Aid vs Avail - What's the difference?
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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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, magazine=(American Scientist), title= (lb) An historical subsidy granted to the crown by Parliament for an extraordinary purpose, such as a war effort.
(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.
* Shakespeare
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, date=May 24
, author=Nathan Rabin
, title=Film: Reviews: Men In Black 3
, work=The Onion AV Club
(transitive, often, reflexive) To turn to the advantage of.
To be of service to.
To promote; to assist.
To be of use or advantage; to answer or serve the purpose; to have strength, force, or efficacy sufficient to accomplish the object.
* Sir Walter Scott
To provide; to make available.
* {{quote-news, 2004, November 16, Nik Ogbulie, Decongesting the Banking Floors, This Day
, passage=With this initiative, Valucard becomes an open system that is not limited to point of sale (POS) transactions, but now avails cash to its holders in various locations nationwide.}}
(lb) Benefit; value, profit; advantage toward success.
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*:I shal take the aduenture sayd Balen that god wille ordeyne me / but the swerd ye shalle not haue at this tyme by the feythe of my body / ye shalle repente hit within short tyme sayd the damoysel/ For I wold haue the swerd more for your auaylle than for myne / for I am passyng heuy for your sake
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*:hardy Citizenssticke not to sacrifice their honours and consciences, as those of old, their lives, for their Countries availe and safety.
*{{quote-book, 1895, (Andrew Lang),
, passage=So this friar, unworthy as he was of his holy calling, had me at an avail on every side, nor do I yet see what I could do but obey him, as I did.}}
Effect in achieving a goal or aim; purpose, use (now usually in negative constructions).
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*:Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out. Indeed, a nail filed sharp is not of much avail as an arrowhead; you must have it barbed, and that was a little beyond our skill.
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*:At half-time, Poyet replaced Wes Brown with Liam Bridcutt in the heart of defence and sent out the rest of the players to atone for their first-half mistakes. To no avail .
*(Richard Henry Stoddard) (1825–1903)
*:the avails of their own industry
Effort; striving.
*{{quote-book, 1613, (Thomas Campion), chapter=Songs of Mourning, , year_published=1907, page=125, title=
, passage=And ev'n now, though he breathless lies, his sails / Are struggling with the winds, for our avails / T'explore a passage hid from human tract, / Will fame him in the enterprise or fact.}}
An advertising slot or package.
*{{quote-book, 1994, Barry L. Sherman, page=353, title=
, passage=The salesperson at an affiliate TV station might prepare an avail which offers two weeks of spots in early and late news
*{{quote-book, 2004, Walter S. Ciciora et al., page=123, title=
, passage=At an avail , the ad server plays out the MPEG-2 audio/video elementary streams.}}
A press avail.
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Non-binding notice of availability for work.
(lb) A readily available stock of oil.
*{{quote-book, 1967, title=
, passage=Total crude oil avails (production plus purchases) of even highly "self-sufficient" refiners are far greater than their reported refinery inputs.}}
Aid is a related term of avail.
As a proper noun aid
is .As a verb avail is
(transitive|often|reflexive) to turn to the advantage of.As a noun avail is
(lb) benefit; value, profit; advantage toward success.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==avail
English
Verb
(en verb)- I availed myself of the opportunity.
- Artifices will not avail the sinner in the day of judgment.
- (Alexander Pope)
- The plea in court must avail .
- ''This scheme will not avail.
- Medicines will not avail to halt the disease.
- Words avail very little with me, young man.
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Antonyms
* disavailDerived terms
* available * disavailNoun
(en noun)A Monk of Fife
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Poetical Works (in English) of Thomas Campion
Telecommunications Management: Broadcasting/cable and the New Technologies, isbn=0070566984
Modern Cable Television Technology: Video, Voice, and Data Communications, isbn=1558608281
Interstate Compact on Oil and Gas (10th Extension), page=95