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Helping   /hˈɛlpɪŋ/   Listen
Helping

noun
1.
An individual quantity of food or drink taken as part of a meal.  Synonyms: portion, serving.  "His portion was larger than hers" , "There's enough for two servings each"



Help

verb
(past & past part. helped; obs. past holp, obs. past part. holpen; pres. part. helping)
1.
Give help or assistance; be of service.  Synonyms: aid, assist.  "Can you help me carry this table?" , "She never helps around the house"
2.
Improve the condition of.  Synonym: aid.
3.
Be of use.  Synonym: facilitate.
4.
Abstain from doing; always used with a negative.  Synonym: help oneself.  "She could not help watching the sad spectacle"
5.
Help to some food; help with food or drink.  Synonym: serve.
6.
Contribute to the furtherance of.
7.
Take or use.  Synonym: avail.
8.
Improve; change for the better.



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"Helping" Quotes from Famous Books



... given little odd jobs during the very few hours of their insistent helping. They varnished, polished, oiled, cleaned copper wire, unpacked material, even swept up the debris left by the carpenters; at least, they did until Skeets managed to fall headlong down about one-half of the unfinished stairway and to sprain her ankle. Then Grace's loyalty compelled her attention ...
— Radio Boys Cronies • Wayne Whipple and S. F. Aaron

... little year with its four seasons; and when in the hall he stood by her, helping her with her cloak (silk and gray fur, folding the delicate line of the neck), and became aware that even those last moments did not hold the word his soul was whispering, he cursed his cowardice, and, weary of himself, he turned ...
— Mike Fletcher - A Novel • George (George Augustus) Moore

... members. It is affiliated to the Association of Teachers in Technical Institutes, and is thus enabled to obtain good legal advice. A representative has been appointed to sit on the Council for the Registration of Teachers. The Association is helping to educate public opinion, and to review and consider the pedagogy of domestic subjects in all classes of schools. Domestic Subjects' teachers are also admitted to membership of other Teachers' Associations, ...
— Women Workers in Seven Professions • Edith J. Morley

... still strong. Certainly at this same time Seward was making it plain to Lyons that while opposed to current Congressional expressions of antagonism to Napoleon's Mexican policy, he was himself in favour, once the Civil War was ended, of helping the republican Juarez drive ...
— Great Britain and the American Civil War • Ephraim Douglass Adams

... flower-basket on arm, scissors in hand. She had been fluttered, positively felt her heart-beats, as she sailed down in pursuit; but then Sanchia, under the brim of her garden hat, must have divined her, for, with a few clear words of direction over her shoulder to the young gardener who was helping her, she had steered smoothly away, and, without running, could not have been caught. The thing was marked, not uncivilly, but quite clearly. What could ...
— Rest Harrow - A Comedy of Resolution • Maurice Hewlett


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