Word Finder - aids

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Help; assistance; succor, relief.

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He came to my aid when I was foundering.

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A helper; an assistant.

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Something which helps; a material source of help.

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Slimming aids include dietary supplements and appetite suppressants.

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An historical subsidy granted to the crown by Parliament for an extraordinary purpose, such as a war effort.

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An exchequer loan.

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A pecuniary tribute paid by a vassal to his feudal lord on special occasions.

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An aide-de-camp, so called by abbreviation.

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The incompetent general's brilliant aid often made priceless suggestions.

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To provide support to; to further the progress of; to help; to assist.

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To climb with the use of aids such as pitons.

This provision was omitted from Magna Carta, except so far as it related to aids from the citizens of London.

The grammatical aids are modern.

Swift's pamphlets, written in a style more level with the popular intelligence than even his own ordinary manner, are models alike to the controversialist who aids a good cause and to him who is burdened with a bad one.

The diet, indeed, voted him aids and subsidies, but the great nobles either forbade their collection within their estates, or confiscated the amount collected.

Among other aids should be mentioned the Index Homericus of Seber (Oxford, 1780); Prendergast's Concordance to the Iliad (London, 1875); Dunbar's id.

We can afford no truce in the war on Aids.

Sand bars keep filling up the mouths of these channels, necessitating frequent dredging and extension of the breakwaters, work undertaken by the Federal government, which also maintains a most comprehensive and completeystem of aids to navigation, including lighthouses and lightships, fog alarms, gas and other buoys, life-saving, storm signal and weather report stations.

This second manufacture, however, is thought to have been detrimental to the papyrus, as it would then have been in a dried condition requiring artificial aids, such as a more liberal use of gum or paste, in the process.

As the Dorian tutelar he aids Tyndareus and Aegimius.

Seven years afterwards his most popular prose work - The Aids to Reflection - first appeared.

In the age of child abuse, Aids, abortion and IVF the abduction narratives would voice new concerns.

With Aids in Africa, you ca n't see the tidal wave of despair.

As aids to the study of logic, the doctors of this period, beside the commentaries and treatises of Boetius (q.v.), possessed two tracts attributed to St Augustine, the first of which, Principia dialecticae, is probably his, but is mainly grammatical in its import.

It aids the absorption of fats and may be used with cod liver oil when the latter is administered by the skin.

Interpretations by the Fathers or by the councils are to be taken only as aids to its understanding.

See David; Samuel (BooKs) and especially Cheyne, Aids and Devout Study of Criticism, pp. 80 sqq., 125 sqq.

The Note Perfect training aids have an orchestral accompaniment with the voice part highlighted with piano.

Would digital hearing aids be better for my child?

By the end of April, 330 mobility aids had been distributed by Handicap International.

Link social sectors, control HIV, AIDS, rural artisans, training in rural.. .

Digital hearing aids are available free of charge through NHS audiology services.

Two years ago, her father, the sole breadwinner died of AIDS.

The old aids seemed quite chunky next to her head compared to her new ones.

Some products also have an inductive coupler for people who use hearing aids.

Topics include tropical cyclones, volcanoes, burglary, AIDS. iii.

He was also the first to highlight the dangers of AIDS to his fellow countrymen.

Also, and for your reader's edification, I have been writing about Aids for 15 years.

I thought he had malnutrition, but in fact he had full-blown Aids.

This was used by people in the audience wearing hearing aids.

For Nathan, who had lived an insular life, Aids wasn't an issue.

With Aids in Africa, you can't see the tidal wave of despair.

A symbol of purity, it aids purification on all levels.

The County Council also aids numerous separate schools of art, both general and special, such as the Royal School of Art Needlework and the School of Art Woodcarving; the City and Guilds Institute maintains similar establishments at some of its colleges, and art schools are also generally attached to the polytechnics.

The aids were paid on a few occasions, determined by custom, where the lord was put to unusual expense, as for his ransom when captured by the enemy, or for the knighting of his eldest son.

It possesses only slight influence over the heart and respiration, but it has a specific effect on mucous membranes as the elimination of the drug takes place largely through the lungs, where it aids in loosening bronchial secretions.

The addition of a foot-bridge greatly facilitates the raising and lowering of these shutter weirs, and also aids the regulation of the discharge; but it renders this form of weir much more costly than the ordinary frame weir, and where large quantities of drift come down with sudden floods, the frames of the bridge are liable to be carried away, and therefore boats must be relied on for working the weir.

For the bettering of the transmitted text we can call in aids of a C D partial or subsidiary character which are known in general as testimonia.

When these were refused, he extorted aids from the towns, the Jews or the clergy, the three most defenceless interests in the kingdom.

His father was Etienne Pascal, president of the Court of Aids at Clermont; his mother's name was Antoinette Begon.

Although these works all contain much that is useless or false, yet they are invaluable aids to our understanding of the sacred book.

The king " lived on his own," on rent of crown lands, feudal fines and aids, wardships, marriages, and the revenues of vacant bishoprics.

He granted a charter in 1194 declaring that he retained the borough in his hand, and granting a yearly fair and weekly market, freedom from certain tolls, from shire and hundred court and sheriffs' aids.

The police, which has numerous duties over and above those of the prevention and detection of crime, greatly aids a government so paternal as that of India in keeping touch with the widely extended masses of the population.

In very bad cases of heart disease, where the patient is unable to go about, the best plan of treatment usually is to make him stay absolutely quiet in bed and have massage, which aids the circulation, tends to remove waste, and increases the appetite.

After oxidation, the product is reduced by heating with carbon, care being taken to prevent any loss through volatilization, by covering the mass with a layer of some protective substance such as potash, soda or glauber salt, which also aids the refining.

The number of exites is less constant, but, in A pus, two are present, the proximal branchial in function and the distal forming a stiffer plate which probably aids in swimming.

This form is retained, with little alteration in some adult Copepoda, where the biramous " palp " still aids in locomotion.

As in many other " pelagic " organisms, spines and processes from the surface of the body are often developed, which are probably less important as defensive organs than as aids to flotation.

The existence of groups or families of allied languages, each group being evidently descended from a single language, affords one of the principal aids in classifying nations and races.

Finally in the yew, as a type of the family Taxeae, the ovules occur singly at the apex of a lateral branch, enclosed when ripe by a conspicuous red or yellow fleshy arillus, which serves as an attraction to animals, and thus aids in the dispersal of the seeds.