Help vs Hell - What's the difference?
help | hell |
(uncountable) Action given to provide assistance; aid.
(usually, uncountable) Something or someone which provides assistance with a task.
Documentation provided with computer software, etc. and accessed using the computer.
(usually, uncountable) One or more people employed to help in the maintenance of a house or the operation of a farm or enterprise.
(uncountable, euphemistic) Correction of deficits, as by psychological counseling or medication or social support or remedial training.
To provide assistance to (someone or something).
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, title= To contribute in some way to.
To provide assistance.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
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, title= To avoid; to prevent; to refrain from; to restrain (oneself). Usually used in nonassertive contexts with can .
In various religions, the place where some or all spirits are believed to go after death
(Abrahamic religions, uncountable) The place where devils live and where sinners are tortured after death
* 1667 , John Milton, Paradise Lost
* 1916 , James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
(countable, hyperbole) A place or situation of great suffering in life.
* 1879 , General William T. Sherman, commencement address at the Michigan Military Academy
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(countable) A place for gambling.
* W. Black
* 1907 , (Joseph Conrad), The Secret Agent
An extremely hot place.
(Used as an intensifier in phrases grammatically requiring a noun)
(obsolete) A place into which a tailor throws his shreds, or a printer his broken type.
In certain games of chase, a place to which those who are caught are carried for detention.
As a noun help
is (uncountable) action given to provide assistance; aid.As a verb help
is to provide assistance to (someone or something).As a proper noun hell is
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English
Etymology 1
From (etyl), from (etyl) .Noun
(en-noun)- I need some help with my homework.
- He was a great help to me when I was moving house.
- I've printed out a list of math helps .
- I can't find anything in the help about rotating an image.
- The help is coming round this morning to clean.
- Most of the hired help is seasonal, for the harvest.
- His suicide attempts were a cry for help .
- He really needs help in handling customer complaints.
- ''"He's a real road-rager." / "Yup, he really needs help , maybe anger management."
Usage notes
The sense "people employed to help in the maintenance of a house" is usually an uncountable mass noun. A countable form - "a hired help''", "''two hired helps " - is attested, but now less common.Quotations
(English Citations of "help")Synonyms
* (action given to provide assistance) aid, assistance * (person or persons who provide assistance) * (person employed to help in the maintenance of a house)Derived terms
* cry for help * help desk * helpful * helpless * helpline * helply * helpmate * helpmeet * helpsome * home help * self-helpEtymology 2
From (etyl) helpen, from (etyl) . Cognate with (etyl) .Verb
Snakes and ladders, passage=Risk is everywhere.
citation, passage=As soon as Julia returned with a constable, Timothy, who was on the point of exhaustion, prepared to give over to him gratefully. The newcomer turned out to be a powerful youngster, fully trained and eager to help , and he stripped off his tunic at once.}}
A punch in the gut, passage=Mostly, the microbiome is beneficial. It helps with digestion and enables people to extract a lot more calories from their food than would otherwise be possible. Research over the past few years, however, has implicated it in diseases from atherosclerosis to asthma to autism.}}
Usage notes
* Use 3 is often used in the imperative mood as a call for assistance. * In uses 1, 2 and 3, this is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive . It can also take the bare infinitive with no change in meaning. * In use 4, can't help is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (-ing) or, with but, the bare infinitive. * For more information, seeSynonyms
* (provide assistance to) aid, assist, come to the aid of, help out * (contribute in some way to) contribute to * (provide assistance) assistDerived terms
* a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down * can't help * helper * helping * help oneself * help outhell
English
(wikipedia hell)Alternative forms
* (Christianity) Hell * *Proper noun
(en proper noun)- Do Muslims believe that all non-Muslims go to hell ?
- May you rot in hell !
- Better to reign in Hell' than serve in ' Heaven .
- Hell is a strait and dark and foul-smelling prison, an abode of demons and lost souls, filled with fire and smoke.
Synonyms
* (euphemisms for Christian place for damned souls after death) Hades, heck, infernal region, inferno, netherworld, underworld * (Mormonism) Spirit]] [[prison, PrisonAntonyms
* (sense) heavenNoun
(en noun)- My new boss is making my job a hell .
- I went through hell to get home today.
- There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell .
- a convenient little gambling hell for those who had grown reckless
- You don't have a snowball's chance in hell .
- I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take it any more.
- What the hell is wrong with you?
- He says he's going home early? Like hell he is.
- (Hudibras)