Aid

Definition: Aid

Aid

Noun

1. A resource: "visual aids in teaching"; "economic assistance to depressed areas".

2. The activity of contributing to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose: "he gave me an assist with the housework"; "could not walk without assistance"; "rescue party went to their aid"; "offered his help in unloading".

3. A gift of money to support a worthy person or cause.

4. The work of caring for or attending to someone or something; "no medical care was required"; "the old car needed constant attention".

Verb

1. Give help or assistance; be of service; "Everyone helped out during the earthquake"; "Can you help me carry this table?" "She never helps around the house".

2. Improve the condition of; "These pills will help the patient".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "aid" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Computing

Agriculture

Census

Geological

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

AID

AID

AID

AID

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Aid

Aid

Verb: aid, assist, help, succor, lend one's aid; come to the aid; n. of; contribute, subscribe to; bring aid, give aid, furnish aid, afford aid, supply aid; Noun: give a helping hand, stretch a hand, lend a helping hand, lend a hand, bear a helping hand, hold out a hand, hold out a helping hand; give one a life, give one a cast, give one a turn; take by the hand, take in tow;help a lame dog over a stile, lend wings to.

Relief, rescue; help at a dead lift; supernatural aid; deus ex machina.

Noun: aid, aidance; assistance, help, opitulation, succor; support, lift, advance, furtherance, promotion; coadjuvancy; (cooperation).

Adverb: with the aid, by the aid; of; on behalf of, in behalf of; in aid of, in the service of, in the name of, in favor of, in furtherance of; on account of; for the sake of, on the part of; non obstante.

Benevolence

Treat well; give comfort, smooth the bed of death; do good, do a good turn; benefit; (goodness); render a service, be of use; aid.

Instrumentality

Noun: instrumentality; aid; subservience, subserviency; mediation, intervention, medium, intermedium, vehicle, hand; agency.

Adverb: through, by, per; whereby, thereby, hereby; by the agency of; by dint of; by virtue of, in virtue of; through the medium of; Noun: along with; on the shoulders of; by means of; by the aid of, with the aid of; (assistance).

Means

Noun: means, resources, wherewithal, ways and means; capital; (money); revenue; stock in trade; provision; a shot in the locker; appliances; (machinery); means and appliances; conveniences; cards to play; expedients; (measures); two strings to one's bow; sheet anchor; (safety); aid; medium.

How; (in what manner); through; (by the instrumentality of); with the aid of, by the aid of; (assistance); by the agency of;

Opposition

Absence of aid; resistance; restraint; hindrance.

Support

Supporter; aid; prop, stand, anvil, fulciment; cue rest, jigger; monkey; stay, shore, skid, rib, truss, bandage; sleeper; stirrup, stilts, shoe, sole, heel, splint, lap, bar, rod, boom, sprit, outrigger; ratlings.

Maintain, keep on foot; aid.

Crosswords: Aid

I designed it as a marital aid. (Short Circuit; writing credit: Brent Maddock; S.S. Wilson)

With hopefulness in my heart I told you then that with Lucifer's aid we might look forward to a more succulent occasion (The Fearless Vampire Killers; writing credit: Gérard Brach ; Roman Polanski)

It leaves a bad effect on our allies and gives aid and comfort to the enemy (In Harm's Way; writing credit: James Bassett; Wendell Mayes)

Come to my aid! (CardCaptors; writing credit: Jennifer Pertsch)

Aid our own re-sus-ci-tation (Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade; writing credit: Mario Van Peebles)

With the aid of 8 dust brothers, Beck Hanson (You Get What You Give; performing artist: New Radicals)

Of an undercover aid (Spies Like Us; performing artist: Paul McCartney)

Spend my last lone quarter on the korn klub's kool aid (Bath Of Fire; performing artist: The Presidents)

I have gotten to the age where I need my false teeth and hearing aid before I can ask where I left my glasses. (references; author: unknown)

Explosives: A Construction Aid (1958)

Psychological First Aid (1945)

First Aid (1943)

With the Aid of the Law (1915)

By the Curate's Aid (1913)

Hearing Aid (performing artist: They Might Be Giants)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• Rite Aid Corporation: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Pulmonary and Respiratory Aid Equipment in Egypt: A Strategic Entry Report, 1999 (reference)

• Japanese Untied Aid and Credits in Vietnam: A Strategic Entry Report, 1997 (reference)

• The 2003-2008 World Outlook for Antiseptic Creams, Sprays and First Aid Wipes (reference)

• The World Market for Radar Apparatus, Radio Navigational Aid Apparatus, and Radio Remote Control Apparatus: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Dr Kellon's Guide to First Aid for Horses (reference)

• Dr. Amelia's Boredom Survival Guide: First Aid for Rainy Days, Boring Errands, Waiting Rooms, Whatever! (Amelia) (reference)

• First Aid for Meetings: Quick Fixes and Major Repairs for Running Effective Meetings (reference)

• First Aid for the USMLE Step 2 (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Chronicle Financial Aid Guide (reference)

• Cia Reference Aid Maps (reference)

• College Financial Aid Emergency Kit (reference)

• Aid (reference)

• Aid For Education Report (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Farm Aid 2001 - A Concert For America (reference)

• Where Did I Come From? A Facts of Life Teaching Aid (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Without the Aid of a Safety Net (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• First Aid 2000 (Jewel Case) (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Deluxe Home and Auto Family First Aid Kit (reference)

• Home and Auto Family First Aid Kit (reference)

• Mommy Bear Sleeping Aid (reference)

• Kitchen Aid Silicone Spatula & Spoon Duo Pack, White (reference)

• Multi-Purpose Family First Aid Kit (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Dr. John Hannah, Adm., AID, addresses group at the 100 millionth smallpox vaccination ceremony. Credit: CDC.

Disaster Aid. Local citizens receive Typhoid vacinations from Dr. M.L. Fuller, Director, Laredo/Webb County Health Unit and other employees in a mass immunization program following the Rio Grande flood of 1954. Credit: CDC.

Gilbert T. Rude As a young aid. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Passed Assistant Surgeon Elisha Kent Kane Aid on the Coast Survey prior to Arctic explorations 1820-1857. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Taken from the top of a navigational aid near Sabine Pass, Texas. Changing Mini-ranger die hard batteries. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Large stand built of welded fuel barrels set as navigation aid on way to South Pole. McMurdo Station to South Pole traverse. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Figure 14. W. F. Ewald's and K. Grein's photometer. Left: view of the apparatus. Right (from top to bottom): messenger container; removable photographic plates; removable filters. This instrument was designed by Wolfgang F. Ewald with the aid of Klaus Green. It was first tested off Capri and put to the definitive tests off Monaco in up to 500 meters. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Figure 53. A bottom float for studying currents in closed basins of small extent used by the Copenhagen Hydrographic Laboratory. Left:float. Right: message. This float was first conceived by George P. Bidder with the aid of the Marine Biological Association of Plymouth, U. K., and first used from the HUXLEY in 1904 when 390 were launched in the North Sea. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Wier, plantings, and wood debris in stream to aid in stream stabilization of Eastern Oregon stream. Credit: Gary Wilson.

Erasmo Montemayer (right), NRCS District Conservationist, and Zaragoza Rodriguez, RC&D coordinator, inspect hydrant operation with a volunteer firefighter from Hebbronville, TX. The Rio Bravo RC&D helped establish dry hydrants to aid in fire protection. [. Credit: Ken Hammond.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

We will not for the future grant to anyone license to take an aid from his own free tenants, except to ransom his person, to make his eldest son a knight, and once to marry his eldest daughter; and on each of these occasions there shall be levied only a reasonable aid. (reference)

Clause 1: Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. (reference)

But neither the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void. (reference)

To aid him in the performance of these duties, he is authorized to appoint certain officers, who act by his authority and in conformity with his orders. (reference)

In each of the cases, minors of the Negro race, through their legal representatives, seek the aid of the courts in obtaining admission to the public schools of their community on a nonsegregated basis. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

She decided, moreover, that he had a right to her utmost aid.

My child will not die with that frightful sickness for lack of aid.

You had the sacraments and graces and indulgences of the church to aid you.

Furniture! Thank God, I can sit and I can stand without the aid of a furniture warehouse

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Some can be used with a hearing aid and others without. (references)

Therapy and intraoral appliances may aid speech and swallowing. (references)

Adults who do not see a physician before getting a hearing aid must sign a waiver. (references)

Business

Until the 1960s, the ROK relied on U.S. military aid to finance defense spending. (references)

When and if this aid flow begins, there could be a number of opportunities for exporters. (references)

Most of this foreign aid (in excess of $15 billion) has been to Arab and Muslim countries. (references)

Children

Belgium

It gives special aid to parents of children with disabilities and to parents with disabilities. (references)

Togo

Orphans and other needy children receive some aid from extended families or private organizations but less from the State. (references)

Egypt

It works closely with U.N. agencies and other international aid donors to design job-training programs for persons with disabilities. (references)

Civil Liberties

Colombia

They were given aid, and the UNHCR reported that their return was voluntary. (references)

Turkey

The province provides some public services and financial aid to the returnees. (references)

Korea

These serve as interlocutors with foreign church groups and international aid organizations. (references)

Economic History

Sri Lanka

Korean grant aid requested for designs. (references)

Seychelles

Economic aid received (1995): $16.4 million. (references)

Mongolia

Japan is Mongolia's largest bilateral aid donor. (references)

Human Rights

Sri Lanka

Private legal aid organizations assist some defendants. (references)

India

It also continued to provide financial aid to the states. (references)

Angola

WFP subsequently suspended food aid to Kuito temporarily. (references)

Indigenous People

Indonesia

Some NGO's that seek to aid these communities are subjected to verbal attacks, raids, and other forms of intimidation by government security forces. (references)

Indonesia

Land disputes represent the largest category of complaints submitted to the National Human Rights Commission and a significant portion of the cases brought to legal aid foundations and other assistance organizations. (references)

Minorities

India

Since 1998 there has been increased harassment of Christian aid workers. (references)

Political Economy

Moldova

The U.S. is by far the largest bilateral aid donor in Moldova. (references)

Armenia

Armenia, per capita, is the third largest recipient of U.S. aid. (references)

Tanzania

The United States and Japan are not withholding aid from Zanzibar. (references)

Political Rights

Zimbabwe

Government and ruling party supporters used tactics of intimidation and violence, with the aid of security forces, to manipulate the electoral process in four districts holding parliamentary by-elections and three cities holding mayoral elections during the year. (references)

Trade

Luxembourg

The formalities for state aid are kept to a strict minimum. (references)

Albania

Receipt of this aid is conditioned on on-going economic reforms. (references)

Travel

Nepal

It has claimed approximately 1700 lives since it began in February 1996. The violence has not affected the Kathmandu valley to a great degree, but in the Midwestern districts of Rolpa, Rukum, Jajarkot, Salyan and Gorkha foreigners, and particularly aid workers, have been threatened and, occasionally, attacked. (references)

Women

Yemen

The only institutionalized aid program for victims is a small shelter for battered women in Aden. (references)

Egypt

Several NGO's offer counseling, legal aid, and other services to women who are victims of domestic violence. (references)

Worker Rights

Oman

All employers are required by law to provide first aid facilities. (references)

Australia

In October Australian Aid (AUSAID) began a development project on the prevention of trafficking in Southeast Asia. (references)

Israel and the occupied territories

NGO's exist to aid workers facing deportations, and there have been cases in which the worker's status has been reinstated. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "aid": absence of aid ♦ aid and abet ♦ aid and abet smb. ♦ aid and abet smb. in committing a crime ♦ aid de camp ♦ aid man ♦ Aid prayer ♦ aid station ♦ aid to air navigation ♦ aid to approach ♦ Aid to Families with Dependent Children ♦ aid to identification ♦ aid to landing ♦ aid to location ♦ aid to navigation ♦ aid to refugees ♦ aid to taxiing ♦ aid worker ♦ audiovisual aid ♦ band aid ♦ behavioural design aid ♦ bilateral aid ♦ brain Aid Prolog ♦ by aid of ♦ by the aid of ♦ Christian Aid ♦ coastal aid ♦ come to smb.'s aid ♦ come to the aid of ♦ deaf aid ♦ diagnostic aid ♦ Dutch Interchurch Aid ♦ economic aid ♦ financial aid ♦ first aid ♦ first aid kit ♦ first aid man ♦ first aid post ♦ first aid station ♦ first aid worker ♦ foreign aid ♦ grant aid ♦ ground aid ♦ hearing aid ♦ hearing aid device ♦ homing aid ♦ in aid of ♦ landing aid ♦ legal aid ♦ medical aid ♦ memory aid ♦ mutual aid ♦ navigation aid ♦ navigational aid ♦ night vision aid ♦ nursing aid ♦ partially untied aid financing ♦ programming aid ♦ radio aid ♦ render first aid ♦ short distance navigational aid ♦ state aid ♦ supernatural aid ♦ teaching aid ♦ To pray in aid ♦ visual aid ♦ visual aid to navigatio ♦ welfare aid ♦ with the aid of. Additional references.

Beginning with "aid": aid-agency, Aid-de-camp, aid-donor, aid-donors, aid-financed, aid-for-economic-reform, aid-funded, aid-giver, aid-givers, aid-giving, Aid-major, Aid-spain, aid-tied, aid-to-gnp, Aid-to-india, aid-to-recruitment, aid-user, aid-users, aid-workers.

Ending with "aid": first-aid, foreign-aid, grant-aid, hearing-aid, humanitarian-aid, Kool-aid.

Containing "aid": first-aid attendant, first-aid box, first-aid course, first-aid kit, first-aid outfit, first-aid society, first-aid station, first-aid supplies, first-aid volunteer, social-aid-cum-aphrodisiac.

Afrikaans

hulp (help), help (abet, accomodate, assist, help), assistent (assistant, assistent, helper). (various references)

Albanian

ndihmoj (administer, advance, assist, avail, back, befriend, bestead, chip in, contribute, facilitate, further, give a hand, help, help out, lend a hand, make for, meet halfway, pander, promote, relieve, subserve, succor, succour, support, take effect, tide over), ndihmës (accessary, accessory, acolyte, adjunct, adjutant, adjuvant, aide, ancillary, assistant, auxiliary, candle holder, coadjutant, coadjutor, first mate, gillie, help, helper, henchman, mate, paramedical, second, secondary, servo, sidekick, subsidiary, tutor), ndihmë (assistance, backstop, bee, boon, charity, dole, endowment, facilitation, help, relief, stay, subsidy, subvention, succor, succour, support). (various references)

Arabic 

عون (help, helper), ‏مساعدة (assist, assistance, benefit, contribution, good turn, grant, help, relief, subsidy, succor, succour, support), ‏مساعد (accessory, accomplice, advantageous, ancillary, assistance, auxiliary, backing, beneficial, conducive, contributory, favorable, favourable, help, helpful, helpmate, propitious, serviceable, subsidiary, supplementary, support, useful), ‏معونة, ‏نجدة (help, relief, salvage, sos, succor, succour, support), ‏غوث (relief, succor, succour), ‏ساعد (assist, bear smb. a hand, encourage, facilitate, forearm, help, lend, pitch, relieve, shoulder, support, take a hand), ‏عون (assistance, backing, benefit, boost, comfort, lift, relief, succor, succour), ‏المساعد (adjunct, assistant, helper), ‏إتاوة يدفعها تابع إقطاعي إلى متبوعه, ‏أداة مساعدة. (various references)

Bulgarian 

съдействувам (abet, co operate, collaborate, concur, conduce, help up, minister, play, promote), налог (imposition, impost, rate, scot, tax, tribute), пособие, помощно средство, помощник (acolyte, adjunct, adjuvant, affiliate, aide, ally, assistant, auxiliary, candle holder, coadjutor, confederate, help, helper, lieutenant, mate, pander, second, secondary, subsidiary), помощ (assistance, benefit, dole, favour, help, leg up, lift, subvention, support), помагам (assist, befriend, benefit, bestead, comfort, give a hand, help, land a hand, pitch in), помагало (appliance, handbook, reference book, stand by, textbook), подкрепям (back, back up, bear out, bolster, buttress, carry through, corroborate, countenance, enlist, give a hand, patronize, piece in, promote, prop up, refresh, second, stand by, stand to, stick by, stick up for, support, sustain, take up, undergird, underlie, underpin, uphold, verify, weigh in with), подкрепа (advocacy, backing, championship, comfort, corroboration, help, maintenance, patronage, promotion, prop, support, sustentation, umbrella, yeoman service), подпомагане (assistance, facilitation, furtherance, helping, lift, patronage, subvention), подпомагам (advantage, back, boost, facilitate, forward, further, get along, help, help on, help up, nurse, patronize, promote, prosper, relieve, set forward, subserve, succor, succour, support), данък (cess, duty, imposition, impost, lot, scot, tax, tribute). (various references)

Catalan

ajudar (accomodate, assist, help, to help). (various references)

Chinese 

援助 (Aided, Aiding). (various references)

Czech

pomoc (assistance, help, ministration, refuge, relief, remedy, stand by, standby, succour, support), pomáhat (assist, support, sustain). (various references)

Danish

hjælpe (accomodate, assist, help), hjælp (help), assistent (assistant, helper). (various references)

Dutch

hulp (assistant, assistent, help, helper), helper (assistant, assistent, helper), famulus (assistant, helper), assistent (assistant, assistent, helper). (various references)

Esperanto

asisti (abet, assist, help), asistanto (assistant, helper), helpo (help), helpi (accomodate, assist, help), helpanto (assistent, helper). (various references)

Faeroese

hjálpa (abet, accomodate, assist, contribute, help), ganga til handa (abet, assist, help). (various references)

Farsi 

یاور (Adjutant, Assist, Assistant, Helper), یاری کردن (Help, Succor), یاری (Companionship, Help), پشتیبانی کردن (Champion, Countenance, Prop, Rally, Second, Support), مساعدت کردن , همدست (Accomplice, Associate, Complier, Cooperator, Pal, Partner), کمک کردن (Boost, Hand, Help, Redound, Relieve), کمک (Adjutant, Ancillary, Assist, Assistance, Avail, Hand, Help, Helper, Helpmeet, Mate, Relief, Second, Service, Subservience, Succor, Support), حمایت کردن (Assert, Defend, Protect, Stead, Support), حمایت (Auspices, Lee, Patronage, Shelter), بردست (Assistant). (various references)

Finnish

auttaa (accomodate, assist, be of use, help, lend a hand, remedy, support, to help). (various references)

French

aider, aide (aide), secourir, assister (to grant aid, to provide aid). (various references)

Frisian

assistint (assistant, helper). (various references)

German

Hilfe (assistance, easement, help, relief, succor), helfen (abet, accomodate, aiding, assist, avail, be of help to, cure, give a hand, help, lend a hand, relieve, to aid, to assist, to avail, to lend a hand, to second), Hilfsmittel (auxiliary means, expedient, means, resource), Beistand (abetment, assistance, attendance, help, legal adviser, second, sidekick, succor, succour, support), Beihilfe (abetment, abets, aiding and abetting, allowance, contribution, financial assistance, grant, grant-in-aid, help, subsidy). (various references)

Greek 

βοηθώ (assist, be of assistance, befriend, help, help along, help out, lend a hand, succor, succour), βοήθεια (assistance, help, helping, lift, succor, succour, support). (various references)

Hebrew 

מכשיר (apparatus, appliance, gadget, implement, instrument, organ, tool), לעזור (assist, facilitate, help), לסיע (assist, befriend, facilitate, help, succor), תמיכה (assistance, countenance, help, hold, support, sustenance), עזרה (assistance, help, helping, succor, succour), עזר (assistance, help, succour), אמצעי (expedient, facility, implement, indirectly, mean, means, measure, median, medium, mid, middle, organ, resort, resource, resources, step, steppingstone, tool), העזרות (assistance, help), סיוע (assistance, facilitation, help, succor, succour, support). (various references)

Hungarian

segítség (assistance, help, mayday, relief, subsidy, succor, succour, support), segély (assistance, benefit, cost of living allowance, grant, help, redress, relief, subsidy, support), segédeszköz (tool), segítőtárs (helpmate, helpmeet, pander), segít (abet, accomodate, assist, help, lean, minister, relieve, succor, succour, support, sustain, to aid, to assist, to avail, to back up, to bear a hand, to help, to lend a hand, to minister, to stead, to succour, to support), segédlet (assistance, help, study-aid, work-help), segéderő (coadjutor). (various references)

Icelandic

hjálpa (accomodate, assist, help), hjálp (help). (various references)

Indonesian

tunjangan (alimony, allowance, subsidy), pertolongan (accomodation, assistance, help), menolong (help), bantuan (assist, help). (various references)

Irish

cuiditheoir (assistant, assistent, helper), cúntóir (assistant, assistent, helper), cúnamh. (various references)

Italian

aiutare (abet, accomodate, assist, befriend, help, help each other, help oneself, relieve, render, see through, stimulate, succor, succour, support, to help), assistere (abet, assist, attend, be present, help, look after, minister, nurse, sit in), assistenza (assistance, attendance, help, ministration, presence), aiuto (assistance, assistant, help, rescue). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

補佐 (adviser, assistance, assistant, counselor, help), 扶助 (assistance, help, support). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

すくい (help, relief), おうえん (assistance, barracking, cheering, chrome yellow, help, reinforcement, rooting, support), きゅうさい (former wife, help, nonappearance in print, old debt, relief, rescue, salvation), きゅうご (relief), きゅうじょ (relief, rescue), しえん (backing, personal grudge or enmity, purple smoke, rehearsal, support, tobacco smoke, trial performance), ふじょ (assistance, help, medium, shrine maiden, sorceress, support, woman, womankind), ほさ (adviser, assistance, assistant, counselor, help), ほよく (assistance), ほじょ (assistance, auxiliary, support), せわ (assistance, help, looking after), エイド , えんじょ (assistance, support). (various references)

Korean 

원조 (Aiding, Assistance, Assisting). (various references)

Malay

pembantu (assistant, helper), membantu (abet, assist, help), bantuan (help), bantu ... membantu (accomodate, assist, cooperate, co-operate, help), bantu (abet, assist, help). (various references)

Manx

cooney lesh (facilitate, help). (various references)

Norwegian

hjelpe (abet, accomodate, assist, help). (various referen