Assisted vs Backed - What's the difference?
assisted | backed |
(assist)
(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.
(back)
(obsolete, slang) Put on one's back; killed; rendered dead.
(in combination) Having specified type of back.
(in combination) Having specified type of backing.
As verbs the difference between assisted and backed
is that assisted is (assist) while backed is (back).As an adjective backed is
(obsolete|slang) put on one's back; killed; rendered dead.assisted
English
Verb
(head)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
* ----backed
English
Etymology 1
From (back) (verb)Verb
(head)Etymology 2
From .Adjective
(-)- He wishes to have the senior, or old square-toes, backed ; he longs to have his father on six men's shoulders; that is, carried to the grave.
- a high-backed chair
- sway-backed
- red-backed shrike
- asset-backed securities