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Assist vs Remedy - What's the difference?

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Assist is a related term of remedy.


As verbs the difference between assist and remedy

is that assist is (label) to stand (at a place) or to (an opinion) while remedy is to provide or serve as a remedy for.

As nouns the difference between assist and remedy

is that assist is a helpful action or an act of giving while remedy is something that corrects or counteracts.

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

    * ----

    remedy

    English

    (wikipedia remedy)

    Noun

    (remedies)
  • Something that corrects or counteracts.
  • (legal) The legal means to recover a right or to prevent or obtain redress for a wrong.
  • A medicine, application, or treatment that relieves or cures a disease.
  • * 1856 : (Gustave Flaubert), (Madame Bovary), Part III Chapter X, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling
  • He said to himself that no doubt they would save her; the doctors would discover some remedy surely. He remembered all the miraculous cures he had been told about. Then she appeared to him dead. She was there; before his eyes, lying on her back in the middle of the road. He reined up, and the hallucination disappeared.

    Derived terms

    * remediless

    Verb

  • To provide or serve as a remedy for.
  • * 1748 . David Hume. Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. ยง 27.
  • Nor is geometry, when taken into the assistance of natural philosophy, ever able to remedy this defect,
    Synonyms
    * redress * help * correct * cure * See also