Aide vs Amide - What's the difference?
aide | amide |
An assistant.
(military) An officer who acts as assistant to a more senior one; an aide-de-camp.
(organic chemistry) Any derivative of an oxoacid in which the hydroxyl group has been replaced with an amino or substituted amino group; especially such derivatives of a carboxylic acid, the carboxamides.
(inorganic chemistry) Any ionic derivative of ammonia in which a hydrogen atom has been replaced with a metal cation.