Saving vs Aid - What's the difference?
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A reduction in cost or expenditure.
(countable, usually plural) Something (usually money) that is saved.
(uncountable) The action of the verb to save.
(obsolete) exception; reservation
* L'Estrange
(theology) That saves someone from damnation; redemptive.
Preserving; rescuing.
* Bible, Psalms xxviii. 8
Thrifty; frugal.
* 1932 , (Lewis Grassic Gibbon), Sunset Song'', Polygon 2006 (''A Scots Quair ), p. 14:
Bringing back in returns or in receipts the sum expended; incurring no loss, though not gainful.
Making reservation or exception.
With the exception of; except; save.
* Bible, Revelations ii. 17
Without disrespect to.
* Shakespeare
* Burns
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.
*(w) viii. 6
*: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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(lb) An exchequer loan.
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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.
* Shakespeare
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As nouns the difference between saving and aid
is that saving is a reduction in cost or expenditure while aid is help; assistance; succor, relief.As verbs the difference between saving and aid
is that saving is present participle of lang=en while aid is to (give) support (to); to further the progress of; to help; to assist.As an adjective saving
is that saves someone from damnation; redemptive.As a preposition saving
is with the exception of; except; save.As a proper noun AID is
acronym of Agency for International Development|lang=en.saving
English
Noun
- The shift of the supplier gave us a saving of 10 percent.
- I invested all my savings in gold.
- Contend not with those that are too strong for us, but still with a saving to honesty.
Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)- He is the saving strength of his anointed.
- a saving cook
- Three of her bairns were drowned at sea, fishing off the Bervie braes they had been, but the fourth, the boy Cospatric, him that died the same day as the Old Queen, he was douce and saving and sensible, and set putting the estate to rights.
- a saving bargain
- The ship has made a saving voyage.
- a saving clause
Preposition
(English prepositions)- And in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it.
- Saving your reverence.
- Saving your presence.
Derived terms
* life savings * saving graceaid
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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