Aid
Word | AID |
Character | 3 |
Hyphenation | aid |
Pronunciations | /eɪd/ |
Definitions and meanings of "Aid"
What do we mean by aid?
To provide assistance, support, or relief to. intransitive verb
To provide assistance, support, or relief. intransitive verb
The act or result of helping; assistance. noun
Something that provides help, support, or relief, such as money or supplies. noun
Something, such as a device, that provides improvement. noun
An assistant or helper. noun
An aide or aide-de-camp. noun
A monetary payment to a feudal lord by a vassal in medieval England. noun
A deep gutter cut across plowed land. noun
A reach in a river. noun
In the navy, an officer on the staff of an admiral whose duties are similar to those of an aide-de-camp to a general. noun
Help; succor; support; assistance. noun
He who or that which aids or yields assistance; a helper; an auxiliary; an assistant: as, Coleridge's “Aids to Reflection.” noun
In feudal law, a customary payment made by a tenant or vassal to his lord, originally a voluntary gift; hence, in English history, applied to the forms of taxation employed by the crown between the Norman conquest and the fourteenth century. noun
An aide-de-camp: so called by abbreviation. noun
Plural In the manège, the helps by which a horseman contributes toward the motion or action required of a horse, as by a judicious use of the heel, leg, rein, or spur. noun
To help; assist; afford support or relief; promote the desire, purpose, or action of: as, to aid a person in his business, or an animal in its efforts; to aid a medicine in its operation.
To promote the course or accomplishment of; help in advancing or bringing about; forward; facilitate: as, to aid the recovery of a patient, or the operation of a machine; to aid one's designs.
Help; assistance; succor, relief.
A helper; an assistant.
Something which helps; a material source of help.
An historical subsidy granted to the crown by Parliament for an extraordinary purpose, such as a war effort.
An exchequer loan.
A pecuniary tribute paid by a vassal to his feudal lord on special occasions.
An aide-de-camp, so called by abbreviation.
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