un aided
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.
b.
Also called artificial aids. the devices by means of which a rider increases control of a horse, as spurs, whip, and martingale.
7.
8.
Origin:
1375–1425; (noun) late Middle English ayde < Anglo-French, Old French aide, noun derivative of aid(i)er < Latin adjūtāre to help (frequentative of adjuvāre), equivalent to ad- ad- + -jū- help + -t- frequentative suffix + -āre infinitive suffix; (v.) < Anglo-French, Old French aid(i)er < Latin, as above
1375–1425; (noun) late Middle English ayde < Anglo-French, Old French aide, noun derivative of aid(i)er < Latin adjūtāre to help (frequentative of adjuvāre), equivalent to ad- ad- + -jū- help + -t- frequentative suffix + -āre infinitive suffix; (v.) < Anglo-French, Old French aid(i)er < Latin, as above
Related forms
aid·er, noun
aid·ful, adjective
aid·less, adjective
un·aid·ed, adjective
un·aid·ed·ly, adverb
Antonyms
2. hinder, frustrate.
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.
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 (eɪd) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —vb | |
| 1. | to give support to (someone to do something); help or assist |
| 2. | (tr) to assist financially |
| —n | |
| 3. | assistance; help; support |
| 4. | a person, device, etc, that helps or assists: a teaching aid |
| 5. | mountaineering Also: artificial aid any of various devices such as piton or nut when used as a direct help in the ascent |
| 6. | (in medieval Europe; in England after 1066) a feudal payment made to the king or any lord by his vassals, usually on certain occasions such as the marriage of a daughter or the knighting of an eldest son |
| 7. | informal (Brit) in aid of in support of; for the purpose of |
| [C15: via Old French aidier from Latin adjūtāre to help, from juvāre to help] | |
| 'aider | |
| —n | |
| Aid or -aid | |
| —n combining form | |
| denoting a charitable organization or function that raises money for a cause: Band Aid; Ferryaid | |
| -aid or -aid | |
| —n combining form | |
| AID | |
| —abbreviation for | |
| 1. | acute infectious disease |
| 2. | artificial insemination (by) donor: former name for Donor Insemination (DI) |
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Word Origin & History
aid
late 15c., "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" (see adjutant). Meaning "thing by which assistance is given" is recorded from c.1600. Meaning
"material help given by one country to another" is from 1940.
aid
late 15c., from O.Fr. aidier, from L. adjutare, freq. of adiuvare (pp. adjutus) "give help to" (see adjutant).
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Medical Dictionary
AID abbr.
artificial insemination donor
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Abbreviations & Acronyms
| AID Agency for International Development |
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