Running and Serving

Running

Running adjective - Being in effective operation.

Usage example: the car has been running for almost an entire day

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Serving and running are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Serving" instead an adjective "Running".

Nearby Words: run, runner

Serving noun - The act of delivering a writ or summons upon someone.

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Running and serving are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Running" instead an adjective "Serving".

Nearby Words: serve, service, servicing, servant, served

good	good running	good serving
normal	normal running	normal serving
single	single running	single serving
actual	actual running	actual serving
Other adjectives: bad, daily, general, former, extra, retired, last, comic, longest.

When she goes berserk in Serenity she uses a serving tray and a glass bottle (kicked across the room into the head of someone running across the room) as weapons.

Source: Improvised Weapon / Live-Action TV
The Oc-servs, Fal-swos, and Xe-doms running around the landscape of Mira are not creations of the Ganglion, but something they dug up on the planet and reprogrammed into serving them.

Source: Ambiguous Robots
Running Gag: Miranda Tate being "quite lovely." Just like before, Alfred serving breakfast in bed to Bruce, only to find out that he's gone to his Batcave.

Source: Film / The Dark Knight Rises

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