Assist vs Assistant - What's the difference?
assist | assistant |
(label) To stand (at a place) or to (an opinion).
(label) To attend
* 1967 , The Rev. Loren Gavitt (ed.), Saint Augustine's Prayer Book: A Book of Devotion for members of the Episcopal Church , revised edition, West Park, NY: Holy Cross Publications, p. 8:
To help.
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(sports) To make a pass that leads directly towards scoring.
A helpful action or an act of giving.
(sports) A statistic used in different sports to quantify the act of helping another player score points or goals; in baseball, an assist is defensive, allowing a teammate to record a putout.
Having a subordinate or auxiliary position.
Helping; lending aid or support; auxiliary.
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(obsolete) Someone who is present; a bystander, a witness.
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A person who assists or helps someone else.
(British) Sales assistant.
A software tool that provides assistance in some task.
Assistant is a related term of assist.
As nouns the difference between assist and assistant
is that assist is a helpful action or an act of giving while assistant is someone who is present; a bystander, a witness.As a verb assist
is to stand (at a place) or to (an opinion).As an adjective assistant is
having a subordinate or auxiliary position.assist
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Verb
(en verb)- A great part of the nobility assisted to his opinion.
- To assist at Mass every Sunday and Holy Day of Obligation.
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Derived terms
* assister * assistiveNoun
(en noun)- The foundation gave a much needed assist to the shelter.
- He had two assists in the game.
Derived terms
* assistful * assistlessAnagrams
* ----assistant
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Alternative forms
* assistaunt (obsolete)Adjective
(-) (attributive)- an assistant surgeon
- Genius and learning are mutually and greatly assistant to each other.
Noun
(en noun)- a woman of great authority, having first yeelded an accompt unto her Citizens, and shewed good reasons why she was resolved to end her life, earnestly entreated Pompey to be an assistant at her death, that so it might be esteemed more honourable.