Aid | Mean of aid in English Dictionary

/ˈeɪd/

• Verb
• to provide what is useful or necessary
1. They gave money in order to aid the cause.
2. She aided them in their efforts.
3. He jumped into the water to aid the drowning child.
4. His position was aided [=strengthened] by the fact that he was right.
5. a home run that was aided by the wind
6. aiding the poor
7. She aided the government in the attempt to fight illiteracy.
8. She is charged with aiding and abetting [=helping and encouraging] the thief in his getaway.
9. She aided in the attempt to fight illiteracy.
10. His research aided in the discovery of a new treatment for cancer.
11. The research aided in establishing new theories.
• Noun
• the act of helping someone
1. The teacher enlisted/sought the aid of several students for the project. [=the teacher asked several students to help with the project]
2. The project was completed with the aid of several students.
3. The work was done with the aid of a computer.
4. I can no longer read without the aid of glasses. [=without using glasses]
5. When the climbers became trapped by bad weather, a rescue party was sent to their aid. [=was sent to help/rescue them]
• something (such as money, food, or equipment) that is given by a government or an organization to help the people in a country or area where many people are suffering because of poverty, disease, etc.
1. The government has given millions of dollars in economic/foreign aid to these nations.
2. humanitarian aid
3. international aid organizations
4. an aid worker [=a person who goes to a foreign country to help the people there]

• money that is given to a student to help pay for the cost of attending a school
1. She applied for financial/student aid in order to go to college.
• something that provides help or assistance
1. The diagram is provided as an aid to understanding.
2. The computer is an aid to keeping costs down.
• a device, object, etc., that makes something easier to do
1. He teaches art with visual aids.
2. aids to navigation = navigational aids
3. instructional/learning aids
4. a pill used as an aid for sleeping = a sleeping aid
• a person whose job is to assist someone
1. She works as a teacher's aid.
• in order to help (something or someone)
1. The event is being held in aid of charity.
2. in aid of refugees
3. “What's all this rushing about in aid of, then?” [=what's all this rushing about for?] “We're trying to get things ready for the boss's visit.”