to help

Definition von to help im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch: assist
Would you please assist John with learning English.; Correction of deficits, as by psychological counseling or medication or social support or remedial training
He's a real road-rager. / Yup, he really needs help, maybe anger management..; A person employed to help in the maintenance of a house
The help is coming round this morning to clean.; To provide assistance
She was struggling with the groceries, so I offered to help.; A person or persons who provide assistance with some task
He was a great help to me when I was moving house.; To contribute in some way to
The white paint on the walls helps make the room look brighter.; To avoid; to prevent; to refrain from; to restrain (oneself). Usually used in nonassertive contexts with can
Are they going to beat us? —Not if I can help it!.; To change for the better; to remedy; If you help someone, you make it easier for them to do something, for example by doing part of the work for them or by giving them advice or money. He has helped to raise a lot of money You can of course help by giving them a donation directly If you're not willing to help me, I'll find somebody who will. Help is also a noun. Thanks very much for your help Always ask the pharmacist for help = assistance; {f} assist, aid; rescue; ease, relieve; improve, fix; avoid, refrain; serve, wait on; To lend aid or assistance; to contribute strength or means; to avail or be of use; to assist; To furnish with the means of deliverance from trouble; as, to help one in distress; to help one out of prison; To furnish with relief, as in pain or disease; to be of avail against; sometimes with of before a word designating the pain or disease, and sometimes having such a word for the direct object; To wait upon, as the guests at table, by carving and passing food; To prevent; to hinder; as, the evil approaches, and who can help it? To forbear; to avoid; {v} to assist, support, supply, heal, cure, avoid; {n} assistance, support, relief, remedy, cure; {i} assistance, aid; hired laborer, domestic servant; group of servants or workers; means of fixing or changing something; If you say that something helps, you mean that it makes something easier to do or get, or that it improves a situation to some extent. The right style of swimsuit can help to hide, minimise or emphasise what you want it to Building more motorways and by-passes will help the environment by reducing pollution and traffic jams in towns and cities Understanding these rare molecules will help chemists to find out what is achievable I could cook your supper, though, if that would help; be of use; "This will help to prevent accidents"; A helper; one hired to help another; also, thew hole force of hired helpers in any business; Opens the help system which you have already found!; You can type HELP at any time to ask what options you have, or to ask what any command does The character HELP is really C-h See Help; A program that gives you information on how to use Windows and will assist you with any problems you may have as well; Homebuyer Education Learning Program; an educational program from the FHA that counsels people about the homebuying process; HELP covers topics like budgeting, finding a home, getting a loan, and home maintenance; in most cases, completion of the program may entitle the homebuyer to a reduced initial FHA mortgage insurance premium-from 2 25% to 1 75% of the home purchase price; In most Windows applications, the Help option on the menu bar displays searchable online help In Netscape, the Help option acts as a hotlink to Web pages at the Netscape Web site Users running Netscape without an Internet connection are unable to access these files; a person who contributes to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose; "my invaluable assistant"; "they hired additional help to finish the work"; be of use; "This will help to prevent accidents; Not sure about computer or Internet terms? Click on the word "Help" to the left for brief explanations of terms and directions You may do this now, or at anytime you see the word Help underlined throughout this web site; a means of serving; "of no avail"; "there's no help for it"; If someone helps themselves to something, they steal it. Has somebody helped himself to some film star's diamonds? see also helping; To furnish with strength or means for the successful performance of any action or the attainment of any object; to aid; to assist; as, to help a man in his work; to help one to remember; the following infinitive is commonly used without to; as, "Help me scale yon balcony; Someone who says they need help means they need their hand to improve in order to have a chance at the pot Or that they've just pawned their pacemaker to fund a few more hours of poker Use context to figure out which; improve the condition of; "These pills will help the patient" improve; change for the better; "New slipcovers will help the old living room furniture" give help or assistance; be of service; "Everyone helped out during the earthquake"; "Can you help me carry this table?"; "She never helps around the house" contribute to the furtherance of; "This money will help the development of literacy in developing countries" be of use; "This will help to prevent accidents; Specifically, a domestic servant, man or woman; A window which has explanations and tips about your operating system or application; contribute to the furtherance of; "This money will help the development of literacy in developing countries"; A feature in most application software providing options that typically include an index, a glossary, and a search feature to locate reference information about specific commands; vagueness If you say you can't help thinking something, you are expressing your opinion in an indirect way, often because you think it seems rude. I can't help feeling that this may just be another of her schemes; An online system of information about various commands and programs, available on all of our mainframe interactive systems, and also internally in many interactive software packages; abstain from doing; always used with a negative; "I can't help myself--I have to smoke"; "She could not help watching the sad spectacle"; Homebuyer Education Learning Program; an educational program from the FHA that counsels people about the home buying process; HELP covers topics like budgeting, finding a home, getting a loan, and home maintenance; in most cases, completion of the program may entitle the homebuyer to a reduced initial FHA mortgage insurance premium-from 2 25% to 1 75% of the home purchase price; improve the condition of; "These pills will help the patient"; Users in need of help can often issue a command such as "?" to access on-line help and tutorial systems; Strength or means furnished toward promoting an object, or deliverance from difficulty or distress; aid; ^; also, the person or thing furnishing the aid; as, he gave me a help of fifty dollars; To avoid; to prevent; to refrain from; to restrain (oneself). Usually used in the negative with can; In Workflows, you can get Help by clicking on the Help command at the top of the wincow You can choose context help, which will display Help about the Wizard you are currently looking at, or allow you to look at an alphabetical list of topics Help for each icon is available by right-clicking on an icon and choosing Help from the menu that pops up; I/we desperately need assistance!; To provide assistance to (someone or something); If you say that someone or something has been a help or has been some help, you mean that they have helped you to solve a problem. The books were not much help; If you help yourself to something, you serve yourself or you take it for yourself. If someone tells you to help yourself, they are telling you politely to serve yourself anything you want or to take anything you want. There's bread on the table. Help yourself Just help yourself to leaflets; You can type HELP at any time to ask what options you have, or to ask what any command does HELP is really Control-h See section Help; HELP is the Emacs name for C-h or F1 You can type HELP at any time to ask what options you have, or to ask what any command does See section Help; Help is action taken to rescue a person who is in danger. You shout `help!' when you are in danger in order to attract someone's attention so that they can come and rescue you. He was screaming for help `Help!' I screamed, turning to run; help to some food; help with food or drink; "I served him three times, and after that he helped himself"; Did you learn anything from these pages? Did they help you? If so, we are grateful and hope that you will be grateful also Advertising only pays for a small percentage of the cost of maintaining this Web site If you learned something and wish to help you can use the Amazon com PayPage button below to send a small payment in return Thank you in advance if you choose to do this; Brings up help screens containing information about the Electronic Purchase Request System Accessible from: the Electronic Purchase Request Menu Screen; " To furnish with the means of deliverance from trouble; as, to help one in distress; to help one out of prison; If you help someone go somewhere or move in some way, you give them support so that they can move more easily. Martin helped Tanya over the rail She helped her sit up in bed so she could hold her baby; HELP is the Emacs name for C-h or F1 You can type HELP at any time to ask what options you have, or to ask what any command does See section G Help; On the menu bar, click on Help and then Reader Guide Here you can learn more about the more sophisticated features of the program: advanced search and browse, print, annotate, bookmark, etc; take or use; "She helped herself to some of the office supplies"; improve; change for the better; "New slipcovers will help the old living room furniture"; the activity of contributing to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose; "he gave me an assist with the housework"; "could not walk without assistance"; "rescue party went to their aid"; "offered his help in unloading"; If someone or something is of help, they make a situation easier or better. Can I be of help to you?; A label given to a PushButton in some DialogBoxes that performs the action of providing help for the DialogBox; If you can't help the way you feel or behave, you cannot control it or stop it happening. You can also say that you can't help yourself. I can't help feeling sorry for the poor man; give help or assistance; be of service; "Everyone helped out during the earthquake"; "Can you help me carry this table?"; "She never helps around the house"; Action given to provide assistance; aid; A software tool that provides helpful information about how to properly accomplish a task It provides both a topical index and a keyword search feature Help is available for every major commercial software program