Assist vs Subserve - What's the difference?
assist | subserve | Related terms |
(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.
To serve to promote (an end); to be useful to.
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To assist in carrying out.
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Assist is a related term of subserve.
As verbs the difference between assist and subserve
is that assist is (label) to stand (at a place) or to (an opinion) while subserve is to serve to promote (an end); to be useful to.As a noun assist
is a helpful action or an act of giving.assist
English
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
* ----subserve
English
Verb
(en-verb)- 'Tis a greater credit to know the ways of captivating Nature, and making her subserve our purposes, than to have learned all the intrigues of policy.