Dictionary and Housekeeper's Manual, page 87",
          "text": "let these remain upon a slow fire until they are well set, then break over them seven or eight eggs, as for poaching, and add salt and pepper; cook gently until the yolks are set, but not hard, brown with a salamander, and serve up.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        "To present (food or drink) to those who will consume it; to serve."
      ],
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        [
          "serve",
          "serve"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To present (food or drink) to those who will consume it; to serve."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English idioms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2009, Bryan O'Sullivan, Mercurial: The Definitive Guide, page 85",
          "text": "Run hg serve inside a repository, and in under a second it will bring up a specialized HTTP server; this will accept connections from any client, and serve up data for that repository until you terminate it.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2005, Nicole Beland, Girls Seek Bliss: Zen and the Art of Modern Life Maintenance",
          "text": "It's inevitable that anything that provides us with such incredible amounts of pleasure and satisfaction is bound to serve up an equal amount of stress.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To provide; deliver."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "provide",
          "provide"
        ],
        [
          "deliver",
          "deliver"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, idiomatic) To provide; deliver."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "en:Sports"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1946 September 13, Lee A Gould, “Princeton 17, Pennsylvania 14”, in Princeton Alumni Weekly, volume 47",
          "text": "West served up another fungo pass which Ulrichs flagrantly stole from Minisi on the 4.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, Bryan Tsao, Carolina Bolado, Joe Distelheim, The Hardball Times Baseball Annual 2008, page 172",
          "text": "Livan Hernandez each allowed a major league-high 34 home runs; they were among the 605 different pitchers who served up long balls in 2007.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012 April 18, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 1-0 Barcelona”, in BBC Sport",
          "text": "Messi was caught in possession by Frank Lampard, who released Ramires, and the reliable Brazilian served up the perfect cross for Drogba to sweep a left-footed finish past Barcelona goalkeeper Victor Valdes.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To pitch, throw, serve, or kick a ball to an opponent so that it is easily hit or intercepted."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "sports",
          "sports"
        ],
        [
          "pitch",
          "pitch"
        ],
        [
          "throw",
          "throw"
        ],
        [
          "serve",
          "serve"
        ],
        [
          "kick",
          "kick"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, sports) To pitch, throw, serve, or kick a ball to an opponent so that it is easily hit or intercepted."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "hobbies",
        "lifestyle",
        "sports"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "serve up"
}