help:
–verb (used with object)
1. to give or provide what is necessary to accomplish a task or satisfy a need; contribute strength or means to; render assistance to; cooperate effectively with; aid; assist: He planned to help me with my work. Let me help you with those packages.
2. to save; rescue; succor: Help me, I'm falling!
3. to make easier or less difficult; contribute to; facilitate: The exercise of restraint is certain to help the achievement of peace.
4. to be useful or profitable to: Her quick mind helped her career.
5. to refrain from; avoid (usually prec. by can or cannot): He can't help doing it.
6. to relieve or break the uniformity of: Small patches of bright color can help an otherwise dull interior.
7. to relieve (someone) in need, sickness, pain, or distress.
8. to remedy, stop, or prevent: Nothing will help my headache.
9. to serve food to at table (usually fol. by to): Help her to salad.
10. to serve or wait on (a customer), as in a store.
–verb (used without object)
11. to give aid; be of service or advantage: Every little bit helps.
–noun
12. the act of helping; aid or assistance; relief or succor.
13. a person or thing that helps: She certainly is a help in an emergency.
14. a hired helper; employee.
15. a body of such helpers.
16. a domestic servant or a farm laborer.
17. means of remedying, stopping, or preventing: The thing is done, and there is no help for it now.
18. Older Use. helping (def. 2).
–interjection
19. (used as an exclamation to call for assistance or to attract attention.)
—Verb phrase
20. help out, to assist in an effort; be of aid to: Her relatives helped out when she became ill.
—Idioms
21. cannot or can't help but, to be unable to refrain from or avoid; be obliged to: Still, you can't help but admire her.
22. help oneself to,
a. to serve oneself; take a portion of: Help yourself to the cake.
b. to take or use without asking permission; appropriate: They helped themselves to the farmer's apples. Help yourself to any of the books we're giving away.
23. so help me, (used as a mild form of the oath “so help me God”) I am speaking the truth; on my honor: That's exactly what happened, so help me.
Synonyms: advice, aid, assist, avail, balm*, benefit, comfort, cooperation, corrective, cure, guidance, hand, helping hand, lift*, maintenance, nourishment, remedy, service, succor, support, sustenance, use, utility
Antonyms: blockage, check, counteraction, harm, hindrance, hurt, injury, obstruction, stop
Help is any form of assistance.
Help may also refer to:
Help (British TV series), a comedy series
"Help" (Buffy episode), a Buffy the Vampire Slayer television episode
Help (command), a shell command
Help (Dutch TV series), a drama series
"Help" (song), a single by Lloyd Banks
Help (video), a documentary video by Ximena Cuevas
H.E.L.P., an American television drama series
The Help Album, a musical compilation album to benefit the War Child charity
Help! may refer to:
Help! (film), a 1965 film directed by Richard Lester starring the Beatles
Help! (album), the 1965 Beatles album which includes songs from the film
"Help!" (song), the number one single and theme song of the film
Help! (magazine), from the creator of Mad Magazine
Help!! (manga), a Japanese manga
HELP may be an acronym for:
Heat escape lessening position, a way to position oneself to reduce heat loss in cold water
Higher Education Loan Programme, a government interest-free loan scheme to help students pay tertiary education fees in Australia
Hydrologic Evaluation of Landfill Performance, a numerical model initially developed by the United States Environmental Protection Agency
United States Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, a United States Senate Committee
[edit]See also
Help me (disambiguation)
Call for help - actually yelling the word "help!"
9-1-1 - the emergency phone number in North America
Crisis hotline - Article on crisis hotlines and partial list of them.
List of counseling topics
Charitable organization - organizations that help people, usually for free.
Distress signal - another way to call for help.
Mayday
SOS
Crisis - a stressful or dangerous situation in which one or more persons may need help.
Emergency - a situation which poses an immediate risk to health, life, property or environment. A type of crisis.
Homework help service - program in which tutors are made available to assist with a student's homework. Many libraries host homework help services.
Online help, information delivered through computer software.