Definition of helps

"helps" in the noun sense

1. 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"

2. assistant, helper, help, supporter

a person who contributes to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose

"my invaluable assistant"

"they hired additional help to finish the work"

3. 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"

4. avail, help, service

a means of serving

"of no avail"

"there's no help for it"

"helps" 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"

3. help, facilitate

be of use

"This will help to prevent accidents"

4. help oneself, help

abstain from doing always used with a negative

"I can't help myself

5. serve, help

help to some food help with food or drink

"I served him three times, and after that he helped himself"

6. help

contribute to the furtherance of

"This money will help the development of literacy in developing countries"

7. avail, help

take or use

"She helped herself to some of the office supplies"

8. help

improve change for the better

"New slipcovers will help the old living room furniture"

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Quotations for helps

God helps the brave. [ Schiller ]

Fortune helps the bold. [ Virgil ]

Music helps not the toothache. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

All is not at hand that helps. [ Proverb ]

God helps us not; no emperor can. [ Friedrich Schiller ]

God helps those who help themselves. [ Algernon Sidney ]

Art helps Nature, and Experience Art. [ Proverb ]

He that helps the evil hurts the good. [ Proverb ]

When resolution hath prepared the will;
It wants no helps to further any ill. [ Mirror for Magistrates ]

He who greases his wheels helps his oxen. [ Proverb ]

One grain fills not a sack, but helps his fellows. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

No grace can save any man unless he helps himself. [ Ward Beecher ]

Chance never helps those who do not help themselves. [ Sophocles ]

Heaven never helps the man who will not help himself. [ Sophocles ]

He is my friend that helps me, and not he that pities me. [ Proverb ]

Wit sometimes helps us to play the fool with more confidence. [ Proverb ]

It is better for the man whom God helps than for him who rises early. [ Cervantes ]

An individual helps not; only he who unites with many at the proper time. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Circumstance, that unspiritual god and miscreator, makes and helps along our coming evils. [ Byron ]

A serene face helps to make a serene soul; a smile on the lips induces a smile in the heart. [ George Hodges ]

No evil is felt till it comes, and when it comes no counsel helps. Wisdom is always too early and too late. [ Rückert ]

Logic helps us to strip off the outward disguise of things, and to behold and judge of them in their own nature. [ I. Watts ]

You have to go below the surface of words and actually feel them. This helps you choose the just-right word for your copy. [ Kathy Kleidermacher, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Copywriter's Words And Phrases ]

Neither the naked hand nor the understanding, left to itself, can do much; the work is accomplished by instruments and helps, of which the need is not less for the understanding than the hand. [ Bacon ]

Biographies of great, but especially of good men are most instructive and useful as helps, guides, and incentives to others. Some of the best are almost equivalent to gospels, - teaching high living, high thinking, and energetic action, for their own and the world's good. [ Samuel Smiles ]

We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinner time; keep back the tears, and look a little pale about the lips, and in answer to inquiries say, Oh, nothing! Pride helps us; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts, not to hurt others. [ George Eliot ]

It is frivolous to fix pedantically the date of particular inventions. They have all been invented over and over fifty times, Man is the arch machine, of which all these shifts drawn from himself are toy models. He helps himself on each emergency by copying or duplicating his own structure, just so far as the need is. [ Emerson ]

Poetry reveals to us the loveliness of nature, brings back the freshness of youthful feeling, revives the relish of simple pleasures, keeps unquenched the enthusiasm which warmed the springtime of our being, refines youthful love, strengthens our interest in human nature, by vivid delineations of its tenderest and softest feelings, and, through the brightness of its prophetic visions, helps faith to lay hold on the future life. [ Channing ]

helps in Scrabble®

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

Scrabble® Letter Score: 10

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters helps:

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helps in Words With Friends™

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

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 11

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters helps:

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Words within the letters of helps

2 letter words in helps (4 words)

3 letter words in helps (3 words)

4 letter words in helps (1 word)

5 letter words in helps (1 word)

helps + 1 blank (3 words)

Words containing the sequence helps

Words that start with helps (3 words)

Words with helps in them (1 word)

Words that end with helps (3 words)

Word Growth involving helps

Shorter words in helps

el help

he help

Longer words containing helps

helpsheet helpsheets

selfhelps

whelps