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aid

  [eyd]
Use aid in a Sentence
–verb (used with object)
1. to provide support for or relief to; help: to aid the homeless victims of the fire.
2. to promote the progress or accomplishment of; facilitate.
–verb (used without object)
3. to give help or assistance.
–noun
4. help or support; assistance.
5. a person or thing that aids or furnishes assistance; helper; auxiliary.
6. aids, Manège.
a. Also called natural aids. the means by which a rider communicates with and controls a horse, as the hands, legs, voice, and shifts in weight.
b. Also called artificial aids. the devices by means of which a rider increases control of a horse, as spurs, whip, and martingale.
7. aide-de-camp.
8. foreign aid.
9. a payment made by feudal vassals to their lord on special occasions.
10. English History. (after 1066) any of several revenues received by a king in the Middle Ages from his vassals and other subjects, limited by the Magna Charta to specified occasions.
Origin:
1375–1425; (n.) late ME ayde < AF, OF aide, n. deriv. of aid(i)er < L adjūtāre to help (freq. of adjuvāre), equiv. to ad- ad- + -jū- help + -t- freq. suffix + -āre inf. suffix; (v.) < AF, OF aid(i)er < L, as above

Related forms:
aider, noun
aidful, adjective
aidless, adjective

Synonyms:
1. See help. 2. abet, back, foster, advance. 4. succor; relief; subsidy, grant.

Antonyms:
2. hinder, frustrate.

Usage note:
Although the nouns aid and aide both have among their meanings “an assisting person,” the spelling aide is increasingly used for the sense “helper, assistant”: One of the senator's aides is calling. Aide in military use is short for aide-de-camp. It is also the spelling in nurse's aide.
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AID

  [eyd]
–noun U.S. Government.
the division of the United States International Development Cooperation Agency that coordinates the various foreign aid programs with U.S. foreign policy: established in 1961.
Origin:
A(gency for) I(nternational) D(evelopment)

AID

 
1. American Institute of Decorators.
2. American Institute of Interior Designers.
3. Also, A.I.D. British. artificial insemination donor.

foreign aid

 
–noun
economic, technical, or military aid given by one nation to another for purposes of relief and rehabilitation, for economic stabilization, or for mutual defense.
Also called aid.

Origin:
1955–60

Related forms:
foreign-aid, adjective
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aid   (ād)   
intr. & tr.v.   aid·ed, aid·ing, aids
To help or furnish with help, support, or relief. See Synonyms at help.
n.  
  1. The act or result of helping; assistance.
    1. An assistant or helper.
    2. A device that assists: visual aids such as slides.
    3. A hearing aid.
  3. An aide or aide-de-camp.
  4. A monetary payment to a feudal lord by a vassal in medieval England.

[Middle English aiden, from Old French aider, from Latin adiūtāre, frequentative of adiuvāre, to help : ad-, to; see ad- in Indo-European roots + iuvāre, to help.]
aid'er n.
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Aid

Aid\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Aided; p. pr. & vb. n. Aiding.] [F. aider, OF. aidier, fr. L. adjutare to help, freq. of adjuvare to help; ad + juvare to help. Cf. Adjutant.] To support, either by furnishing strength or means in co["o]peration to effect a purpose, or to prevent or to remove evil; to help; to assist.

You speedy helpers . . . Appear and aid me in this enterprise. --Shak.

Syn: To help; assist; support; sustain; succor; relieve; befriend; co["o]perate; promote. See Help.

Aid

Aid\, n. [F. aide, OF. a["i]de, a["i]e, fr. the verb. See Aid, v. t.]

1. Help; succor; assistance; relief.

An unconstitutional mode of obtaining aid. --Hallam.

2. The person or thing that promotes or helps in something done; a helper; an assistant.

It is not good that man should be alone; let us make unto him an aid like unto himself. --Tobit viii. 6.

3. (Eng. Hist.) A subsidy granted to the king by Parliament; also, an exchequer loan.

4. (Feudal Law) A pecuniary tribute paid by a vassal to his lord on special occasions. --Blackstone.

5. An aid-de-camp, so called by abbreviation; as, a general's aid.

Aid prayer (Law), a proceeding by which a defendant beseeches and claims assistance from some one who has a further or more permanent interest in the matter in suit.

To pray in aid, to beseech and claim such assistance.
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Language Translation for : aid
Spanish: ayuda, auxilio,
German: die Hilfe,
Japanese: 援助
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aid  (n.)
1475, "help, assistance," from O.Fr. aide, earlier aiudha, from L.L. adjuta, from fem. pp. of L. adiuvare (pp. adiutus) "to give help to," from ad- "to" + juvare "to help," of unknown origin. The verb is 1483, from O.Fr. aidier, from L. adjutare, freq. of adiuvare. Meaning "thing by which assistance is given" is recorded from 1597. Meaning "material help given by one country to another" is from 1940.

aid  (v.)
1483, from O.Fr. aidier, from L. adjutare, freq. of adjuvare (pp. adjutus) "give help to," from ad- "to" + juvare "to help," of unknown origin.
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Main Entry: 1aid
Function: transitive verb
: to provide with what is useful in achieving an end aid draft resisters —K. A. Cohen> —often used in the phrase aid and abet; —see also ABET intransitive verb : to be of use <aided in the commission of the crime> —aid·er noun

Main Entry: 2aid
Function: noun
1 : an act of aiding aid to the principal>
2 : help given; especially : tangible means of assistance (as money or supplies) <aid to the disabled> aid and comfort to the enemy>
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Main Entry: aid
Pronunciation: 'Ad
Function: noun
1 : the act of helping or treating; also : the help or treatment given aid>
2 : an assisting person or group aid> —compare AIDE
3 : something by which assistance is given : an assisting device aid>; especially : HEARING AID

Main Entry: AID
Function: abbreviation
artificial insemination by donor
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AID abbr.
artificial insemination donor

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AID
Algebraic Interpretive Dialogue

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AID
Agency for International Development
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