Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A single portion of food.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of aiding or giving help.
- noun That which is served or offered at one time, as food or drink; a portion.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a quantity of food served as part of a meal.
- noun the activity of contributing to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun countable A
portion orserving , especially offood that one takes for oneself, or to which onehelps oneself ; - noun figuratively, countable An
amount or quantity - verb Present participle of
help .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an individual quantity of food or drink taken as part of a meal
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Examples
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The most important step in helping is the parents, they need to really take control of their children, its all their fault.
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The new firm was called Peter Whitesides & Company, the name helping Morris to keep his business interests obscure, as was his practice.
Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010
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The new firm was called Peter Whitesides & Company, the name helping Morris to keep his business interests obscure, as was his practice.
Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010
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The first step to helping is to stop lying yourself.
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Aronchick was one of about 35 Clinton and Obama insiders who attended a dinner last week in Washington aimed at what he characterized as helping the two sides "grope towards unity."
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Like many of us, he works in what they call the helping professions.
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That's what I call helping folks to help themselves.
A Garland for Girls Louisa May Alcott 1860
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Since TPB is not distributing it there actions arent illigal. instead of calling it helping the distribution i would prefer the term helping downloading non NL illigal material. seedme_seedmehard - 08-01 2009
The Pirate Bay - Blog oldpb 2010
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An $800 tax break over two years for a working family is not what I call helping out the working class, if you dont work or you may get a huge tax refund, but people trying to make it get $800 bucks over 2 years. 13 bucks about a check.
unknown title 2009
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An $800 tax break over two years for a working family is not what I call helping out the working class, if you dont work or you may get a huge tax refund, but people trying to make it get $800 bucks over 2 years. 13 bucks about a check.
unknown title 2009
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