help /help/

1. To contribute towards the success of, aid or assist
2. To give means for doing anything
3. To relieve the wants of
4. To provide or supply with a portion
5. To deal out
6. To remedy
7. To mitigate
8. To prevent, to keep from

1. To give assistance
2. To contribute

1. Means or strength given to another for a purpose
2. Assistance
3. Relief
4. Someone who assists
5. A hired servant, esp domestic
6. An employee

helpˈable adjective

helpˈer noun

1. Someone who helps
2. An assistant
3. An assistant minister (archaic)
4. A biological entity that facilitates the action of another, eg a plasmid that provides a replicative function (biology)

helpˈful adjective

1. Giving help
2. Useful

helpˈfully adverb

helpˈfulness noun

helpˈing adjective

Giving help or support

A portion served at a meal

helpˈless adjective

1. Without ability to do things for oneself
2. Wanting assistance
3. Destitute (obsolete)
4. Giving no help (Shakespeare)
5. That cannot be helped (Spenser)

helpˈlessly adverb

helpˈlessness noun

helpˈdesk noun

A department of an organization that provides a support service by means of a helpline (qv below)

helper T lymphocyte or helper T cell noun (immunology)

A thymus-derived lymphocyte which co-operates with B lymphocytes to enable them to produce an antibody when stimulated by an antigen

helping hand noun

1. Assistance
2. A long-handled device used for reaching and gripping objects that one cannot reach by hand

helpˈline noun

An often free telephone line by means of which people with a particular problem may contact advisers who will help them deal with it

helpˈmate noun

(a modification of helpˈmeet, itself formed from the phrase in the Bible (Genesis 2.18), ‘an help meet for him’) a helper, specif a wife

cannot help (or be helped)

Cannot avoid (or be avoided)

cannot help oneself

Cannot refrain from or resist doing something

help off with

To aid in taking off, disposing or getting rid of

help oneself (to)

To take for oneself without waiting for offer or authority

help on with

To help to put on

help out

1. To eke out
2. To supplement
3. To assist

more than one can help

(illogically but idiomatically) more than is necessary

so help me (God)

1. A form of solemn oath
2. On my word

• landsman
• landsmen
• Landsmål
• land-spaniel
• land-spring
• land-springs
• land-steward
• land-stewards
• Landsthing
• Landsting
• Landsturm
• land-surveying
• land-surveyor
• land-surveyors
• Landtag
• land tax
• land taxes
• land-value
• land-values
• land-waiter
• land-waiters
• landward
• landwards
• Landwehr
• landwind