Office vs Help - What's the difference?
office | help | Synonyms |
A building or room where clerical or professional duties are performed.
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*:There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy.Passengers wander restlessly about or hurry, with futile energy, from place to place. Pushing men hustle each other at the windows of the purser's office , under pretence of expecting letters or despatching telegrams.
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, title= A bureau, an administrative unit of government.
A position of responsibility of some authority within an organisation.
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A charge or trust; a function.
*(Bible), (w) xi. 13
*:Inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify mine office .
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:They [the eyes] resign their office and their light.
*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:Hesperus, whose office is to bring / Twilight upon the earth.
*(Isaac Newton) (1642-1727)
*:In this experiment the several intervals of the teeth of the comb do the office of so many prisms.
Rite, ceremonial observance of social or religious nature.
Religious service, especially a liturgy officiated by a Christian priest or minister.
*(John Evelyn) (1620-1706)
*:This morning was read in the church, after the office was done, the declaration setting forth the late conspiracy against the king's person.
A major administrative division, notably in certain governmental administrations, either at ministry level (e.g. the British Home Office) or within or dependent on such a department.
(lb) That which a person does, either voluntarily or by appointment, for, or with reference to, others; customary duty, or a duty that arises from human relations.
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*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:I would I could do a good office between you.
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*1813 , (Jane Austen), (Pride and Prejudice) , Modern Library Edition (1995), p.144
*:there I readily engaged in the office of pointing out to my friend the certain evils of such a choice.
(lb) The parts of a house given over to household work, storage etc.
*(Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)
*:As for the offices , let them stand at distance.
*1887 , Sir (Arthur Conan Doyle), (A Study in Scarlet) , III:
*:A short passage, bare planked and dusty, led to the kitchen and offices .
An office suite; a collection of work?related computer programs (shortened from several such suites with 'office' in their name).
(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.
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, title= To avoid; to prevent; to refrain from; to restrain (oneself). Usually used in nonassertive contexts with can .
Office is a synonym of help.
As nouns the difference between office and help
is that office is a building or room where clerical or professional duties are performed while help is (uncountable) action given to provide assistance; aid.As a verb help is
to provide assistance to (someone or something).office
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Noun
(en noun)Revenge of the nerds, passage=Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suited men in towering skyscrapers. Its future, however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York and London, where bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching on free food.}}
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City, Utah 1981
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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.}}