What is the difference between aid and tenth?
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Help; assistance; succor, relief.
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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.
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*: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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The ordinal form of the number ten.
The person or thing in the tenth position.
One of ten equal parts of a whole.
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, title= (music) The interval between any tone and the tone represented on the tenth degree of the staff above it, as between one of the scale and three of the octave above; the octave of the third.
(UK, legal, historical, in the plural) A temporary aid issuing out of personal property, and granted to the king by Parliament; formerly, the real tenth part of all the movables belonging to the subject.
(Webster 1913)
As nouns the difference between aid and tenth
is that aid is help; assistance; succor, relief while tenth is the person or thing in the tenth position.As a verb aid
is to (give) support (to); to further the progress of; to help; to assist.As a proper noun AID
is acronym of Agency for International Development|lang=en.As an adjective tenth is
the ordinal form of the number ten.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
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English
(wikipedia tenth)Adjective
(-)Synonyms
10th, 10th; (in names of monarchs and popes ) XNoun
(en noun)Boundary problems, passage=Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.}}