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Assist vs Hel - What's the difference?

assist | hel |

As a verb assist

is to stand (at a place) or to (an opinion).

As a noun assist

is a helpful action or an act of giving.

As a proper noun Hel is

the goddess of the dead, a daughter of Loki.

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

    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

    * ----

    hel

    English

    Alternative forms

    * Hela, Hell

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • (Norse mythology) The goddess of the dead, a daughter of Loki.
  • (Norse mythology) The realm of the dead, (also known as Helheim ), the domain of the goddess Hel. Located within Niflheim, (one of the ).