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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

AID, v.t. [L. adjuto.
To help; to assist; to support, either by furnishing strength or means to effect a purpose, or to prevent or remove evil.
AID, n.
1. Help; succor; support; assistance.
2. The person who aids or yields support; a helper; an auxiliary; also the thing that aids or yields succor.
3. In English law, a subsidy or tax granted by parliament, and making a part of the king's revenue.
In France, aids are equivalent to customs, or duties on imports and exports.
4. In England, a tax paid by a tenant to his lord; originally a mere gift, which afterwards became a right demandable by the lord. the aids of this king were chiefly three.
1. To ransom the lord when a prisoner.
2. To make the lord's eldest son a knight.
3. To marry the lord's eldest daughter.
5. An aiddecamp, so called by abbreviation.
6. To pray in aid, in law, is to call in a person interested in a title, to assist in defending it. Thus a tenant for life may pray in the aid of him in remainder or reversion; that is, he may pray or petition that he may be joined in the suit to aid or help maintain the title. This act or petition is called aid-prayer.
Court of aids, in France, is a court which has cognizance of causes respecting duties or customs.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a resource; "visual aids in teaching" [syn: aid, assistance, help]
2: the activity of contributing to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose; "he gave me an assist with the housework"; "could not walk without assistance"; "rescue party went to their aid"; "offered his help in unloading" [syn: aid, assist, assistance, help]
3: money to support a worthy person or cause [syn: aid, economic aid, financial aid]
4: the work of providing treatment for or attending to someone or something; "no medical care was required"; "the old car needs constant attention" [syn: care, attention, aid, tending] v
1: give help or assistance; be of service; "Everyone helped out during the earthquake"; "Can you help me carry this table?"; "She never helps around the house" [syn: help, assist, aid]
2: improve the condition of; "These pills will help the patient" [syn: help, aid]

Merriam Webster's

abbreviation 1. Agency for International Development 2. artificial insemination by donor

Merriam Webster's

I. verb Etymology: Middle English eyden, from Anglo-French aider, from Latin adjutare, frequentative of adjuvare, from ad- + juvare to help Date: 15th century transitive verb to provide with what is useful or necessary in achieving an end intransitive verb to give assistance • aider noun II. noun Date: 15th century 1. a subsidy granted to the king by the English parliament until the 18th century for an extraordinary purpose 2. a. the act of helping b. help given ; assistance <providing aid and comfort>; specifically tangible means of assistance (as money or supplies) 3. a. an assisting person or group — compare aide b. something by which assistance is given ; an assisting device <an aid to understanding> <a visual aid>; especially hearing aid 4. a tribute paid by a vassal to his lord

Oxford Reference Dictionary

abbr. artificial insemination by donor.

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. & v. --n. 1 help. 2 financial or material help, esp. given by one country to another. 3 a material source of help (teaching aid). 4 a person or thing that helps. 5 hist. a grant of subsidy or tax to a king. --v.tr. 1 (often foll. by to + infin.) help. 2 promote or encourage (sleep will aid recovery). Phrases and idioms: in aid of in support of. what's this (or all this) in aid of? colloq. what is the purpose of this? Etymology: ME f. OF a{iuml}de, a{iuml}dier, ult. f. L adjuvare (as AD-, juvare jut- help)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Aid Aid, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Aided; p. pr. & vb. n. Aiding.] [F. aider, OF. aidier, fr. L. adjutare to help, freq. of adjuvare to help; ad + juvare to help. Cf. Adjutant.] To support, either by furnishing strength or means in co["o]peration to effect a purpose, or to prevent or to remove evil; to help; to assist. You speedy helpers . . . Appear and aid me in this enterprise. --Shak. Syn: To help; assist; support; sustain; succor; relieve; befriend; co["o]perate; promote. See Help.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Aid Aid, n. [F. aide, OF. a["i]de, a["i]e, fr. the verb. See Aid, v. t.] 1. Help; succor; assistance; relief. An unconstitutional mode of obtaining aid. --Hallam. 2. The person or thing that promotes or helps in something done; a helper; an assistant. It is not good that man should be alone; let us make unto him an aid like unto himself. --Tobit viii. 6. 3. (Eng. Hist.) A subsidy granted to the king by Parliament; also, an exchequer loan. 4. (Feudal Law) A pecuniary tribute paid by a vassal to his lord on special occasions. --Blackstone. 5. An aid-de-camp, so called by abbreviation; as, a general's aid. Aid prayer (Law), a proceeding by which a defendant beseeches and claims assistance from some one who has a further or more permanent interest in the matter in suit. To pray in aid, to beseech and claim such assistance.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(aids, aiding, aided) Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English. 1. Aid is money, equipment, or services that are provided for people, countries, or organizations who need them but cannot provide them for themselves. ...regular flights carrying humanitarian aid to Cambodia... They have already pledged billions of dollars in aid. ...food aid convoys. N-UNCOUNT: oft supp N, N to n 2. To aid a country, organization, or person means to provide them with money, equipment, or services that they need. ...US efforts to aid Kurdish refugees. VERB: V n • -aided ...grant-aided factories. ...state-aided schools. COMB in ADJ 3. To aid someone means to help or assist them. (WRITTEN) ...a software system to aid managers in advanced decision-making... The hunt for her killer will continue, with police aided by the army and air force. = help, assist VERB: V n, V-ed, also V n to-inf • Aid is also a noun. He was forced to turn for aid to his former enemy. = assistance 4. If you perform a task with the aid of something, you need or use that thing to perform that task. He succeeded with the aid of a completely new method he discovered... = help N-UNCOUNT: usu with/without the N of n 5. An aid is an object, device, or technique that makes something easier to do. The book is an invaluable aid to teachers of literature... N-COUNT: oft N to n 6. If something aids a process, it makes it easier or more likely to happen. The export sector will aid the economic recovery... Calcium may aid in the prevention of colon cancer. VERB: V n, V in n/-ing 7. see also Band-Aid, first aid, hearing aid, legal aid 8. An activity or event in aid of a particular cause or charity is intended to raise money for that cause or charity. (mainly BRIT) ...a charity performance in aid of Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital. PHRASE: PHR n 9. If you come or go to someone's aid, you try to help them when they are in danger or difficulty. PHRASE: V inflects

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

ad (chazaq, "to strengthen," "to aid"): A military term used only once in Old Testament in the King James Version (Jud 9:24) and displaced in the Revised Version (British and American) by the literal rendering, "who strengthened his hands." The men of Shechem supported Abimelech in his fratricidal crime, with money, enabling him to hire men to murder his brethren. The fundamental idea in the word, as used in the Old Testament, is "abounding strength."

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

I. v. a. 1. Assist, help, support, serve, speed, second, back, befriend, prosper, abet, co-operate with, take part with, give support to, minister to, take turn with, relieve. See spell. 2. Succor, relieve, do kindness to, supply the necessities of, give alms (to). II. n. 1. Assistance, help, furtherance, cooperation, patronage, support, helping hand, good offices. See lift. 2. Succor, relief, alms, bounty, subsidy. 3. Helper, assistant. See aider. 4. Aide-de-camp.

Airports

Landing Facility Type	AIRPORT
Airport Code	AID
EFF_DATE	02/16/2006
FAA Region	AGL
FAA District	CHI
State	IN
State	INDIANA
County	MADISON
County State	IN
City Name	ANDERSON
Full Name	ANDERSON MUNICIPAL-DARLINGTON FIELD
Owner Type	PU
Facility Use	PU
Facility City, State, Zip	"ANDERSON, IN 46017"
Elevation	919
Aeronautical chart on which the airport facility appears	CHICAGO
Distance from the central business district of the associated city to the airport in nautical miles	03
Direction of airport from the central business district of the associated city	E
NASP/Federal Agreement Code	NGY
Customs international airport	N
Customs Landing Rights Airport	N
Joint Use	N
Military Landing Rights	Y
Control Tower	Y
Based Single Engine General Aviation Aircraft	072
Based Multi-engine general aviation aircraft	009
Based Ultralight aircraft	002
Air Taxi	001736
General Aviation, Local Operations	013166
General Aviation - Itinerant Operations	012354
Military Aircraft Operations	000088
Latitude	40.1086111111
Longitude	-85.6130000000
State FIPS code	18
State Postal Code	IN
Total domestic enplanements (inbound plus outbound)	5
Version	09

Moby Thesaurus

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