Preventive vs Aid - What's the difference?
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Preventing, hindering, or acting as an obstacle to.
Carried out to deter military aggression.
Slowing the development of an illness; prophylactic.
* Sir Thomas Browne
(obsolete) Going before; preceding.
* Cudworth
(dated) A thing that prevents, hinders, or acts as an obstacle to.
* 1856 , Henry William Herbert, The Complete Manual for Young Sportsmen
(nonstandard) A thing that slows the development of an illness.
A contraceptive, especially a condom.
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Help; assistance; succor, relief.
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*(Henry Hallam) (1777-1859)
*:An unconstitutional mode of obtaining aid .
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*:“[…] it is not fair of you to bring against mankind double weapons ! Dangerous enough you are as woman alone, without bringing to your aid those gifts of mind suited to problems which men have been accustomed to arrogate to themselves.”
A helper; an assistant.
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*:It is not good that man should be alone; let us make unto him an aid like unto himself.
Something which helps; a material source of help.
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, magazine=(American Scientist), title= (lb) An historical subsidy granted to the crown by Parliament for an extraordinary purpose, such as a war effort.
(lb) An exchequer loan.
(lb) A pecuniary tribute paid by a vassal to his feudal lord on special occasions.
An aide-de-camp, so called by abbreviation.
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To (give) support (to); to further the progress of; to help; to assist.
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Preventive is a related term of aid.
As an adjective preventive
is .As a proper noun aid is
.preventive
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Physic is either curative or preventive .
- Any previous counsel or preventive understanding.
Noun
(en noun)- Dogs should be warmly but airily housed; heartily, but not heatingly, fed — old Indian meal, mixed with oatmeal, suppawn, is the best general food, with a small quantity of salt, which is a preventive against worms
Alternative forms
* preventativeUsage notes
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English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) aide, from (etyl) . Cognate include Spanish ayuda, Portuguese ajuda and Italian aiutoNoun
(en noun)The Evolution of Eyeglasses, passage=The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone
Derived terms
* aid climbing * aidful * aidless * aidman * first aid * hearing aidEtymology 2
From (etyl) aidier (modern aider), from (etyl) adiuto'', frequentative of ''adiuvo "to assist".Verb
(en verb)- You speedy helpers Appear and aid me in this enterprise.
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