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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
helping
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 menu and generous helpings.
important
▪ They felt this was important in helping them to get through the difficulties associated with unemployment.
▪ Supporters like Jim Cummins maintain that heritage language teaching is an important step in helping immigrant students realize their potential.
▪ TECs play an important role in helping companies attain it.
large
▪ Serving large helpings, I ate nothing myself and my abstinence was only another proof of my moral superiority.
▪ Everyone knew that the leader of the party had to be given larger helpings than anyone else.
▪ Menus tend to be Germanic with large helpings of soup, veal or sausage and Rösti potatoes.
▪ The largest national charity helping people with drink, drug and mental health problems.
■ NOUN
child
▪ Practical investigations Practical investigations are central to helping children to express and develop their ideas.
▪ The Duchess is patron of the charity dedicated to helping children and adults with mental disabilities to overcome their handicaps.
▪ It is an entertaining program helping children to add, subtract, multiply and divide quickly and accurately.
hand
▪ But they're frustrated that most of the time, they're forced to rely on a helping hand.
▪ Professionals should take comfort that a helping hand is available if needed.
▪ The one giving the helping hand looked at me and Thorpey but that was all.
▪ He wasn't even offering her a helping hand, she brooded.
▪ A helping hand on the Nfis Slabs.
▪ Today, George is still going strong, giving his son, Robin a helping hand with the ploughing.
▪ The Basques, romantics to a man, believed that Fate would give Biarritz a helping hand.
others
▪ Much students' time is also spent helping others.
▪ Britain is rich in its citizens' willingness to give time, effort and money to helping others.
▪ In the end the Profitboss helps himself by helping others.
people
▪ You get these crackpot ideas about helping people who come along to you with a mournful tale.
▪ Can we develop techniques for helping people to make better forecasts?
▪ The Citizens' Advice Bureaux are used to helping people sort out their debt problems.
▪ She had dedicated her life to helping people and animals.
▪ She said council was helping people by providing mortgages to those who would not normally qualify.
▪ Both were professional people with a vested interest in helping people - a doctor and a Baptist minister.
▪ The largest national charity helping people with drink, drug and mental health problems.
▪ Are there any organisations which specialise in helping people like me?
police
▪ A 19-year old man from the Basildon area was last night helping police with their inquiries at Clacton police station.
▪ Boys quizzed: Four boys were last night helping police with their inquiries into two separate fires in Peterlee.
▪ A man was last night helping police with their inquiries.
pupil
▪ Oral history can be a means of helping pupils to build up a meaningful framework of chronology for the last 80 years.
▪ A structure for reflective thinking For helping pupils towards greater sophistication in their thinking, the following suggestions may be helpful.
teacher
▪ Formative assessment seeks to serve pupils' interests by helping teachers teach more effectively.
▪ By helping teachers understand classroom roles, it enables them to discover for themselves the best ways of fostering co-operative learning.
▪ Central to these were ways of helping teachers become more effective classroom managers - in both initial and in-service training.
▪ By helping teachers to set real-life problems for pupils, employers get a better class of recruit.
■ VERB
aim
▪ Reformed systems of direct support, aimed in particular at helping family farms and crofts.
decide
▪ But the factors influencing ratings given to television for helping people decide how to Vote were different.
develop
▪ Audiocassettes and videocassettes therefore have a powerful potential for helping individuals to develop culturally, socially, and in the religious sphere.
give
▪ The one giving the helping hand looked at me and Thorpey but that was all.
▪ Everyone knew that the leader of the party had to be given larger helpings than anyone else.
▪ The Basques, romantics to a man, believed that Fate would give Biarritz a helping hand.
▪ Even with housed animals they normally gave their husbands a helping hand.
▪ This is often the result of inexperienced people trying to give a helping hand to get the gliders out.
▪ But the factors influencing ratings given to television for helping people decide how to Vote were different.
▪ He spoke to a cook and used to be given second helpings.
lend
▪ Britain's champion in the sport has been lending a helping hand.
▪ Petion, follow them and lend a helping hand.
offer
▪ He wasn't even offering her a helping hand, she brooded.
▪ This may be a piece of work offering straight forward short-term helping around obtaining a service.
▪ On the whole, though, relatively short sentences offer the advantage of helping you to keep your writing clear and understandable.
▪ We can offer you a helping hand.
▪ Virginia Woolf thought him charming, especially because he offered her extra helpings of chocolate roll.
▪ Ideal Home is offering you a helping hand.
▪ The Natural Selection offers a helping hand to extend the spirit of a free world.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a helping hand
▪ A few guidelines are all that is needed: Be considerate of others, give a helping hand, be safe.
▪ Britain's champion in the sport has been lending a helping hand.
▪ Everyone had a view: The proposal was an insult, a helping hand, a roadblock, a learning aid.
▪ He wasn't even offering her a helping hand, she brooded.
▪ People do need a helping hand.
▪ The Basques, romantics to a man, believed that Fate would give Biarritz a helping hand.
▪ Today, George is still going strong, giving his son, Robin a helping hand with the ploughing.
▪ Which makes it an excellent jumping off point if you need a helping hand.
sb is helping the police with their enquiries
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Anyone want a second helping?
▪ He held out his bowl for another helping.
▪ He took a huge helping of potatoes.
▪ She took another helping of pie when she thought no one was looking.
▪ They had turkey and stuffing topped off with large helpings of mashed potatoes.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Charles Aught has the best working relations with Donne, Roy Chase is the best at helping people, and so on.
▪ I muttered something about helping and followed her out.
▪ Our newly created marketing team has identified customer requirements in major markets as well as helping us to redevelop our corporate image.
▪ Pip has found contentment also by helping Herbert with is life by find and paying for him to start a job.
▪ She had dedicated her life to helping people and animals.
▪ The largest national charity helping people with drink, drug and mental health problems.
▪ The Women's Cooperative Guild played a decisive role in helping to secure for Labour the newly-enfranchised female vote.
▪ This makes it much easier to integrate teaching and assessment, as well as helping us to build up a rapport with our trainees.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
helping

helping \helping\ n.

  1. a quantity of food served as part of a meal.

    Syn: portion, serving.

  2. the activity of contributing to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose.

    Syn: aid, assistance, help.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
helping

"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.

Wiktionary
helping

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)

WordNet
helping

n. an individual quantity of food or drink taken as part of a meal; "the helpings were all small"; "his portion was larger than hers"; "there's enough for two servings each" [syn: portion, serving]

Wikipedia

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.