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Assist vs Bestead - What's the difference?

assist | bestead |

As verbs the difference between assist and bestead

is that assist is (label) to stand (at a place) or to (an opinion) while bestead is to help, assist or bestead can be to take the place of; replace.

As a noun assist

is a helpful action or an act of giving.

As an adjective bestead is

(archaic) placed (in a given situation); beset.

assist

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • (label) To stand (at a place) or to (an opinion).
    • A great part of the nobility assisted to his 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 assist at Mass every Sunday and Holy Day of Obligation.
  • To help.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=April 15 , author=Phil McNulty , title=Tottenham 1-5 Chelsea , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=The referee seemed well placed to award the goal, but video evidence suggested the protests were well founded and the incident only strengthens the case of those lobbying for technology to assist officials.}}
  • (sports) To make a pass that leads directly towards scoring.

    • Derived terms

    * assister * assistive

    Related terms

    * assistant * assistance

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A helpful action or an act of giving.
    • The foundation gave a much needed assist to the shelter.
  • (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.
    • He had two assists in the game.

    Derived terms

    * assistful * assistless

    Anagrams

    * ----

    bestead

    English

    Etymology 1

    From .

    Alternative forms

    * bested

    Verb

  • To help, assist.
  • *, I.40:
  • *:even errours and dreames, doe profitably bestead her, as a loyall matter, to bring us unto safetie and contentment.
  • *
  • *1956 , Haïm Hazaz, Mori Sa'id :
  • *:"No, but you must tell me, no matter what; perhaps I may give you good counsel and bestead you in your trouble."
  • To profit; benefit; serve; avail.
  • *1859 , Southern literary messenger: Volume 28:
  • *:With forty sous which remained, he went to a low gambling house, where fortune, or something surer to the skilful practitioner, so well besteaded him that he was able to clothe himself decently preparatory to entering Frascati's, the fashionable hell of Paris—a den of abomination early suppressed on the accession of Louis Philippe to the French throne.
  • *2007 , Miguel De Unamuno, Tragic Sense of Life :
  • *:Abstract thought besteads immortality only in order that it may kill me as an individual being with an individual existence, and so make me immortal, pretty much in the same way as that famous physician in one of Holberg's plays,.
    • Synonyms
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    Derived terms
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    Etymology 2

    From .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To take the place of; replace.

    • Etymology 3

    From , later assimilated to Etymology 1, above.

    Alternative forms

    *

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (archaic) Placed (in a given situation); beset.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1897, author=Jeanie Gould Lincoln, title=An Unwilling Maid, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=I was indeed hard bestead , sir," burst in Oliver. " }}
  • (obsolete) Disposed mentally; affected.
    • sorrowfully bested
  • (obsolete) Provided; furnished.

    • Anagrams

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