help
    n 1: 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" [syn: aid, assist, assistance,
         help]
    2: 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"
       [syn: assistant, helper, help, supporter]
    3: a resource; "visual aids in teaching" [syn: aid,
       assistance, help]
    4: a means of serving; "of no avail"; "there's no help for it"
       [syn: avail, help, service]
    v 1: 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" [syn: help,
         assist, aid]
    2: improve the condition of; "These pills will help the patient"
       [syn: help, aid]
    3: be of use; "This will help to prevent accidents" [syn:
       help, facilitate]
    4: abstain from doing; always used with a negative; "I can't
       help myself--I have to smoke"; "She could not help watching
       the sad spectacle" [syn: help oneself, help]
    5: help to some food; help with food or drink; "I served him
       three times, and after that he helped himself" [syn: serve,
       help]
    6: contribute to the furtherance of; "This money will help the
       development of literacy in developing countries"
    7: take or use; "She helped herself to some of the office
       supplies" [syn: avail, help]
    8: improve; change for the better; "New slipcovers will help the
       old living room furniture"

Help \Help\ (h[e^]lp), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Helped (h[e^]lpt)
   (Obs. imp. Holp (h[=o]lp), p. p. Holpen (h[=o]l"p'n)); p.
   pr. & vb. n. Helping.] [AS. helpan; akin to OS. helpan, D.
   helpen, G. helfen, OHG. helfan, Icel. hj[=a]lpa, Sw. hjelpa,
   Dan. hielpe, Goth. hilpan; cf. Lith. szelpti, and Skr. klp to
   be fitting.]
   1. To furnish with strength or means for the successful
      performance of any action or the attainment of any object;
      to aid; to assist; as, to help a man in his work; to help
      one to remember; -- the following infinitive is commonly
      used without to; as, "Help me scale yon balcony."
      --Longfellow.
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   2. To furnish with the means of deliverance from trouble; as,
      to help one in distress; to help one out of prison. "God
      help, poor souls, how idly do they talk!" --Shak.
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   3. To furnish with relief, as in pain or disease; to be of
      avail against; -- sometimes with of before a word
      designating the pain or disease, and sometimes having such
      a word for the direct object. "To help him of his
      blindness." --Shak.
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            The true calamus helps coughs.        --Gerarde.
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   4. To change for the better; to remedy.
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            Cease to lament for what thou canst not help.
                                                  --Shak.
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   5. To prevent; to hinder; as, the evil approaches, and who
      can help it? --Swift.
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   6. To forbear; to avoid.
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            I can not help remarking the resemblance betwixt him
            and our author.                       --Pope.
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   7. To wait upon, as the guests at table, by carving and
      passing food.
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   To help forward, to assist in advancing.

   To help off, to help to go or pass away, as time; to assist
      in removing. --Locke.

   To help on, to forward; to promote by aid.

   To help out, to aid, as in delivering from a difficulty, or
      to aid in completing a design or task.
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            The god of learning and of light
            Would want a god himself to help him out. --Swift.

   To help over, to enable to surmount; as, to help one over
      an obstacle.

   To help to, to supply with; to furnish with; as, to help
      one to soup.

   To help up, to help (one) to get up; to assist in rising,
      as after a fall, and the like. "A man is well holp up that
      trusts to you." --Shak.

   Syn: To aid; assist; succor; relieve; serve; support;
        sustain; befriend.

   Usage: To Help, Aid, Assist. These words all agree in
          the idea of affording relief or support to a person
          under difficulties. Help turns attention especially to
          the source of relief. If I fall into a pit, I call for
          help; and he who helps me out does it by an act of his
          own. Aid turns attention to the other side, and
          supposes co["o]peration on the part of him who is
          relieved; as, he aided me in getting out of the pit; I
          got out by the aid of a ladder which he brought.
          Assist has a primary reference to relief afforded by a
          person who "stands by" in order to relieve. It denotes
          both help and aid. Thus, we say of a person who is
          weak, I assisted him upstairs, or, he mounted the
          stairs by my assistance. When help is used as a noun,
          it points less distinctively and exclusively to the
          source of relief, or, in other words, agrees more
          closely with aid. Thus we say, I got out of a pit by
          the help of my friend.
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Help \Help\, n. [AS. help; akin to D. hulp, G. h["u]lfe, hilfe,
   Icel. hj[=a]lp, Sw. hjelp, Dan. hielp. See Help, v. t.]
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   1. Strength or means furnished toward promoting an object, or
      deliverance from difficulty or distress; aid; ^; also, the
      person or thing furnishing the aid; as, he gave me a help
      of fifty dollars.
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            Give us help from trouble, for vain is the help of
            man.                                  --Ps. lx. 11.
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            God is . . . a very present help in trouble. --Ps.
                                                  xlvi. 1.
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            Virtue is a friend and a help to nature. --South.
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   2. Remedy; relief; as, there is no help for it.
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   3. A helper; one hired to help another; also, thew hole force
      of hired helpers in any business.
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   4. Specifically, a domestic servant, man or woman. [Local, U.
      S.]
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Help \Help\, v. i.
   To lend aid or assistance; to contribute strength or means;
   to avail or be of use; to assist.
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         A generous present helps to persuade, as well as an
         agreeable person.                        --Garth.
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   To help out, to lend aid; to bring a supply.
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HELP

   1.  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 .