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bedienen — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • await verb To wait for something or someone, often with a sense of expectation.
  • handle noun The part of an object that is designed to be gripped by hand.
  • operate verb To work or run, especially a machine or system.
  • serve verb To provide help, food, or a service to someone.
  • service noun Work done to help or benefit someone, or the act of providing this.
  • wait noun A period spent staying where you are, or delaying action, until something happens.

Senses

bedienen is used for these senses in English:

  • be my guest (idiomatic) Do as you wish; go ahead; help yourself; go for it!
  • follow suit (cards) To play a card of the same suit as the previous or leading card.
  • handle (transitive) To manage, use, or wield with the hands.
  • operate (medicine, transitive, or, intransitive) To perform some manual act upon a human body in a methodical manner, and usually with instruments, with a view to restore soundness or health, as in amputation, lithotomy, etc.
  • serve (transitive) To be a servant for; to work for, to be employed by. [from 13th c.]
  • serve (transitive) To set down (food or drink) on the table to be eaten; to bring (food, drink) to a person. [from 15th c.]
  • service (transitive) To serve.
  • wait (intransitive, stative, US) To wait tables; to serve customers in a restaurant or other eating establishment.

handle — full definition

  1. noun The part of an object that is designed to be gripped by hand.
  2. noun A username or nickname someone uses online or over radio.
  3. verb To touch, hold, or manage something with the hands.
  4. verb To deal with or cope with a situation, person, or emotion.

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