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aid

  [eyd]
–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  (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: 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>
Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law, © 1996 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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Main Entry: AID
Function: abbreviation
artificial insemination by donor
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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AID abbr.
artificial insemination donor

The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary
Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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