adjunct, assistant
(adjective) of or relating to a person who is subordinate to another
assistant, helper, help, supporter
(noun) a person who contributes to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose; “my invaluable assistant”; “they hired additional help to finish the work”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
assistant (not comparable) (attributive)
Having a subordinate or auxiliary position.
Helping; lending aid or support; auxiliary.
assistant (plural assistants)
(obsolete) Someone who is present; a bystander, a witness.
A person who assists or helps someone else.
(British) Sales assistant.
A software tool that provides assistance in some task, a wizard program.
Synonym: wizard
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Source: Wiktionary
As*sist"ant, a. Etym: [Cf. F. assistant, p. pr. of assister.]
1. Helping; lending aid or support; auxiliary. Genius and learning . . . are mutually and greatly assistant to each other. Beattie.
2. (Mil.)
Definition: Of the second grade in the staff of the army; as, an assistant surgeon. [U.S.]
Note: In the English army it designates the third grade in any particular branch of the staff. Farrow.
As*sist"ant, n.
1. One who, or that which, assists; a helper; an auxiliary; a means of help. Four assistants who his labor share. Pope. Rhymes merely as assistants to memory. Mrs. Chapone.
2. An attendant; one who is present. Dryden.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
1 June 2024
(noun) a night flight from which the passengers emerge with eyes red from lack of sleep; “he took the redeye in order to get home the next morning”
The Boston Tea Party helped popularize coffee in America. The hefty tea tax imposed on the colonies in 1773 resulted in America switching from tea to coffee. In the lead up to the Revolutionary War, it became patriotic to sip java instead of tea. The Civil War made the drink more pervasive. Coffee helped energize tired troops, and drinking it became an expression of freedom.
