aid definition
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This page has 15 definitions of aid in English, Bau, and Võro. Aid is a noun and verb. Examples of how to use aid in a sentence are shown. Also define these 0 related words and terms: .
English aid definition
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Middle English aide, eide, ayde, from Old French eide, aide, from aidier, from Latin adiūtō, adiūtāre (“to assist, help”). Cognates include Spanish ayuda, Portuguese ajuda and Italian aiuto.
Alternative forms
Noun
aid (countable and uncountable, plural aids)
- (uncountable) Help; assistance; succor, relief.
- He came to my aid when I was foundering.
- 1827, Henry Hallam, The Constitutional History of England from the Accession of Henry VII. to the Death of George II. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: John Murray, […], OCLC 156165476:
- An unconstitutional method of obtaining aid.
- 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, OCLC 639762314:
- “[…] it is not fair of you to bring against mankind double weapons ! Dangerous enough you are as woman alone, without bringing to your aid those gifts of mind suited to problems which men have been accustomed to arrogate to themselves.”
- (countable) A helper; an assistant.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Tobit 8:6:
- It is not good that man should bee alone, let vs make vnto him an aide like to himselfe.
- (countable) Something which helps; a material source of help.
- 1983, Richard Ellis, The Book of Sharks, Knopf, →ISBN, page 16:
- The human is so poorly designed for aquatic adventures that he cannot even see in the water without artificial aids.
- 2013 September-October, Henry Petroski, “The Evolution of Eyeglasses”, in American Scientist:
- The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone […]. Scribes, illuminators, and scholars held such stones directly over manuscript pages as an aid in seeing what was being written, drawn, or read.
- Slimming aids include dietary supplements and appetite suppressants.
- (countable, Britain) An historical subsidy granted to the crown by Parliament for an extraordinary purpose, such as a war effort.
- 2019, Julia Boffey, Henry VII's London in the Great Chronicle (page 71)
- In this parliament was granted to the king for defence against the Scots two aids and two quindecims, the which two aids did not extend over two quindecims.
- 2019, Julia Boffey, Henry VII's London in the Great Chronicle (page 71)
- (countable, Britain) An exchequer loan.
- (countable, law) A pecuniary tribute paid by a vassal to his feudal lord on special occasions.
- (countable) Alternative form of aide (“an aide-de-camp”)
- Robert Michael Wills, They Came from the Drain (page 206)
- Suddenly, the general's aid entered the room and walked in a straight line, coming to a halt in front of the desk, standing at attention, waiting for the general to recognize him, allowing the aid to speak.
- Robert Michael Wills, They Came from the Drain (page 206)
- (countable, chiefly in the plural, horse racing) The rider's use of hands, legs, voice, etc. to control the horse.
Derived terms
- aid climbing
- aid-de-camp
- aid dog
- aidful
- aidless
- aid-major
- aidman
- aid package
- aid station
- aid worker
- band-aid
- buoyancy aid
- come to someone's aid
- deaf aid
- development aid
- first aid
- grant-in-aid
- hearing aid
- impact aid
- in aid of
- job aid
- kool-aid
- legal aid
- marital aid
- mutual aid
- penetration aid
- pray in aid
- rinse aid
- sex aid
- state aid
- teaching aid
- visual aid
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Etymology 2
From Middle English aiden, from Old French eider, aider, aidier, from Latin adiuto, frequentative of adiuvō (“assist”, verb).
Verb
aid (third-person singular simple present aids, present participle aiding, simple past and past participle aided)
- (transitive) To provide support to; to further the progress of; to help; to assist.
- 1591, William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act V, scene iii]:
- You speedy helpers […] Appear and aid me in this enterprise.
- 2012 May 24, Nathan Rabin, “Film: Reviews: Men In Black 3”, in The Onion AV Club[1]:
- Smith is aided in his quest by an elfin, time-jumping alien with psychic powers played by another Coen brothers veteran, A Serious Man star Michael Stuhlbarg.
- (climbing) To climb with the use of aids such as pitons.
- 1979, American Alpine Journal (page 193)
- Rather than climb into a bottomless off-width crack, we aided an 80-foot A2 to A3 crack to the top of a pedestal. By very tenuous face climbing, we gained entry to the crack, which we followed to a tree beneath the big chimney.
- 1979, American Alpine Journal (page 193)
Synonyms
- assist
- befriend
- bestand
- cooperate
- help
- promote
- relieve
- succor
- support
- sustain
- See also Thesaurus:help or Thesaurus:serve
Derived terms
Related terms
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Anagrams
Azerbaijani aid definition
Etymology
Pronunciation
Postposition
aid + dative
- related to, relating to, having to do with
- concerning, about
Related terms
- aidiyyət
References
- “aid” in Obastan.com.
Bau aid definition
Noun
aid
Further reading
- Hans van der Meer, Bau Organized Phonology Data
Ludian aid definition
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *aita.
Noun
aid
Panim aid definition
Pronunciation
Noun
aid
Further reading
Veps aid definition
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *aita.
Noun
aid
Inflection
Inflection of aid | |||
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nominative sing. | aid | ||
genitive sing. | aidan | ||
partitive sing. | aidad | ||
partitive plur. | aidoid | ||
singular | plural | ||
nominative | aid | aidad | |
accusative | aidan | aidad | |
genitive | aidan | aidoiden | |
partitive | aidad | aidoid | |
essive-instructive | aidan | aidoin | |
translative | aidaks | aidoikš | |
inessive | aidas | aidoiš | |
elative | aidaspäi | aidoišpäi | |
illative | ? | aidoihe | |
adessive | aidal | aidoil | |
ablative | aidalpäi | aidoilpäi | |
allative | aidale | aidoile | |
abessive | aidata | aidoita | |
comitative | aidanke | aidoidenke | |
prolative | aidadme | aidoidme | |
approximative I | aidanno | aidoidenno | |
approximative II | aidannoks | aidoidennoks | |
egressive | aidannopäi | aidoidennopäi | |
terminative I | ? | aidoihesai | |
terminative II | aidalesai | aidoilesai | |
terminative III | aidassai | — | |
additive I | ? | aidoihepäi | |
additive II | aidalepäi | aidoilepäi |
Derived terms
- aidverai
References
- Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007), “забор, изгородь, ограда”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika
Võro aid definition
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *aita.
Noun
aid (genitive aia, partitive aida)
Inflection
singular | plural | |
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nominative | aid | aiaq |
accusative | aia | aiaq |
genitive | aia | aido |
partitive | aida | aido |
illative | aida | aido aidohe |
inessive | aian aiahn |
aion aiohn |
elative | aiast | aiost |
allative | aialõ | aiolõ |
adessive | aial | aiol |
ablative | aialt | aiolt |
translative | aias | aios |
terminative | aianiq | aioniq |
abessive | aialdaq | aioldaq |
comitative | aiagaq | aidogaq |