aid

[Aid]

Aid is what you do when you help someone you come to their aid. Rich countries provide economic aid to poor countries, and if you cut your hand, you'll be looking in the first aid kit for a Band Aid.

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To support, either by furnishing strength or means in co'94peration to effect a purpose, or to prevent or to remove evil; to help; to assist.

Noun
the work of caring for or attending to someone or something; "no medical care was required"; "the old car needed constant attention"

Noun
the activity of contributing to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose; "he gave me an assist with the housework"; "could not walk without assistance"; "rescue party went to their aid"; "offered his help in unloading"

Noun
a resource; "visual aids in teaching"; "economic assistance to depressed areas"

Noun
a gift of money to support a worthy person or cause

Verb
improve the condition of; "These pills will help the patient"

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Verb
give help or assistance; be of service; "Everyone helped out during the earthquake"; "Can you help me carry this table?"; "She never helps around the house"


v. t.
To support, either by furnishing strength or means in cooperation to effect a purpose, or to prevent or to remove evil; to help; to assist.

v. t.
Help; succor; assistance; relief.

v. t.
The person or thing that promotes or helps in something done; a helper; an assistant.

v. t.
A subsidy granted to the king by Parliament; also, an exchequer loan.

v. t.
A pecuniary tribute paid by a vassal to his lord on special occasions.

v. t.
An aid-de-camp, so called by abbreviation; as, a general's aid.


Aid

Aid , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Aided ; p. pr. & vb. n. Aiding.] [F. aider, OF. aidier, fr. L. adjutare to help, freq. of adjuvare to help; ad + juvare to help. Cf. Adjutant.] To support, either by furnishing strength or means in co'94peration to effect a purpose, or to prevent or to remove evil; to help; to assist.
You speedy helpers . . . Appear and aid me in this enterprise.
Syn. -- To help; assist; support; sustain; succor; relieve; befriend; co'94perate; promote. See Help.

Aid

Aid, n. [F. aide, OF. a'8bde, a'8be, fr. the verb. See Aid, v. t.] 1. Help; succor; assistance; relief.
An unconstitutional mode of obtaining aid.
2. The person or thing that promotes or helps in something done; a helper; an assistant.
It is not good that man should be alone; let us make unto him an aid like unto himself.
3. (Eng. Hist.) A subsidy granted to the king by Parliament; also, an exchequer loan. 4. (Feudal Law) A pecuniary tribute paid by a vassal to his lord on special occasions. Blackstone. 5. An aid-de-camp, so called by abbreviation; as, a general's aid. Aid prayer (Law), a proceeding by which a defendant beseeches and claims assistance from some one who has a further or more permanent interest in the matter in suit. -- To pray in aid, to beseech and claim such assistance.

To support, either by furnishing strength or means in co'94peration to effect a purpose, or to prevent or to remove evil; to help; to assist.

Help; succor; assistance; relief.

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Usage Examples

It was amazing and inspiring to see so many people come together through music to aid the great state of Vermont.

It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful aid in the pursuit of fortune but the art of being bored is infinitely more successful.

Foreign aid is neither a failure nor a panacea. It is, instead, an important tool of American policy that can serve the interests of the United States and the world if wisely administered.

At the time when this famous historical battle was fought in Kosovo, the people were looking at the stars, expecting aid from them. Now, six centuries later, they are looking at the stars again, waiting to conquer them.

Italy even in the future will not need aid from the European Financial Stability Fund.

Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.

The belief that recipients of government aid are better off the more we spend on them is remarkably persistent. No matter how many times this central tenet of liberalism gets debunked, like Brett Favre, it just keeps coming back.

All that a good government aims at... is to add no unnecessary and artificial aid to the force of its own unavoidable consequences, and to abstain from fortifying and accumulating social inequality as a means of increasing political inequalities.

Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

Keeping books on social aid is capitalistic nonsense. I just use the money for the poor. I can't stop to count it.

I mean enormous pressure was brought to bear - Valerie Amos, Lady Amos, went round Africa with people from our intelligence services trying to press them. I had to make sure that we didn't promise a misuse of aid in a way that would be illegal.

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

I know there is a Supreme Being who rules the affairs of men and whose goodness and mercy have always followed the American people, and I know He will not turn from us now if we humbly and reverently seek His powerful aid.

I've been keeping a diary for thirty-three years and write in it every morning. Most of it's just whining, but every so often there'll be something I can use later: a joke, a description, a quote. It's an invaluable aid when it comes to winning arguments. 'That's not what you said on February 3, 1996,' I'll say to someone.

In a few days an officer came to our camp, under a flag of truce, and informed Hamilton, then a captain of artillery, but afterwards the aid of General Washington, that Captain Hale had been arrested within the British lines condemned as a spy, and executed that morning.

Abortion politics have distracted all sides from what is really essential: a major aid campaign to improve midwifery, prenatal care and emergency obstetric services in poor countries.

In course of time, religion came with its rites invoking the aid of good spirits which were even more powerful than the bad spirits, and thus for the time being tempered the agony of fears.

I dislike literary jargon and never use it. Criticism has only one function and that is to help readers read and understand literature. It is not a science, it is an aid to art.

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