Aid vs Accommodation - What's the difference?
aid | accommodation |
Help; assistance; succor, relief.
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*(Henry Hallam) (1777-1859)
*:An unconstitutional mode of obtaining aid .
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*:“[…] it is not fair of you to bring against mankind double weapons ! Dangerous enough you are as woman alone, without bringing to your aid those gifts of mind suited to problems which men have been accustomed to arrogate to themselves.”
A helper; an assistant.
*(w) viii. 6
*:It is not good that man should be alone; let us make unto him an aid like unto himself.
Something which helps; a material source of help.
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(lb) An exchequer loan.
(lb) A pecuniary tribute paid by a vassal to his feudal lord on special occasions.
An aide-de-camp, so called by abbreviation.
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To (give) support (to); to further the progress of; to help; to assist.
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(senseid) Lodging in a dwelling or similar living quarters afforded to travellers in hotels or on cruise ships, or prisoners, etc.
(label) Adaptation or adjustment.
# The act of fitting or adapting, or the state of being fitted or adapted; adaptation; adjustment.
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# A convenience, a fitting, something satisfying a need.
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# The adaptation or adjustment of an organism, organ, or part.
# The adjustment of the eye to a change of the distance from an observed object.
(label) Adaptation or adjustment.
# Willingness to accommodate; obligingness.
# Adjustment of differences; state of agreement; reconciliation; settlement; compromise.
#* (rfdate), (1800-1859)
# (label) The application of a writer's language, on the ground of analogy, to something not originally referred to or intended.
#* (rfdate), (William Paley) (1743-1805)
# A loan of money.
# An accommodation bill or note.
# An offer of substitute goods to fulfill a contract, which will bind the purchaser if accepted.
The place where sediments can make, or have made, a sedimentation.
As a proper noun aid
is .As a noun accommodation is
(senseid) lodging in a dwelling or similar living quarters afforded to travellers in hotels or on cruise ships, or prisoners, etc.aid
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) aide, from (etyl) . Cognate include Spanish ayuda, Portuguese ajuda and Italian aiutoNoun
(en noun)The Evolution of Eyeglasses, passage=The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone
Derived terms
* aid climbing * aidful * aidless * aidman * first aid * hearing aidEtymology 2
From (etyl) aidier (modern aider), from (etyl) adiuto'', frequentative of ''adiuvo "to assist".Verb
(en verb)- You speedy helpers Appear and aid me in this enterprise.
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Synonyms
* assist * befriend * bestand * cooperate * help * promote * relieve * succor * support * sustainDerived terms
* aidable * aidance * aiderAnagrams
* ---- ==Võro==accommodation
English
(Webster 1913)Noun
- The organization of the body with accommodation to its functions.
- To come to terms of accommodation .
- Many of those quotations from the Old Testament were probably intended as nothing more than accommodations .