Aid vs Remove - What's the difference?
aid | remove | Related terms |
Help; assistance; succor, relief.
:
*(Henry Hallam) (1777-1859)
*:An unconstitutional mode of obtaining aid .
*
*:“[…] 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.
:
*{{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=September-October, author=(Henry Petroski)
, 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.
:
To (give) support (to); to further the progress of; to help; to assist.
* Shakespeare
* {{quote-news, year=2012
, date=May 24
, author=Nathan Rabin
, title=Film: Reviews: Men In Black 3
, work=The Onion AV Club
(label) To move something from one place to another, especially to take away.
:
*(Bible), (w) xix.14:
*:Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour's landmark.
*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=2 # To replace a dish within a course.
#*{{quote-book, year=1959, author=(Georgette Heyer), title=(The Unknown Ajax), chapter=1
, passage=But Richmond
(label) To murder.
To dismiss a batsman.
(label) To discard, set aside, especially something abstract (a thought, feeling, etc.).
*1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , III.viii:
*:Die had she rather in tormenting griefe, / Then any should of falsenesse her reproue, / Or loosenesse, that she lightly did remoue .
*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-21, author=
, volume=189, issue=2, page=10, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= To depart, leave.
*:
*:THenne the kynge dyd doo calle syre Gawayne / syre Borce / syr Lyonel and syre Bedewere / and commaunded them to goo strayte to syre Lucius / and saye ye to hym that hastely he remeue oute of my land / And yf he wil not / bydde hym make hym redy to bataylle and not distresse the poure peple
(label) To change one's residence; to move.
*(William Shakespeare)
*:Till Birnam wood remove to Dunsinane.
*1719 , (Daniel Defoe), (Robinson Crusoe)
*:Now my life began to be so easy that I began to say to myself that could I but have been safe from more savages, I cared not if I was never to remove from the place where I lived.
*1834 , (David Crockett), A Narrative of the Life of , Nebraska 1987, p.20:
*:Shortly after this, my father removed , and settled in the same county, about ten miles above Greenville.
To dismiss or discharge from office.
:
The act of removing something.
* (rfdate) (Milton)
* (rfdate) (Goldsmith)
(archaic) Removing a dish at a meal in order to replace it with the next course, a dish thus replaced, or the replacement.
(British) (at some public schools ) A division of the school, especially the form prior to last
A step or gradation (as in the phrase "at one remove")
* (rfdate) (Addison)
Distance in time or space; interval.
* {{quote-book, year=2007, author=James D. McCallister, title=King's Highway, page=162, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=DnRD6B3PPAoC&pg=PA162
, passage=In his unfortunate absence at this far remove of 2007, Zevon's musicianship and irascible wit are as missed as ever.}}
(dated) The transfer of one's home or business to another place; a move.
* (rfdate)
The act of resetting a horse's shoe.
Aid is a related term of remove.
As a proper noun aid
is .As a verb remove is
(label) to move something from one place to another, especially to take away.As a noun remove is
the act of removing something.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.
citation, page= , passage=Smith is aided in his quest by an elfin, time-jumping alien with psychic powers played by another Coen brothers veteran, A Serious Man star Michael Stuhlbarg. }}
Synonyms
* assist * befriend * bestand * cooperate * help * promote * relieve * succor * support * sustainDerived terms
* aidable * aidance * aiderAnagrams
* ---- ==Võro==remove
English
Verb
(remov)citation, passage=Now that she had rested and had fed from the luncheon tray Mrs. Broome had just removed , she had reverted to her normal gaiety. She looked cool in a grey tailored cotton dress with a terracotta scarf and shoes and her hair a black silk helmet.}}
Karen McVeigh
US rules human genes can't be patented, passage=The US supreme court has ruled unanimously that natural human genes cannot be patented, a decision that scientists and civil rights campaigners said removed a major barrier to patient care and medical innovation.}}
Synonyms
* unstayAntonyms
* (move something from one place to another) settle, place, addDerived terms
* removable * removal * removerNoun
(en noun)- This place should be at once both school and university, not needing a remove to any other house of scholarship.
- And drags at each remove a lengthening chain.
- A freeholder is but one remove from a legislator.
- It is an English proverb that three removes are as bad as a fire.
- (Jonathan Swift)