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Webster 1913 Edition
Aid
Aid
,Verb.
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 coöperation to effect a purpose, or to prevent or to remove evil; to help; to assist.
You speedy helpers . . .
Appear and
Appear and
aid
me in this enterprise. Shakespeare
Syn. – To help; assist; support; sustain; succor; relieve; befriend; coöperate; promote. See
Help
. 1.
Help; succor; assistance; relief.
An unconstitutional mode of obtaining
aid
. Hallam.
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. Tobit viii. 6.
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.
Webster 1828 Edition
Aid
AID
,Verb.
T.
To help; to assist; to support, either by furnishing strength or means to effect a purpose, or to prevent or remove evil.
AID
,Noun.
1.
Help; succor; support; assistance.2.
The person who aids or yields support; a helper; an auxiliary; also the thing that aids or yields succor.3.
In English law, a subsidy or tax granted by parliament, and making a part of the king's revenue.In France, aids are equivalent to customs, or duties on imports and exports.
4.
In England, a tax paid by a tenant to his lord; originally a mere gift, which afterwards became a right demandable by the lord. the aids of this king were chiefly three.1.
To ransom the lord when a prisoner.2.
To make the lord's eldest son a knight. 3.
To marry the lord's eldest daughter.5.
An aiddecamp, so called by abbreviation.6.
To pray in aid, in law, is to call in a person interested in a title, to assist in defending it. Thus a tenant for life may pray in the aid of him in remainder or reversion; that is, he may pray or petition that he may be joined in the suit to aid or help maintain the title. This act or petition is called aid-prayer.Court of aids, in France, is a court which has cognizance of causes respecting duties or customs.
Definition 2024
aid
aid
English
Noun
aid (countable and uncountable, plural aids)
- (uncountable) Help; assistance; succor, relief.
- He came to my aid when I was foundering.
- Henry Hallam (1777-1859)
- An unconstitutional mode of obtaining aid.
- 1915, Emerson Hough, The Purchase Price, chapterI:
- “[…] 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.
- Tobit viii. 6
- It is not good that man should be alone; let us make unto him an aid like unto himself.
- Tobit viii. 6
- (countable) Something which helps; a material source of help.
- Slimming aids include dietary supplements and appetite suppressants.
- 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.
- (countable, Britain) An historical subsidy granted to the crown by Parliament for an extraordinary purpose, such as a war effort.
- (countable, Britain) An exchequer loan.
- (countable, law) A pecuniary tribute paid by a vassal to his feudal lord on special occasions.
- (countable) An aide-de-camp, so called by abbreviation.
- The incompetent general's brilliant aid often made priceless suggestions.
Derived terms
Translations
help; succor; assistance; relief
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a person that promotes or helps in something being done; a helper
something which helps; a material source of help
Exchequer loan
aide-de-camp — see aide-de-camp
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 (give) support (to); to further the progress of; to help; to assist.
- Shakespeare
- You speedy helpers […] Appear and aid me in this enterprise.
- Shakespeare
Synonyms
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
to support
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Anagrams
Veps
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *aita.
Noun
aid
Inflection
| Inflection of aid | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 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
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *aita.
Noun
aid (genitive aia, partitive aida)
Inflection
Inflection of aid
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |