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Wiktionary - Recent changes [en]: help

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Jul 11th 2013, 01:52, by ReidAA

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# {{context|transitive|lang=en}} To provide [[assistance]] to (someone or something).

  

# {{context|transitive|lang=en}} To provide [[assistance]] to (someone or something).
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#: ''He '''helped''' his grandfather cook breakfast.''

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#*{{quote-magazine|date=2013-06-22|volume=407|issue=8841|page=76|magazine={{w|The Economist}}
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|title=[http://www.economist.com/news/books-and-arts/21579801-making-sense-statistics-riddle-our-days-snakes-and-ladders Snakes and ladders]
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|passage=Risk is everywhere.{{...}}For each one there is a frighteningly precise measurement of just how likely it is to jump from the shadows and get you. "The Norm Chronicles"{{...}}aims to '''help''' data-phobes find their way through this blizzard of risks.}}
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#: {{usex|He '''helped''' his grandfather cook breakfast.''
 

# {{context|transitive|lang=en}} To contribute in some way to.

  

# {{context|transitive|lang=en}} To contribute in some way to.
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#: ''The white paint on the walls '''helps''' make the room look brighter.''

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#: {{usex|The white paint on the walls '''helps''' make the room look brighter.}}
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#: ''If you want to get a job, it '''helps''' to have some prior experience.''

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#: {{usex|If you want to get a job, it '''helps''' to have some prior experience.}}
 

# {{context|intransitive|lang=en}} To provide assistance.

  

# {{context|intransitive|lang=en}} To provide assistance.
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#: ''She was struggling with the groceries, so I offered to '''help'''.''

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#: {{usex|She was struggling with the groceries, so I offered to '''help'''.}}
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#: ''Please, '''help'''!''

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#: {{usex|Please, '''help'''!}}
 

# {{context|transitive|lang=en}} To [[avoid]]; to [[prevent]]; to [[refrain]] from; to [[restrain]] (oneself). Usually used in nonassertive contexts with ''[[can]]''.

  

# {{context|transitive|lang=en}} To [[avoid]]; to [[prevent]]; to [[refrain]] from; to [[restrain]] (oneself). Usually used in nonassertive contexts with ''[[can]]''.
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#: ''We couldn't '''help''' noticing that you were late.''

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#: {{usex|We couldn't '''help''' noticing that you were late.}}
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#: ''We couldn't '''help''' but notice that you were late.''

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#: {{usex|We couldn't '''help''' but notice that you were late.}}
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#: ''She's trying not to smile, but she can't '''help''' herself.''

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#: {{usex|She's trying not to smile, but she can't '''help''' herself.}}
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#: ''Can I '''help''' it if I'm so beautiful?''

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#: {{usex|Can I '''help''' it if I'm so beautiful?}}
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#: ''Can I '''help''' it that I fell in love with you?''

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#: {{usex|Can I '''help''' it that I fell in love with you?}}
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#: —''Are they going to beat us?'' —''Not if I can '''''help''''' it!''

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#: {{usex|Are they going to beat us? Not if I can '''''help''''' it!}}
   
 

=====Usage notes=====

  

=====Usage notes=====

Latest revision as of 01:52, 11 July 2013

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Contents

English[edit]

English Wikipedia has an article on:

Wikipedia en

Pronunciation[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From Middle English, from Old English help ("help, aid, assistance, relief"), from Proto-Germanic *helpō ("help"), *hilpiz, *hulpiz, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱelb-, *ḱelp- ("to help"). Cognate with West Frisian help ("help"), Dutch hulp ("help"), Swedish hjälpa ("to help"), German Hilfe ("help, aid, assistance"), Danish hjælp ("help"), Norwegian hjelp ("help").

Noun[edit]

help (usually uncountable; plural helps)

  1. (uncountable) Action given to provide assistance; aid.
    I need some help with my homework.
  2. (usually uncountable) Something or someone which provide assistance with a task.
    He was a great help to me when I was moving house.
    I've printed out a list of math helps.
  3. Documentation provided with computer software, etc. and accessed using the computer.
    I can't find anything in the help about rotating an image.
  4. (usually uncountable) One or more people employed to help in the maintenance of a house or the operation of a farm or enterprise.
    The help is coming round this morning to clean.
    Most of the hired help is seasonal, for the harvest.
  5. (uncountable, euphemistic) Correction of deficits, as by psychological counseling or medication or social support or remedial training.
    His suicide attempts were a cry for help.
    He really needs help in handling customer complaints.
    "He's a real road-rager." / "Yup, he really needs help, maybe anger management."
Usage notes[edit]

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.

Quotations[edit]

For usage examples of this term, see the citations page.

Synonyms[edit]
  • (action given to provide assistance): aid, assistance
  • (person or persons who provide assistance):
  • (person employed to help in the maintenance of a house):
Derived terms[edit]

terms derived from help (noun)

Translations[edit]

action given to provide assistance

person or persons who provides assistance with some task

person employed to help in the maintenance of a house

textual support of a software application

Etymology 2[edit]

From Middle English helpen, from Old English helpan ("to help, aid, assist, benefit, relieve, cure"), from Proto-Germanic *helpaną ("to help"), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱelb-, *ḱelp- ("to help"). Cognate with West Frisian helpe ("to help"), Low German helpen ("to help"), Dutch helpen ("to help"), German helfen ("to help"), Danish hjælpe ("to help"), Norwegian hjelpe ("to help").

Verb[edit]

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

  1. (transitive) To provide assistance to (someone or something).
    • 2013 June 22, "Snakes and ladders", The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 76: 
      Risk is everywhere. […] For each one there is a frighteningly precise measurement of just how likely it is to jump from the shadows and get you. "The Norm Chronicles" […] aims to help data-phobes find their way through this blizzard of risks.
    {{usex|He helped his grandfather cook breakfast.
  2. (transitive) To contribute in some way to.
    The white paint on the walls helps make the room look brighter.
    If you want to get a job, it helps to have some prior experience.
  3. (intransitive) To provide assistance.
    She was struggling with the groceries, so I offered to help.
    Please, help!
  4. (transitive) To avoid; to prevent; to refrain from; to restrain (oneself). Usually used in nonassertive contexts with can.
    We couldn't help noticing that you were late.
    We couldn't help but notice that you were late.
    She's trying not to smile, but she can't help herself.
    Can I help it if I'm so beautiful?
    Can I help it that I fell in love with you?
    Are they going to beat us? Not if I can help it!
Usage notes[edit]
Synonyms[edit]
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]

transitive: provide assistance to (someone or something)

contribute in some way to

intransitive: provide assistance

transitive: avoid or prevent

Statistics[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Verb[edit]

help

  1. first-person singular present indicative of helpen
  2. imperative of helpen

Old English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Germanic *helpō.

Noun[edit]

help f

  1. help
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