Assist
[ə'sɪst]
Definition
(noun.) (sports) the act of enabling another player to make a good play.
(verb.) act as an assistant in a subordinate or supportive function.
Typed by Brian--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To give support to in some undertaking or effort, or in time of distress; to help; to aid; to succor.
(v. i.) To lend aid; to help.
(v. i.) To be present as a spectator; as, to assist at a public meeting.
Checker: Mitchell
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Help, aid, support, befriend, patronize, serve, speed, second, abet, back, sustain, co-operate with, take part with, give support to, minister to.[2]. Succor, relieve, SPELL.
Inputed by Heinrich
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Help, succor, aid, support, relieve, befriend, second, co-operate_with, back,benefit, further
ANT:Hinder, resist, oppose, antagonize, counteract, clog, prevent
Checker: Wayne
Definition
v.t. to help.—v.i. to be present at a ceremony: (Shak.) to accompany.—n. Assist′ance help: relief.—adj. Assist′ant helping or lending aid.—n. one who assists: a helper.
Editor: Madge
Examples
- He becomes careful to instruct them, and attentive to assist and relieve them. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- If they, too, proved unable to assist me, my resources for the present were at an end, and I might return to town. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- No one can carry around with him a museum of all the things whose properties will assist the conduct of thought. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Books with their wealth of entertainment and information would be sealed to a large part of mankind, if glasses did not assist weak eyes. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Seize him and strip him, slaves, said the knight, and let the fathers of his race assist him if they can. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- In connection with the cards, combers and strippers are used to assist in further cleaning and straightening the fibre, which is finally removed from the cards and the combs by the doffer. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Out of the question, sir,' remarked Sam Weller, coming to assist in the conference; 'it's a cruelty to animals, sir, to ask 'em to do it. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- An Alexandrian astronomer (Sosigenes) assisted in establishing the new (Julian) calendar. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Sam assisted him to rise. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- The Stryver clerk, who never assisted at these conferences, had gone home, and the Stryver principal opened the door. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- It was late in the evening when Mr. Pickwick and his companions, assisted by Sam, dismounted from the roof of the Eatanswill coach. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Assisted by a Persian convert, Muhammad had entrenched himself in Medina! H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Thus assisted, she skipped down with much agility, and began to tie her double chin into her bonnet. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- He assisted her to dismount, and, dismissing her guide, conducted her into the cottage. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Being the most polite of men, he seized the opportunity of assisting the Professor's anatomical amusements on the spot. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- We have had the vague consciousness of assisting at a great development whose evidences to-day on every hand attest its magnitude. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- That's a good move, too, said Mr. Bucket, assisting, a very good move. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Not yet, cried the other, concealing her terror, and assisting Marianne to lie down again, but she will be here, I hope, before it is long. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- During this whole time the whelp moved about with Mr. Bounderby like his shadow, assisting in all the proceedings. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Doubtless, said Mr. Bulstrode, with the usual steady look of his light-gray eyes; though that might reduce my power of assisting you. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- With a last faint effort, which would have been powerless but for my yielding to it and assisting it, he raised my hand to his lips. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- From whence does this proceed, but that the memory in the first case assists the fancy and gives an additional force and vigour to its conceptions? David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- This iron shell is put in place segmentally by means of a shield, an ingenious mechanism which both protects the work under construction and assists in the building of the iron shell. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- But I suppose Mrs. Thornton assists you in your marketing. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- They really concern us, and, consequently, any account of them which assists us in dealing with things at hand falls within personal experience. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Further, water assists in the removal of the daily bodily wastes, and thus rids the system of foul and poisonous substances. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- I see where the doubt lies, Mr. Hartright, and I promise you that it shall be set at rest, whether Anne Catherick assists us to-morrow or not. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- The Houyhnhnm, his master, assists in teaching him. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
Edited by Denny