ALL meanings of help
help
H h - verb with object help to give or provide what is necessary to accomplish a task or satisfy a need; contribute strength or means to; render assistance to; cooperate effectively with; aid; assist: He planned to help me with my work. Let me help you with those packages. 1
- verb with object help to save; rescue; succor: Help me, I'm falling! 1
- verb with object help to make easier or less difficult; contribute to; facilitate: The exercise of restraint is certain to help the achievement of peace. 1
- verb with object help to be useful or profitable to: Her quick mind helped her career. 1
- verb with object help to refrain from; avoid (usually preceded by can or cannot): He can't help doing it. 1
- verb with object help to relieve or break the uniformity of: Small patches of bright color can help an otherwise dull interior. 1
- verb with object help to relieve (someone) in need, sickness, pain, or distress. 1
- verb with object help to remedy, stop, or prevent: Nothing will help my headache. 1
- verb with object help to serve food to at table (usually followed by to): Help her to salad. 1
- verb with object help to serve or wait on (a customer), as in a store. 1
- verb without object help to give aid; be of service or advantage: Every little bit helps. 1
- noun help the act of helping; aid or assistance; relief or succor. 1
- noun help a person or thing that helps: She certainly is a help in an emergency. 1
- noun help a hired helper; employee. 1
- noun help a body of such helpers. 1
- noun help a domestic servant or a farm laborer. 1
- noun help means of remedying, stopping, or preventing: The thing is done, and there is no help for it now. 1
- noun help Older Use. helping (def 2). 1
- idioms help cannot / can't help but, to be unable to refrain from or avoid; be obliged to: Still, you can't help but admire her. 1
- idioms help help oneself to, to serve oneself; take a portion of: Help yourself to the cake. to take or use without asking permission; appropriate: They helped themselves to the farmer's apples. Help yourself to any of the books we're giving away. 1
- idioms help so help me, (used as a mild form of the oath “so help me God”) I am speaking the truth; on my honor: That's exactly what happened, so help me. 1
- noun Definition of help in Technology 1. (language, robotics) DEA. A Language for industrial robots. 2. (Help Est un Lisp Paresseux - Help Is a Lazy Lisp). A lazy version of Scheme with strictness annotations, by Thomas Schiex <[email protected]>. 1
- noun help Make it easier for (someone) to do something by offering one's services or financial or material aid. 1
- noun help Help but, in sentences like She's so clever you can't help but admire her, has been condemned by some as the ungrammatical version of cannot help admiring her, but the idiom is common in all kinds of speech and writing and can only be characterized as standard. 1
- transitive verb help assist 1
- transitive verb help save, rescue 1
- intransitive verb help assist with 1
- verbal expression help assist in doing 1
- transitive verb help improve 1
- transitive verb help relieve 1
- transitive verb help facilitate 1
- transitive verb help be useful to 1
- interjection help call for assistance 1
- noun help assistance 1
- noun help aid 1
- noun help sb who helps 1
- noun help employees, assistants 1
- noun help relief 1
- noun help employee, assistant 1
- intransitive verb help give aid 1
- transitive verb help avoid, prevent 1
- transitive verb help provide with support 1
- verb help If you say that something helps, you mean that it makes something easier to do or get, or that it improves a situation to some extent. 0
- verb help If you help someone go somewhere or move in some way, you give them support so that they can move more easily. 0
- verb help If you help yourself, you try to get yourself out of a difficult situation rather than accept it and think you can do nothing to change it. 0
- singular noun help If you say that someone or something has been a help or has been some help, you mean that they have helped you to solve a problem. 0
- uncountable noun help Help is action taken to rescue a person who is in danger. You shout 'help!' when you are in danger in order to attract someone's attention so that they can come and rescue you. 0
- uncountable noun help In computing, help, or the help menu, is a file that gives you information and advice, for example about how to use a particular program. 0
- verb help If you help yourself to something, you serve yourself or you take it for yourself. If someone tells you to help yourself, they are telling you politely to serve yourself anything you want or to take anything you want. 0
- verb help If someone helps themselves to something, they steal it. 0