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helping

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Word definitions for helping in dictionaries

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"aid, assistance," late 13c., from present participle of help (v.). Meaning “serving food” is from 1824; that of “a portion of food” is from 1883.

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
helping \helping\ n. a quantity of food served as part of a meal. Syn: portion, serving. the activity of contributing to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose. Syn: aid, assistance, help.

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES generous amount/helping/measure etc ▪ a generous helping of pasta COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE generous ▪ The idea is to introduce a generous helping of loose feed in the first instance. ▪ Bar meals with good ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context countable English) A portion or serving, especially of food that one takes for oneself, or to which one help oneself; 2 (context figurative countable English) An amount or quantity vb. (present participle of help English)

Usage examples of helping.

Dura and Farr helping Adda, the three Human Beings made their way to Muub and his companions.

I shot up into the aetheric and looked for the other Weather Warden who was supposed to be helping us.

When the task of helping was done, then Agassiz skilfully came to the point of his business--the skeletons--and this so dexterously and sympathetically, that the men were, it seemed, ready to turn over the living as well as the dead beasts for his service.

The holy Mael felt a profound sadness that the first clothes put upon a daughter of Alca should have betrayed the penguin modesty instead of helping it.

Wolfgang had formed a project for helping the Webers by undertaking a journey to Italy in company with Aloysia and her father, with the object of writing an opera in which Aloysia should appear as prima donna.

After helping clean dishes and kitchen, Lena retired to the couch with a paperback and Andi closeted herself in the bedroom to phone her mom.

He was helping himself to some gazelle, which sent forth an appetising odour, and Ouardi was proudly pouring out for him the first glass of blithely winking champagne.

If Uncle Duck was really helping me with my automatic writing, Vicki was going to have to prove it.

He had learned how to enjoy being on top of the heap, and when he was between bands, he was content to earn a good living playing sessions or acting as a side-man on tours, helping to fill up the musical sound without getting in the way of the current stars.

It will be remembered that women took a prominent part in the destruction of the Bastile, helping, indeed, to tear down that odious structure with their own hands, the fall of which, it is well known, brought in the classic Greek and republican simplicity, the subtle meaning of the change being expressed in French gowns.

Fifteen minutes later Father Berrendo was helping Graciela out of the hospital door into the warm sunlight.

Father Berrendo was helping Graciela out of the hospital door into the warm sunlight.

I set to helping Troop Guide Bikaner, trying to appear as if I were in command, but actually trying to impede him as little as possible.

We know the bioscience people in stasis at Scripps have ways of helping us.

Hubble had his back to them, and the tall Blackshirt, the one called McGruder, was helping him remove his shirt, exposing a thin, bruised arm and a hand that was now darkened almost to the wrist.