(v. t.) To enter on a list; to enroll; to register.
(v. t.) To engage for military or naval service, the name being entered on a list or register; as, to enlist men.
(v. t.) To secure the support and aid of; to employ in advancing interest; as, to enlist persons in the cause of truth, or in a charitable enterprise.
(v. i.) To enroll and bind one's self for military or naval service; as, he enlisted in the regular army; the men enlisted for the war.
(v. i.) To enter heartily into a cause, as if enrolled.
Example Sentences:
(1) A sweet-talking man in a suit who enlists the most successful barrister in town holds remarkable sway, I’ve learned.
(2) Thus, the school, church, community and social agencies have all been enlisted in this task.
(3) Prince Harry and the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have enlisted a rapper, a Royal Marine and a Labour spin doctor to try to push stigma about discussing mental health beyond what they believe is a “tipping point” and into public acceptability.
(4) The Democratic US Senator for Maryland, Ben Cardin, tried to enlist the State Department's help but was brushed aside.
(5) How can we let our girls, one-quarter of our population, be damaged for life by sexual abuse?” Bansal enlisted the support of the Recovery and Healing from Incest Foundation (Rahi) , an NGO that works with child abuse survivors to train police officers.
(6) We studied drinking patterns and problems of 451 US Army enlisted men after their return from Vietnam.
(7) Google enlisted members of the US congress, whose election campaigns it had funded, to pressure the European Union to drop a €6bn antitrust case which threatens to decimate the US tech firm’s business in Europe.
(8) The directive seeks to tackle head on the industry's attempts to enlist young people as smokers by introducing graphic warnings and banning flavouring and other enhancements.
(9) To bail themselves out of the NBA's worst crisis of credibility since the Tim Donaghy officiating scandal, the easy part for the NBA will be enlisting the eagerness and financial muscle of Magic Johnson and Mark Walter of the Guggenheim Partners – owners of the Los Angeles Dodgers .
(10) There are relationships between cannabis use and geographic area of enlistment, religious preference, aptitude scores, race, educational level, and age at enlistment.
(11) The workshop is designed to help family and friends become useful, long-term resources for patients with recurrent depression and to enlist their assistance in the treatment study.
(12) The analysis presented here enlists two of these approaches, each in modified form, to develop a highly efficient search protocol for Escherichia coli promoters and to provide a relative ranking of these sites showing good agreement with in vitro measurements of promoter strength.
(13) An enlisted US army reservist, he was deployed to Afghanistan in November 2013 and served there until July 2014, according to his service record, released by the US army on Friday.
(14) To demonstrate whether a reduction in clinically significant adverse outcomes truly occurs with LOM, trials will need to enlist larger numbers of patients and employ appropriate outcome measures.
(15) In this connection, it was found to be very useful to enlist the help of the nurse or male nurse as co-leader of the group.
(16) The diagnosis and management of headache in children is a challenge to the clinician, covering as it does a wide range of diagnostic possibilities and enlisting a range of skills from neurosurgery and infectious disease to the psychological.
(17) Only 2 of 155 soldiers enlisted in 1986 and 1987 meeting these criteria were separated for seizure-related complaints.
(18) Results indicated the following: 1) at some point during the exercises, everyone became sleep deprived; 2) the participants who received the most rest of the group were the enlisted headquarters personnel and the pilots; 3) the soldiers who received the least amount of sleep were the commander of the battalion and the maintenance personnel.
(19) Green, who has enlisted his friend Kate Moss to design a range for Topshop, is the closest thing business has to a rock star.
(20) Because of the multiplier effects of SCOR programs, new investigators have been enlisted into arthritis research as issues related to this disease become a focus of investigation throughout universities and medical centers.
Help
Definition:
(v. t.) To furnish with strength or means for the successful performance of any action or the attainment of any object; to aid; to assist; as, to help a man in his work; to help one to remember; -- the following infinitive is commonly used without to; as, "Help me scale yon balcony."
(v. t.) To furnish with the means of deliverance from trouble; as, to help one in distress; to help one out of prison.
(v. t.) To furnish with relief, as in pain or disease; to be of avail against; -- sometimes with of before a word designating the pain or disease, and sometimes having such a word for the direct object.
(v. t.) To change for the better; to remedy.
(v. t.) To prevent; to hinder; as, the evil approaches, and who can help it?
(v. t.) To forbear; to avoid.
(v. t.) To wait upon, as the guests at table, by carving and passing food.
(v. i.) To lend aid or assistance; to contribute strength or means; to avail or be of use; to assist.
(v. t.) Strength or means furnished toward promoting an object, or deliverance from difficulty or distress; aid; ^; also, the person or thing furnishing the aid; as, he gave me a help of fifty dollars.
(v. t.) Remedy; relief; as, there is no help for it.
(v. t.) A helper; one hired to help another; also, thew hole force of hired helpers in any business.
(v. t.) Specifically, a domestic servant, man or woman.
Example Sentences:
(1) In a debate in the House of Commons, I will ask Britain, the US and other allies to convert generalised offers of help into more practical support with greater air cover, military surveillance and helicopter back-up, to hunt down the terrorists who abducted the girls.
(2) This frees the student to experience the excitement and challenge of learning and the joy of helping people.
(3) It comes in defiant journalism, like the story televised last week of a gardener in Aleppo who was killed by bombs while tending his roses and his son, who helped him, orphaned.
(4) It helped pay the bills and caused me to ponder on the disconnection between theory and reality.
(5) However, used effectively, credit can help you to make the most of your money - so long as you are careful!
(6) Confidence is the major prerequisite for a doctor to be able to help his seriously ill patient.
(7) It is entirely proper for serving judges to set out the arguments in high-profile cases to help public understanding of the legal issues, as long as it is done in an even-handed way.
(8) Prompt diagnosis, in which timely diagnostic laparoscopy and ultrasound evaluation of the pelvis may be helpful, provides the opportunity for prompt laparotomy with untwisting of the torsion and stabilization of the adnexa by suture and cystectomy, if possible, extirpation if not.
(9) Forty-five enteropathogenic (enteropathogenic Escherichia coli-like) strains isolated in commercial rabbit farms were subdivided into four biotypes with the help of six carbohydrate fermentation tests, ornithine decarboxylase tests, and motility tests.
(10) Couples in need of help will be "encouraged" to come to a private agreement.
(11) The results may help to explain the diversity in the multidrug-resistant phenotype.
(12) 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.
(13) Cryopreserved autologous blood cells may thus restore some patients with CGL in transformation to chronic-phase disease and so may help to prolong life.
(14) Analysis of risk factors and use of criteria for categorizing severity of disease can be helpful in designing new treatments, identifying potential recipients of such agents, and evaluating outcome of therapy.
(15) The move comes as a poll found that 74% of people want doctors to be allowed to help terminally ill people end their lives.
(16) Unfortunately more than three quantitative data cannot be judged simultaneously without help of mathematical methods.
(17) "Attempts to quantify existential risk inevitably involve a large helping of subjective judgment.
(18) The young European idealist who helped Leon Brittan, the British EU commissioner, to negotiate Chinese entry to the World Trade Organisation, also found his Spanish lawyer wife in Brussels.
(19) Coup leader Captain Amadou Sanogo on Friday pleaded for foreign help to preserve the territorial integrity of the former French colony, a major gold and cotton producer.
(20) The organisation initially focused on education, funding the Indian company BYJU’s, which helps students learn maths and science, and the Nigerian company Andela, which trains African software developers.