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Helping

noun

1.

An individual quantity of food or drink taken as part of a meal. Synonyms: portion, serving. "His portion was larger than hers" , "There's enough for two servings each"

Help

verb

(past & past part. helped; obs. past holp, obs. past part. holpen; pres. part. helping)

1.

Give help or assistance; be of service. Synonyms: aid, assist. "Can you help me carry this table?" , "She never helps around the house"

2.

Improve the condition of. Synonym: aid.

3.

Be of use. Synonym: facilitate.

4.

Abstain from doing; always used with a negative. Synonym: help oneself. "She could not help watching the sad spectacle"

5.

Help to some food; help with food or drink. Synonym: serve.

6.

Contribute to the furtherance of.

7.

Take or use. Synonym: avail.

8.

Improve; change for the better.

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"Helping" Quotes from Famous Books

... of necessity and urgent campaigns, he was simple and frugal, toiling with painstaking care in menial offices as much as the rest. He trudged beside the soldiers and ran beside them, not taking a bath nor changing his clothing, but helping them in every labor and choosing absolutely the same food as they had. Often he would send to distinguished champions on the enemy's side and challenge them to single combat. The details of generalship in which he certainly ought to have been most versed ...

— Dio's Rome, Vol VI. • Cassius Dio

... and tangled hair, Rosy cheek beneath the tan, Fearless head on shoulders square— That is Joe, the little man, Helping mother all he can. ...

— Harper's Young People, April 20, 1880 - An Illustrated Weekly • Various

... growled Mr. Bell. 'Don't mind what I say. I'm a hundred years behind the world. But I should say, that the child was getting a better and simpler, and more natural education stopping at home, and helping her mother, and learning to read a chapter in the New Testament every night by her side, than from all ...

— North and South • Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

... he can teach him 'to see himself as others see him'; he can stand by him, when all the world are against him; he can gladden and enlighten him by his presence; he 'can divide his sorrows,' he can 'double his joys;' he can anticipate his wants. He will discover ways of helping him without creating a sense of his own superiority; he will find out his mental trials, but only that he may minister to them. Among true friends jealousy has no place: they do not complain of one another for making new friends, or for not revealing ...

— Lysis • Plato

... with manufacturing districts, but for its situation, it is quite a little town. Compared with the villages situate in the midst of great pastures—where grass is the all-important crop—it is really populous. Almost all the inhabitants find employment in the fields around, helping to produce wheat and barley, oats and roots. It is a little city of the staff of life—a metropolis ...

— Hodge and His Masters • Richard Jefferies

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