Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A single portion of food.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of aiding or giving help.
- n. That which is served or offered at one time, as food or drink; a portion.
Wiktionary
- n. countable A portion or serving, especially of food that one takes for oneself, or to which one helps oneself;
- n. figuratively, countable An amount or quantity
- v. present participle of help.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. a quantity of food served as part of a meal.
- n. the activity of contributing to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose.
WordNet 3.0
- n. an individual quantity of food or drink taken as part of a meal
Examples
“The most important step in helping is the parents, they need to really take control of their children, its all their fault.”
“The new firm was called Peter Whitesides & Company, the name helping Morris to keep his business interests obscure, as was his practice.”
“The first step to helping is to stop lying yourself.”
“Aronchick was one of about 35 Clinton and Obama insiders who attended a dinner last week in Washington aimed at what he characterized as helping the two sides "grope towards unity.”
“Like many of us, he works in what they call the helping professions.”
“That's what I call helping folks to help themselves.”
“Since TPB is not distributing it there actions arent illigal. instead of calling it helping the distribution i would prefer the term helping downloading non NL illigal material. seedme_seedmehard - 08-01 2009”
“If anyone is interested in helping out, please send me a private message.”
“To Ben and other people who may have an interest in helping out Angel with transportation to medical appointments, an orphan at Casa Hogar:”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘helping’.
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POL - What is Mitt talking about?
Key terms from Mitt Romney's election campaign
good and generous..., hard fought election, go back to work, optimistic and po..., confident in the ..., optimism, uniquely American, nation of immigrants, want a better life, life in that plac..., pursuit of the ri..., richness of this ... and 369 more...
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EU Buzz - Lisbon Treaty
All words of the Lisbon Treaty
(Persons' names, foreign and grammatical words have been eliminated, MWEs have been split up into individual words. Capitalization has been retained if r...health, follow, condition, meeting, minister, beginning, chapter, information, language, remain, covered, respect and 2614 more...
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Tunie: Helplessly Hoping
One of the most attractively alliterative, evanescently evocative and hauntingly melodic tunes ever written. By Stephen Stills.
Helplessly Hoping, Her Harlequin Hovers nearby...awaiting ...lost, linger, lady, loose, lying, love, cost, confusion, certain, something, see, stairway and 17 more...
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