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Verb
/ād/,
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aids, plural;
  1. Help, assist, or support (someone or something) in the achievement of something
    • - women were aided in childbirth by midwives
    • - the heel was slanted to aid in climbing hilly terrain
  2. Promote or encourage (something)
    • - diet and exercise aid healthy skin
Noun
  1. Help, typically of a practical nature
    • - he saw the pilot slumped in his cockpit and went to his aid
    • - within six weeks he was walking with the aid of a walker
  2. Financial or material help given to a country or area in need
    • - 700,000 tons of food aid
    • - aid convoys
  3. A person or thing that is a source of help or assistance
    • - exercise is an important aid to recovery after heart attacks
    • - a teaching aid
  4. A grant of subsidy or tax to a king


  1. a resource; "visual aids in teaching"
  2. help: 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"
  3. help: improve the condition of; "These pills will help the patient"
  4. 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"
  5. money to support a worthy person or cause
  6. care: the work of providing treatment for or attending to someone or something; "no medical care was required"; "the old car needs constant attention"
  7. Aid (also known as international aid, overseas aid, or foreign aid, especially in the United States) is a voluntary transfer of resources from one country to another, given at least partly with the objective of benefiting the recipient country. ...
  8. (Aiding) Aydingkol , Aydingkul or Ayding is a lake in the Turpan Depression, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, PR China. At 154 m below sea level, it is the second lowest land point on Earth (after the Dead Sea). This lake is now totally dried, and very muddy and salty.
  9. (AIDs) Acquired immune deficiency syndrome or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) is a disease of the human immune system caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). ...
  10. (AIDS (Asia)) Compared with other regions, notably Africa and the Americas, the national HIV prevalence levels in East Asia are very low (0.1% in the adult (15-49) group). ...
  11. (AIDS (aviation)) AIDS (Aircraft Integrated Data System) is an aircraft system that allows the airline to record and/or monitor all available parameters which are on the aircraft buses. ...
  12. (Aids (feudalism)) A vassal, in the terminology that preceded and accompanied the feudalism of medieval Europe, is one who enters into mutual obligations with a monarch, usually of military support and mutual protection, in exchange for certain guarantees, which came to include the terrain held ...
  13. Help assistance; succor, relief; The person who promotes or helps in something being done; a helper; an assistant; Something which helps; a material source of help; A historical subsidy granted to the crown by Parliament for an extraordinary purpose, such as a war effort; An exchequer loan; A ...
  14. (Aided) the recognition of a product or service by a respondent when it is presented to them.
  15. (Aids) Signals made by the rider or driver to communicate his wishes to the horse.   "Natural" riding aids are the legs, hands, body weight, and voice.   "Artificial" aids are the whip and spur.
  16. (Aids) the last three fingers of the sword hand.
  17. (Aids) With the use of legs, seat, reins, crop and spurs the rider communicates cues to the horse. No verbal communication is allowed.
  18. (AIDS) acronym for Acaquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome;  a disease of the immune system caused by infection with the retrovirus HIV, which destroys some types of white blood cells and is transmitted through blood or bodily secretions such as semen. ...
  19. (AIDS) a disease that hurts the immune system, the body's way of protecting itself. Having AIDS makes it easy to get certain infections and cancers. It is caused by the HIV infection.
  20. (AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome)) A sexually-transmitted disease caused by the HIV virus which is categorized by low T-cell counts and includes health conditions including tuberculosis, cancer or recurrent pneumonia.
  21. (AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome)) The disease caused by HIV. Common presentations ("opportunistic infections") of AIDS include the following: PCP; toxoplasmosis; candidiasis; cryptococcal meningitis; aggressive KS etc. ...
  22. (AIDS (Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome)) A condition characterized by a defect in the body's natural immunity to diseases. Individuals who suffer from it are at risk for severe illnesses that are usually not a threat to anyone whose immune system is working properly. [8]
  23. (AIDS) A disease of the immune system characterized by increased susceptibility to opportunistic infections, as pneumocystis carinii pneumonia and candidiasis, to certain cancers, as Kaposi's sarcoma, and to neurological disorders: caused by a retrovirus and transmitted chiefly through blood or ...
  24. (AIDS) Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. No reported cases of AIDS have come from hair removal, although sterile procedures should be used during hair removal to keep risk to a minimum.
  25. (AIDS) After Intense Drinking Shits