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Helping   /hˈɛlpɪŋ/   Listen
Helping

noun
1.
An individual quantity of food or drink taken as part of a meal.  Synonyms: portion, serving.  "His portion was larger than hers" , "There's enough for two servings each"



Help

verb
(past & past part. helped; obs. past holp, obs. past part. holpen; pres. part. helping)
1.
Give help or assistance; be of service.  Synonyms: aid, assist.  "Can you help me carry this table?" , "She never helps around the house"
2.
Improve the condition of.  Synonym: aid.
3.
Be of use.  Synonym: facilitate.
4.
Abstain from doing; always used with a negative.  Synonym: help oneself.  "She could not help watching the sad spectacle"
5.
Help to some food; help with food or drink.  Synonym: serve.
6.
Contribute to the furtherance of.
7.
Take or use.  Synonym: avail.
8.
Improve; change for the better.



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"Helping" Quotes from Famous Books



... "The Damnation," is filled with "The Resurrection." Above, the two mighty Archangels sound their trumpets, and the dead wake, and break through the crust of the grey earth below. They stand about embracing each other, or helping each other to rise, or gazing with rapture up at the Archangels, who, with fluttering draperies and ribbons, and great spread wings of purple and peacock-green, stand, surrounded by little shadowy cherubs, in the gold-embossed ...
— Luca Signorelli • Maud Cruttwell

... rumbled along towards Coblenz with many soldiers walking between. Close by a railway line ran parallel with the road and continuous trains slowly crawled, hissing and shrieking like wounded things. I plodded along the tree-screened roadside, the cloudy darkness of the night helping my security. And all through that night and early morning silent tramping figures passed along—all going in ...
— The Sequel - What the Great War will mean to Australia • George A. Taylor

... time of the question, but what was next apparent was that it had seen them no further. The shopman, who had not stirred, stood there in his patience—which, his mute intensity helping, had almost the effect of an ironic comment. The Prince moved to the glass door and, his back to the others, as with nothing more to contribute, looked—though not less patiently—into the street. Then the shopman, for Charlotte, momentously broke silence. "You've seen, disgraziatamente, signora ...
— The Golden Bowl • Henry James

... come and see you in a few days, dearest," he said. "Though you are bound to that man by the cruel sport of chance, you still belong to me. There can be no harm in my helping you. And may God bless and keep ...
— The Slave of Silence • Fred M. White

... "I should be helping her," thought Angelica. "She is ill-fed, overworked, and weakly, while I am pampered and strong; but there is no rational way for me to do it. If I took her home with me and kept her in luxurious idleness ...
— The Heavenly Twins • Madame Sarah Grand


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