(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.
Yid
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Nonetheless, before taking YID-001 for a spin on the Tuggeranong Parkway, Murrumu and his associates did inform the police that the car licensed to the Yidiindji government would be driving on local roads.
(2) Our film was sparked by the behaviour of a Chelsea fan who, sitting a few seats behind me and Ivor one Saturday, decided to upgrade the chant – regularly heard at Stamford Bridge whenever anything Spurs-related comes up – to a more pointed one of "Fuck the fucking Yids!
(3) Three years ago, me and my brother Ivor made a short film for Kick Racism Out of Football called The Y-Word , which attempted to challenge the acceptability of the chanting of the word Yid (and other antisemitic chants) across a variety of London clubs.
(4) Many Chelsea fans who I have challenged feel they are justified because "the Yids is what Spurs call themselves".
(5) That includes baiting Liverpool fans about Hillsborough, calling Spurs fans “Yids”, old loyalist songs about the IRA, taking drugs and openly flouting smoking bans inside grounds, starting fights and generally invoking negative and outdated stereotypes about fans from different parts of the country or other countries.
(6) Now, during a visit to the national capital he has, since 2 January, been driving around in YID-001, a car that was, Murrumu says, “licensed to the sovereign Yidindji government” on the first day of the new year.
(7) But Murrumu said he decided to release YID-001 “in Ngambri (Canberra in Walgalu, the language of the custodians of the plains upon which the national capital is imposed) for the very symbolic gesture that the head office called Parliament House of the Commonwealth of Australia is located there”.
(8) The comedian and writer David Baddiel, a Chelsea fan, also argued the use of Yid and similar words is antisemitic.
(9) So while the businessman David Harding can reasonably suggest that words such as “geek” and “nerd” are as offensive as “nigger” and “yid”, we know that they are not.
(10) Tottenham Hotspur fans resisted the threat of criminal action over chanting of the word "yid" during their home match with Norwich.
(11) Tottenham Hotspur fans have been told they could be arrested if they use the word "Yid" during the club's home match against West Ham United on Sunday as the simmering row over Spurs supporters' routine use of the words "Yid Army", "Yids" or "Yiddo" led to a warning over their behaviour from the Metropolitan police.
(12) The black and gold plates read: “ Yidindji - YID-001 - Pursuant to Yidindji Tribal Law.” The car’s driver is Murrumu Walubara Yidindji, a man in his 40s from the country around Cairns, north Queensland , who last year decided to voluntarily “leave Australia” and live by the tribal law of his Indigenous people, the Yidindji.
(13) The car he was driving, fitted with black and gold number plates reading YID 001, had also come to police attention and the plates were taken.
(14) Their fans regularly parade the club's Jewish credentials, chanting "Yid Army", "Yids" or "Yiddo".
(15) The prime minister told the Jewish Chronicle last month there was "a difference between Spurs fans self-describing themselves as Yids and someone calling someone a Yid as an insult", adding: "You have to be motivated by hate.
(16) In the third minute of the game "We'll sing what we want" rang around White Hart Lane, followed by the traditional cry of "Yid Army".