Definition of aid

"aid" in the noun sense

1. aid, assistance, help

a person or thing that is a resource that helps make something easier or possible to do

"visual aids in teaching"

"his job was to give technical assistance over the phone"

2. aid, assist, assistance, help

the activity of contributing to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose

"he gave me an assist with the housework"

"could not walk without assistance"

"rescue party went to their aid"

"offered his help in unloading"

3. aid, economic aid, financial aid, assistance, financial assistance, economic assistance

gift of money or other material help to support a person or cause

"economic assistance to depressed areas"

4. care, attention, aid, tending

the work of providing treatment for or attending to someone or something

"no medical care was required"

"the old car needs constant attention"

"aid" in the verb sense

1. help, assist, aid

give help or assistance be of service

"Everyone helped out during the earthquake"

"Can you help me carry this table?"

"She never helps around the house"

2. help, aid

improve the condition of

"These pills will help the patient"

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Quotations for aid

After the war, aid. [ Greek Proverb ]

O music, sphere descended maid,
Friend of pleasure, wisdom's aid. [ Collins ]

Read nature; nature is a friend to truth;
Nature is Christian, preaches to mankind;
And bids dead matter aid us in our creed. [ Young ]

Her polished limbs,
Veiled in a simple robe, their best attire,
Beyond the pomp of dress; for loveliness
Needs not the foreign aid of ornament,
But is, when unadorned, adorned the most. [ Thomson ]

Wit and judgment often are at strife,
Though meant each other's aid, like man and wife. [ Pope ]

Loveliness needs not the foreign aid of ornament,
But is, when unadorned, adorned the most. [ James Thomson ]

There are, whom heaven has blessed with store of wit,
Yet want as much again to manage it;
For wit and judgment ever are at strife,
Tho' meant each other's aid, like man and wife. [ Pope ]

No Hecuba, by aid of rouge and ceruse, is a Helen made. [ William Cowper ]

The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. [ Scott ]

Those fair ideas to my aid I'll call, and emulate my great original. [ Dryden ]

The saints will aid if men will call: For the blue sky bends over all. [ Coleridge ]

Even from the body's purity, the mind Receives a secret, sympathetic aid. [ Thomson ]

Friendship is given us by nature, , not to favor vice, but to aid virtue. [ Cicero ]

Rarely they rise by virtue's aid who lie plunged in the depth of helpless poverty. [ Juvenal ]

Childish, imbecile carelessness is enough to render any man poor, without the aid of a single positive vice. [ Francis Wayland ]

Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life. [ Pythagoras ]

As long as we work on God's line. He will aid us. When we attempt to work on our own lines. He rebukes us with failure. [ T. L. Cuyler ]

Labor in this country is independent and proud. It has not to ask the patronage of capital, but capital solicits the aid of labor. [ Daniel Webster ]

Let us read with method, and propose to ourselves an end to what our studies may point. The use of reading is to aid us in thinking. [ Gibbon ]

God has made an unerring law for His whole creation, upon principles which, so far as we now know, can never he understood without the aid of mathematics. [ E. D. Mansfield ]

A good library is an anchor to keep a young man from roving, and a helm to aid an old man to gain the greatest possible benefit from what remains of the breeze. [ W. D. Haley ]

A true friend is distinguished in the crisis of hazard and necessity; when the gallantry of his aid may show the worth of his soul and the loyalty of his heart. [ Ennius ]

He who calls in the aid of an equal understanding doubles his own; and he who profits by a superior understanding raises his powers to a level with the height of the superior understanding he unites with. [ Burke ]

The art of navigation is one of the greatest achievements of human genius; man with its aid obtains a knowledge of the globe he inhabits, opens communications with, and extends his field of operations to all its parts. [ A. Brisbane ]

Providence has clearly ordained that the only path fit and salutary for man on earth is the path of persevering fortitude - the unremitting struggle of deliberate self-preparation and humble but active reliance on divine aid. [ B. L. Magoon ]

Genius, with all its pride in its own strength, is but a dependent quality, and cannot put forth its whole powers nor claim all its honors without an amount of aid from the talents and labors of others which it is difficult to calculate. [ Bryant ]

Hate is of all things the mightiest divider, nay, is division itself. To couple hatred, therefore, though wedlock try all her golden links, and borrow to her aid all the iron manacles and fetters of law, it does but seek to twist a rope of sand. [ Milton ]

Poetry is the first and last of all knowledge: it is immortal as the heart of men. If the labors of the men of science should ever create any revolution, direct or indirect, in our condition, and in the impressions which we habitually receive, the poet will then sleep no more than at present; he will be ready to follow the steps of the man of science, not only in those general indirect effects, but he will be at his side, carrying sensation into the midst of the objects of the science itself. The remotest discoveries of the chemist, the botanist, or mineralogist will be as proper objects of the poet's art as any upon which it can be employed, if the time should ever come when these things shall be familiar to us, and the relations under which they are contemplated by the followers of the respective sciences shall be manifestly and palpably material to us as enjoying and suffering beings. If the time should ever come when what is now called science, thus familiarized to men, shall be ready to put on. as it were, a form of flesh and blood, the poet will lend his divine spirit to aid the transfiguration, and will welcome the being thus produced as a dear and genuine inmate of the household of man. [ Wordsworth ]

aid in Scrabble®

The word aid is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 4

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aid in Words With Friends™

The word aid is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 4

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Words containing the sequence aid

Words that start with aid (10 words)

Word Growth involving aid

Shorter words in aid

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Longer words containing aid

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