(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.
Whelp
Definition:
(n.) One of the young of a dog or a beast of prey; a puppy; a cub; as, a lion's whelps.
(n.) A child; a youth; -- jocosely or in contempt.
(n.) One of the longitudinal ribs or ridges on the barrel of a capstan or a windless; -- usually in the plural; as, the whelps of a windlass.
(n.) One of the teeth of a sprocket wheel.
(v. i.) To bring forth young; -- said of the female of the dog and some beasts of prey.
(v. t.) To bring forth, as cubs or young; to give birth to.
Example Sentences:
(1) Pancreatic secretion was evaluated in eight pregnant female mongrel dogs prepared with Thomas duodenal and gastric fistulae, during pregnancy (corresponding to the third trimester in humans), during the puerperium, and several months after whelping.
(2) One of seven female coyotes (Canis latrans) captured in Webb County, Texas during September 1986 and confined and mated in holding facilities at Millville, Utah whelped the following spring.
(3) After all pups were whelped, each dog was euthanatized and necropsied, and the testis and epididymis were examined microscopically.
(4) Further consideration is given to its use to estimate the time of ovulation retrospectively and estimate the time of whelping prospectively.
(5) Large cells, probably of uterine symplasma origin, were observed in vaginal lavages following whelping or pseudopregnancy.
(6) Final body weight (FBW) of the whelps was to be predicted from their body weight (BW) in early August (r = 0.689).
(7) They are, however, expected to announce a deal for the Norwegian whelp Martin Odegaard any time now.
(8) It is probable that all breeds of dogs are at risk for these or other traits that influence whelping and neonatal care.
(9) Six bitches were sampled daily, for 10 days, before whelping and then, together with four puppies per litter, at whelping (day 11) and at 1 and 7 days thereafter.
(10) In a second experiment, female mink were provided diets containing 20 ppm ZEN, 20 ppm ZEN plus 0.5% HSCAS or a control diet from 1 January 1989 through whelping (25 April to 15 May 1989).
(11) The malformation rate from two cohorts of females whelping at different times of the year was low (less than 1.0%) and not significantly different.
(12) This included proportion of mink breeding (47 to 100%), proportion giving birth (33 to 80%), and average litter size (2.6 to 4.0 kits per whelping female).
(13) Finally, morphometric analyses revealed a significant increase in epithelial and connective tissue compartment thicknesses, as well as a marked increase in the volume fraction occupied by glands between 1 day and 161 days after dogs were whelped.
(14) Enzyme activities in bitches' serum remained within the normal range for adult dogs throughout whelping and lactation.
(15) Herpesvirus was isolated from the brain, lung, liver, spleen, kidney and intestine of one of the affected litter which died on day 10 after whelping.
(16) A smaller decrease in all 3 measures occurred between 161 and 337 days after the dogs were whelped.
(17) Beagle pups were delivered by cesarean section six days before their predicted whelping date and exposed to an alternating protocol of asphyxial episodes known to produce IVH.
(18) Both veterinary surgeon and dog breeder should be involved in assessing the whelping capability of brood bitches as one essential point in the selection of sound stock.
(19) The fifth bitch did not have elevated progesterone during the induced estrus, and upon return to estrus one month later was successfully bred and whelped a normal litter of 10 pups.
(20) Ip treated dogs whelped 5 pups; im 7 pups; and sc, 5 pups.