assist
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
assist/əˈsɪst/
▶verb help by doing a share of work or by providing money or information. ▶noun chiefly N. Amer.
- 1 an act of helping, especially by providing money.
- 2 (chiefly in ice hockey, basketball, or baseball) an act of touching the ball in a play in which a teammate scores or an opposing batter is put out.
– derivatives
assister noun,
assistive adjective.
assister noun,
assistive adjective.
– origin ME: from OFr. assister, from L. assistere ‘take one's stand by’.
'assist' also found in these Oxford entries:
abet
- Advocate Depute
- auxiliary
- best man
- biological
- cardinal vowel
- coadjutor
- coastguard
- companion
- courier
- deliver
- disposal
- electric eel
- forceps
- glasses
- graph paper
- hand
- key
- liaise
- marked
- midwife
- model
- packing
- postcode
- power-assisted
- prompt
- prop
- radiography
- respirate
- secretary
- sergeant major
- service
- spring
- subvent
- subvention
- symbolic logic
- toilet
- tracer
- ventouse
