help
//ˈhɛlp//
Forms
- Plural
- helps
- present (v1)
- help
- past (v2)
- helped
- past participle (v3)
- helped
- present participle
- helping
- 3rd person singular
- helps
Definitions
1.Action given to provide assistance; aid.
- I need some help with my homework.
2.Something or someone which provides assistance with a task.
- He was a great help to me when I was moving house.
3.Documentation provided with computer software that could be accessed using the computer.
- I can't find anything in the help about rotating an image.
4.A study aid.
- I've printed out a list of math helps.
- In 1979 the Church published a Latter-day Saint edition of the King James Version of the Bible in English. Included in this edition were numerous helps to make a study of the scriptures more meaningful and rewarding.
1.To provide assistance to (someone or something).
- He helped his grandfather cook breakfast.
2.To assist (a person) in getting something, especially food or drink at table; used with to.
- Help yourself to whatever's in the fridge.
- It is polite to help your guests to food before serving yourself.
3.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.
- I've already taken three pills, but they don't seem to help my headache.
4.To provide assistance.
- She was struggling with the groceries, so I offered to help.
Frequency
Overall
Very common· #155
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Common
- General reading & writing
- Very common
- Academic
- Uncommon
- Literature
- Uncommon
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Etymology
From Middle English help, from Old English help (“help, aid, assistance, relief”), from Proto-Germanic *helpō (“help”), *hilpiz, *hulpiz, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱelb-, *ḱelp- (“to help”).