(v. t.) To support, either by furnishing strength or means in cooperation to effect a purpose, or to prevent or to remove evil; to help; to assist.
(v. t.) Help; succor; assistance; relief.
(v. t.) The person or thing that promotes or helps in something done; a helper; an assistant.
(v. t.) A subsidy granted to the king by Parliament; also, an exchequer loan.
(v. t.) A pecuniary tribute paid by a vassal to his lord on special occasions.
(v. t.) An aid-de-camp, so called by abbreviation; as, a general's aid.
Example Sentences:
(1) A former Berlusconi aide, Valter Lavitola, is also on trial for being the alleged intermediary in the bribe.
(2) Our data suggest that a rational use of surveillance cultures and serological tests may aid in an earlier diagnosis of FI in BMT patients.
(3) But soon after aid workers departed, barrel bombs dropped by Syrian helicopters caused renewed destruction.
(4) In platform shoes to emulate Johnson's height, and with the aid of prosthetic earlobes, Cranston becomes the 36th president: he bullies and cajoles, flatters and snarls and barks, tells dirty jokes or glows with idealism as required, and delivers the famous "Johnson treatment" to everyone from Martin Luther King to the racist Alabama governor George Wallace.
(5) Such was the mystique surrounding Rumsfeld's standing that an aide sought to clarify that he didn't stand all the time, like a horse.
(6) The Nazi extermination of Jews in Lithuania (aided enthusiastically by local Lithuanians) was virtually total.
(7) Results in May 89 emphasizes: the relevance and urgency of the prevention of AIDS in secondary schools; the importance of the institutional aspect for the continuity of the project; the involvement of the pupils and the trainers for the processus; the feasibility of an intervention using only local resources.
(8) David Cameron last night hit out at his fellow world leaders after the G8 dropped the promise to meet the historic aid commitments made at Gleneagles in 2005 from this year's summit communique.
(9) Duesberg contends that HIV is neither necessary nor sufficient to cause AIDS.
(10) Furthermore the limit between hearing aid fitting an cochlear implantation is discussed.
(11) We present a mathematical model that is suitable to reconcile this apparent contradiction in the interpretation of the epidemiological data: the observed parallel time series for the spread of AIDS in groups with different risk of infection can be realized by computer simulation, if one assumes that the outbreak of full-blown AIDS only occurs if HIV and a certain infectious coagent (cofactor) CO are present.
(12) But both for malaria and Aids we’re seeing the tools that will let us do 95-100% reduction.
(13) We identified four distinct clinical patterns in the 244 patients with true positive MAI infections: (a) pulmonary nodules ("tuberculomas") indistinguishable from pulmonary neoplasms (78 patients); (b) chronic bronchitis or bronchiectasis with sputum repeatedly positive for MAI or granulomas on biopsy (58 patients, virtually all older white women); (c) cavitary lung disease and scattered pulmonary nodules mimicking M. tuberculosis infection (12 patients); (d) diffuse pulmonary infiltrations in immunocompromised hosts, primarily patients with AIDS (96 patients).
(14) Grisham said she and other aides had not been aware of the trip and “appreciate everyone’s understanding”.
(15) We have recently described a nonnucleoside compound that specifically inhibits the reverse transcriptase of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1), the causative agent of AIDS.
(16) Many hope this week's photocalls with the two men will be a recruiting aid and provide a desperately needed bounce in the polls.
(17) In the interim, sonographic studies during pregnancy in women at risk for AIDS may be helpful in identifying fetal intrauterine growth retardation and may help raise our level of suspicion for congenital AIDS.
(18) This paper presents findings from a survey on knowledge of and attitudes and practices towards AIDS among currently married Zimbabwean men conducted between April and June 1988.
(19) The Department for International Development (DfID) defines funding provided under the VUP as "financial aid to government".
(20) It is intended to aid in finding the appropriate PI (proportional-integral) controller settings by means of computer simulation instead of real experiments with the system.
Paid
Definition:
(imp., p. p., & a.) Receiving pay; compensated; hired; as, a paid attorney.
(imp., p. p., & a.) Satisfied; contented.
(imp. & p. p.) of Pay
Example Sentences:
(1) Further development of drug formulary concept was discussed, primarily for the drugs paid by the Health Insurance, as well as the unsatisfactory ADR reporting in Yugoslavia.
(2) They also said no surplus that built up in the scheme, which runs at a £700m deficit, would be paid to any “sponsor or employer” under any circumstances.
(3) And, as elsewhere in this epidemic, those on the frontline paid the highest price: four of the seven fatalities were health workers, including Adadevoh.
(4) The family history and associated anomalies were recorded and particular attention was paid to temperature gradients and neurocirculatory deficits with respect to band location.
(5) If women psychiatrists are to fill some of the positions in Departments of Psychiatry, which will fall vacant over the next decade, much more attention must be paid to eliminating or diminishing the multiple obstacles for women who chose a career in academic psychiatry.
(6) "If you look at the price HP paid, it was an excellent deal for the Autonomy shareholders.
(7) Particular attention has been paid to diabetes mellitus and chronic pancreatitis, but a firm conclusion cannot be drawn.
(8) Attention is paid to the set of problems connected with the nonthrombotic insufficiency of the conducting veins of the leg.
(9) In each of the clinics I visit I ask how much the surrogates are paid.
(10) In France, there is still a meaningful connection between earnings, social contributions paid in, and benefit paid out.
(11) Our campaign has been going for some time and each step in our progress has been hard won, by campaigners paid and volunteer alike.
(12) Documents seen by the Guardian show that blood supplies for one fiscal year were paid for by donations from America’s Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA) and Britain’s Department for International Development (DfID) – and both countries have imposed economic sanctions against the Syrian government.
(13) Photograph: Christopher Thomond for the Guardian I don’t know how much my parents paid for their home but in 1955 the average house price for the whole country was £1,891.
(14) They are saying they have paid with their blood and they do not want to retreat," said Saad el-Hosseini, a senior Brotherhood politician.
(15) Minimum investment is £200, and the share prospectus states that interest of 6% will be paid from year three of trading.
(16) Attention should be paid to the circumstances under which the chart is applied, as normal micturition behaviour seems to be highly dependent on social factors.
(17) He also paid tribute to first responders and rescue workers.
(18) The ABI figures revealed that the best annuity for someone who is a heavy smoker and has severely impaired health was at Prudential, which paid out 46% more than the worst, from Friends Life.
(19) Clifford began representing the family after the media were "camped out on their door" earlier this year but said that he was not being paid by the family, added that the story should never have been in the paper.
(20) To comply with these rules, interest is not paid on Islamic savings or current accounts, or charged on Islamic mortgages.