Assistant vs Understudy - What's the difference?
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Having a subordinate or auxiliary position.
Helping; lending aid or support; auxiliary.
* Beattie
(obsolete) Someone who is present; a bystander, a witness.
*, II.3:
A person who assists or helps someone else.
(British) Sales assistant.
A software tool that provides assistance in some task.
to study or know a role to such an extent as to be able to replace the normal performer when required
to act as an understudy (to someone)
a performer who understudies; a standby
Assistant is a related term of understudy.
As nouns the difference between assistant and understudy
is that assistant is (obsolete) someone who is present; a bystander, a witness while understudy is a performer who understudies; a standby.As an adjective assistant
is having a subordinate or auxiliary position.As a verb understudy is
to study or know a role to such an extent as to be able to replace the normal performer when required.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.