• v.
    ⦿serve a purpose, role, or function
    lexical concept
  • His freedom served him well
  • The female students served as a control group
  • The table functions as a desk
  • The tree stump serves as a table
  • This table would serve very well

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Lexical context

wn:part of speechverb
lexinfo:part of speechverb
ontolex:lexicalized sense
  1. enl:function
  2. enl:serve
wn:interlingual indexili:i35018

Other

skos:is in schemeOpen English WordNet
rdfs:labelfunctionserve