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