HELP

aid, assist, assistance, help

(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”

avail, help, service

(noun) a means of serving; “of no avail”; “there’s no help for it”

aid, assistance, help

(noun) a person or thing that is a resource that helps make something easier or possible to do; “visual aids in teaching”; “his job was to give technical assistance over the phone”

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”

help, aid

(verb) improve the condition of; “These pills will help the patient”

serve, help

(verb) help to some food; help with food or drink; “I served him three times, and after that he helped himself”

avail, help

(verb) take or use; “She helped herself to some of the office supplies”

help, assist, aid

(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”

help, facilitate

(verb) be of use; “This will help to prevent accidents”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology 1

Noun

help (usually uncountable, plural helps)

(uncountable) Action given to provide assistance; aid.

(usually, uncountable) Something or someone which provides assistance with a task.

Documentation provided with computer software, etc. and accessed using the computer.

(usually, uncountable) One or more people employed to help in the maintenance of a house or the operation of a farm or enterprise.

(uncountable) Correction of deficits, as by psychological counseling or medication or social support or remedial training.

Usage notes

• The sense “people employed to help in the maintenance of a house” is usually an uncountable mass noun. A countable form - “a hired help”, “two hired helps” - is attested, but now less common.

Synonyms

• (action given to provide assistance): aid, assistance

Etymology 2

Verb

help (third-person singular simple present helps, present participle helping, simple past (archaic) holp or helped, past participle (archaic) holpen or helped)

(transitive) To provide assistance to (someone or something).

(transitive) To assist (a person) in getting something, especially food or drink at table; used with to.

(transitive) To contribute in some way to.

(intransitive) To provide assistance.

(transitive) To avoid; to prevent; to refrain from; to restrain (oneself). Usually used in nonassertive contexts with can.

Usage notes

• Use 4 is often used in the imperative mood as a call for assistance.

• In uses 1, 2, 3 and 4, this is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive. It can also take the bare infinitive with no change in meaning.

• In use 5, can't help is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (-ing) or, with but, the bare infinitive.

• For more information, see English catenative verbs

Synonyms

• (provide assistance to): aid, assist, come to the aid of, help out; See also help

• (contribute in some way to): contribute to

• (provide assistance): assist; See also assist

Interjection

help!

A cry of distress or an urgent request for assistance

Noun

HELP (uncountable)

Initialism of heat escape lessening position: a crouching position with the knees held close to the chest, used to conserve body heat in cold water.

Source: Wiktionary

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Help, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Helped (Obs. imp. Holp (, p. p. Holpen (; p. pr. & vb. n. Helping.] Etym: [AS. helpan; akin to OS. helpan, D. helpen, G. helfen, OHG. helfan, Icel. hjalpa, Sw. hjelpa, Dan. hielpe, Goth. hilpan; cf. Lith. szelpti, and Skr. klp to be fitting.]

1. To furnish with strength or means for the successful performance of any action or the attainment of any object; to aid; to assist; as, to help a man in his work; to help one to remember; -- the following infinitive is commonly used without to; as, "Help me scale yon balcony." Longfellow.

2. To furnish with the means of deliverance from trouble; as, to help one in distress; to help one out of prison. "God help, poor souls, how idly do they talk!" Shak.

3. To furnish with relief, as in pain or disease; to be of avail against; -- sometimes with of before a word designating the pain or disease, and sometimes having such a word for the direct object. "To help him of his blindness." in is used for that function; -- "to help him in his misery" Shak. The true calamus helps coughs. Gerarde.

4. To change for the better; to remedy. Cease to lament for what thou canst not help. Shak.

5. To prevent; to hinder; as, the evil approaches, and who can help it Swift.

6. To forbear; to avoid. I can not help remarking the resemblance betwixt him and our author. Pope.

7. To wait upon, as the guests at table, by carving and passing food. To help forward, to assist in advancing.

– To help off, to help to go or pass away, as time; to assist in removing. Locke.

– To help on, to forward; to promote by aid.

– To help out, to aid, as in delivering from a difficulty, or to aid in completing a design or task. The god of learning and of light Would want a god himself to help him out. Swift.

– To help over, to enable to surmount; as, to help one over an obstacle.

– To help to, to supply with; to furnish with; as, to help one to soup.

– To help up, to help (one) to get up; to assist in rising, as after a fall, and the like. "A man is well holp up that trusts to you." Shak.

Syn.

– To aid; assist; succor; relieve; serve; support; sustain; befriend.

– To Help, Aid, Assist. These words all agree in the idea of affording relief or support to a person under difficulties. Help turns attention especially to the source of relief. If I fall into a pit, I call for help; and he who helps me out does it by an act of his own. Aid turns attention to the other side, and supposes coöperation on the part of him who is relieved; as, he aided me in getting out of the pit; I got out by the aid of a ladder which he brought. Assist has a primary reference to relief afforded by a person who "stands by" in order to relieve. It denotes both help and aid. Thus, we say of a person who is weak, I assisted him upstairs, or, he mounted the stairs by my assistance. When help is used as a noun, it points less distinctively and exclusively to the source of relief, or, in other words, agrees more closely with aid. Thus we say, I got out of a pit by the help of my friend.

Help, v. i.

Definition: To lend aid or assistance; to contribute strength or means; to avail or be of use; to assist. A generous present helps to persuade, as well as an agreeable person. Garth. To help out, to lend aid; to bring a supply.

Help, n. Etym: [AS. help; akin to D. hulp, G. hülfe, hilfe, Icel. hjalp, Sw. hjelp, Dan. hielp. See Help, v. t.]

1. Strength or means furnished toward promoting an object, or deliverance from difficulty or distress; aid; ^; also, the person or thing furnishing the aid; as, he gave me a help of fifty dollars. Give us help from trouble, for vain is the help of man. Ps. lx. 11. God is . . . a very present help in trouble. Ps. xlvi. 1. Virtue is a friend and a help to nature. South.

2. Remedy; relief; as, there is no help for it.

3. A helper; one hired to help another; also, thew hole force of hired helpers in any business.

4. Specifically, a domestic servant, man or woman. [Local, U. S.]

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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