Crossword clues for assistant
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Assistant \As*sist"ant\, n.
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One who, or that which, assists; a helper; an auxiliary; a means of help.
Four assistants who his labor share.
--Pope.Rhymes merely as assistants to memory.
--Mrs. Chapone. An attendant; one who is present.
--Dryden.
Assistant \As*sist"ant\, a. [Cf. F. assistant, p. pr. of assister.]
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Helping; lending aid or support; auxiliary.
Genius and learning . . . are mutually and greatly assistant to each other.
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(Mil.) Of the second grade in the staff of the army; as, an assistant surgeon. [U.S.]
Note: In the English army it designates the third grade in any particular branch of the staff.
--Farrow.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., assistent "one who helps or aids another," from Middle French assistent, adjective and noun, properly present participle of assister (see assist (v.)).
mid-15c., "helpful, of assistance," from Middle French assistent (see assistant (n.)).
Wiktionary
a. 1 Having a subordinate or auxiliary position. 2 Helping; lending aid or support; auxiliary. n. 1 (context obsolete English) Someone who is present; a bystander, a witness. 2 A person who assists or helps someone else. 3 (context British English) sales assistant. 4 A software tool that provides assistance in some task.
WordNet
adj. of or relating to a person who is subordinate to another [syn: adjunct]
Wikipedia
Assistant may refer to:
- Assistant (by Speaktoit), a virtual assistant app for smartphones
- Assistant (software), a software tool to assist in computer configuration
- Assistant (Google), an upcoming virtual assistant by Google
- The Assistant (TV series), an MTV reality show
- ST Assistant, a British tugboat
Assistant is an intelligent personal assistant application for mobile devices developed by Speaktoit. Originally launched in October 2011 for the Android platform (although available in beta in March 2011), Assistant has since come to iOS and Windows Phones. Assistant uses natural language understanding and voice recognition to interact with its users and is capable of having clarifying conversations. Unlike Apple's Siri, Assistant comes in the form of a customizable, cartoonish avatar.
Assistant has over 13+ million users in 11 different languages as of October 2014. They are currently the No. 6 top grossing app in the Lifestyle category on Google Play in the US.
The New York Times recognized Assistant as one of the top 10 Android Apps of 2011.
Usage examples of "assistant".
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His earnest brown eyes seemed to reflect her pain as she and her husband passed on, to her young adviser Saric, and his assistant, Incomo.
Monday As I prepared to host the bioterrorism roundtable in Nashville, a Florida man already had died of inhalational anthrax, and an assistant to NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw had been diagnosed with skin, or cutaneous, anthrax.
White and his able young assistant surgeons had found antiscorbutic herbs and fruits growing wild, to which all but the most obstinate cases eventually yielded, and these were now being grown in the hospital garden.
Benno Cohen of the ZVfD had been appointed assistant to their director, conductor Kurt Singer, but that was not enough: the performers were still really cultural assimilationists, and in October 1935 Kareski, who had nothing to do with the arts, was appointed to a more senior position than Singer, and Cohen was dismissed.
Will Gately was United States Assistant Secretary of Defence for Astronautics, and a former astronaut.
Lewis found their level of paranoia encouraging, and had actually started to relax a little when a shop assistant suddenly ran forward out of nowhere with an autograph pad in his hand that for one heart-stopping moment looked very like a bomb.
All of the negotiations were done in my persona of a print shop assistant commissioned by the fictitious autor of the play.
Ahf Noot and four of his assistants entered the first section of the operating theatre and remained there several hours where they were subjected to waves of bactericides and air saturated with antiseptic emanations until their very breath became sterilized.
Maud, however, without a hat of any sort, her long, luxuriant, silken, golden tresses covering her shoulders, and occasionally veiling her warm, rich cheek, was exercising with a battledore, keeping Little Smash, now increased in size to quite fourteen stone, rather actively employed as an assistant, whenever the exuberance of her own spirits caused her to throw the plaything beyond her reach.
Colonel Louis Johnson, the rather bellicose former Assistant Secretary of War whom Roosevelt had despatched as his special envoy to India, gained the same impression.
The last act before the curtain call by all the performers was a magician, a magnificent magician with two bespangled women assistants whom he kept making disappear and reappear in various sections of the audience, high above on a rafter, or inside one of the four locked boxes on a raised platform.
Lansing, the assistant brewmaster, was among the last to arrive, heavily bundled in cap, bandanna, and peacoat.
There were construction workers and a second-form teacher, an assistant brewmaster and a tour guide.
Assistant Curator, Gordon Pringle, watches the flames licking around the brutalist concrete terraces of the South Bank Arts Centre opposite and tells himself grimly, better them than us.