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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 :   [ gcide ]

  Help \Help\ (h[e^]lp), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Helped (h[e^]lpt)
     (Obs. imp. Holp (h[=o]lp), p. p. Holpen (h[=o]l"p'n)); p.
     pr. & vb. n. Helping.] [AS. helpan; akin to OS. helpan, D.
     helpen, G. helfen, OHG. helfan, Icel. hj[=a]lpa, Sw. hjelpa,
     Dan. hielpe, Goth. hilpan; cf. Lith. szelpti, and Skr. klp to
     be fitting.]
     1. 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.''
        --Longfellow.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. To furnish with the means of deliverance from trouble; as,
        to help one in distress; to help one out of prison. ``God
        help, poor souls, how idly do they talk!'' --Shak.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     3. 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. ``To help him of his
        blindness.'' --Shak.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              The true calamus helps coughs.        --Gerarde.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     4. To change for the better; to remedy.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              Cease to lament for what thou canst not help.
                                                    --Shak.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     5. To prevent; to hinder; as, the evil approaches, and who
        can help it? --Swift.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     6. To forbear; to avoid.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              I can not help remarking the resemblance betwixt him
              and our author.                       --Pope.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     7. To wait upon, as the guests at table, by carving and
        passing food.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     To help forward, to assist in advancing.
  
     To help off, to help to go or pass away, as time; to assist
        in removing. --Locke.
  
     To help on, to forward; to promote by aid.
  
     To help out, to aid, as in delivering from a difficulty, or
        to aid in completing a design or task.
        [1913 Webster]
  
              The god of learning and of light
              Would want a god himself to help him out. --Swift.
  
     To help over, to enable to surmount; as, to help one over
        an obstacle.
  
     To help to, to supply with; to furnish with; as, to help
        one to soup.
  
     To help up, to help (one) to get up; to assist in rising,
        as after a fall, and the like. ``A man is well holp up
        that trusts to you.'' --Shak.
  
     Syn: To aid; assist; succor; relieve; serve; support;
          sustain; befriend.
  
     Usage: To Help, Aid, Assist. These words all agree in
            the idea of affording relief or support to a person
            under difficulties. Help turns attention especially to
            the source of relief. If I fall into a pit, I call for
            help; and he who helps me out does it by an act of his
            own. Aid turns attention to the other side, and
            supposes co["o]peration on the part of him who is
            relieved; as, he aided me in getting out of the pit; I
            got out by the aid of a ladder which he brought.
            Assist has a primary reference to relief afforded by a
            person who ``stands by'' in order to relieve. It
            denotes both help and aid. Thus, we say of a person
            who is weak, I assisted him upstairs, or, he mounted
            the stairs by my assistance. When help is used as a
            noun, it points less distinctively and exclusively to
            the source of relief, or, in other words, agrees more
            closely with aid. Thus we say, I got out of a pit by
            the help of my friend.
            [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 :   [ gcide ]

  helping \helping\ n.
     1. a quantity of food served as part of a meal.
  
     Syn: portion, serving.
          [WordNet 1.5]
  
     2. the activity of contributing to the fulfillment of a need
        or furtherance of an effort or purpose.
  
     Syn: aid, assistance, help.
          [WordNet 1.5]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :   [ web1913 ]

  Help \Help\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Helped(Obs. imp. Holp, p.
     p. Holpen; p. pr. & vb. n. Helping.] [AS. helpan; akin to
     OS. helpan, D. helpen, G. helfen, OHG. helfan, Icel.
     hj[=a]lpa, Sw. hjelpa, Dan. hielpe, Goth. hilpan; cf. Lith.
     szelpti, and Skr. klp to be fitting.]
     1. 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.''
        --Longfellow.
  
     2. To furnish with the means of deliverance from trouble; as,
        to help one in distress; to help one out of prison. ``God
        help, poor souls, how idly do they talk!'' --Shak.
  
     3. 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. ``To help him of his
        blindness.''

From WordNet (r) 2.0 :   [ wn ]

  helping
       n : an individual quantity of food or drink taken as part of a
           meal; "the helpings were all small"; "his portion was
           larger than hers"; "there's enough for two servings each"
           [syn: portion, serving]

From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  helping
     n.
     1 (lb en countable) A portion or serving, especially of food that one
  takes for oneself, or to which one help oneself.
     2 (lb en figurative countable) An amount or quantity
     vb.
     (present participle of en help nocat=1)

From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]

  helping
     n.
     1 (lb en countable) A portion or serving, especially of food that one
  takes for oneself, or to which one help oneself.
     2 (lb en figurative countable) An amount or quantity
     vb.
     (present participle of en help nocat=1)

From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]

  helping
     n.
     1 (lb en countable) A portion or serving, especially of food that one
  takes for oneself, or to which one help oneself.
     2 (lb en figurative countable) An amount or quantity
     vb.
     (present participle of en help nocat=1)

From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]

  helping
     n.
     1 (lb en countable) A portion or serving, especially of food that one
  takes for oneself, or to which one help oneself.
     2 (lb en figurative countable) An amount or quantity
     vb.
     (present participle of en help nocat=1)

From Finnish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-fi-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  helping
     Englanti n.
     annos
     Englanti vb.
     (en-v-taivm h elp ing)

From Swedish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-sv-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  helping
     Engelska a.
     (avledning en help ordform=prespart)
     Engelska vb.
     (böjning en verb help)

From English-Arabic FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.6.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ara ]

  Helping /hˈɛlpɪŋ/
  المساعدة على

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  helping /hˈɛlpɪŋ/
  pomáhání

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  helping /hˈɛlpɪŋ/
  Portion  [cook.]
           Note: beim Essen
     Synonyms: portion, serving
  
   see: portions, helpings, servings
  

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  helping /hˈɛlpɪŋ/
  helfend
        "If you can't see the difference, there's just no helping you."  - Wenn du den Unterschied nicht erkennst, dann ist dir einfach nicht zu helfen.
   see: help sb., helped, you help, he/she helps, we helped, I/he/she would help, help!, Can I help you?, They help each other., This doesn't help matters., unhelped, I would help her if she only let me.
  

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  helping /hˈɛlpɪŋ/
  helfend, hilfreich 

From English-Hindi FreeDict Dictionary ver. 1.6 :   [ freedict:eng-hin ]

  helping /hˈɛlpɪŋ/ 
  1. एक समय में परोसे जाने वाले भोजन की मात्रा
        "रेल्वे केन्टीन में"helping"भोजन ही मिलता है."

From English-Croatian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.2 :   [ freedict:eng-hrv ]

  helping /hˈɛlpɪŋ/
  pomagali

From English-Hungarian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.1 :   [ freedict:eng-hun ]

  helping /hˈɛlpɪŋ/
  1. ételadag
  2. adag

From English - Polish Piotrowski+Saloni/FreeDict dictionary ver. 0.2 :   [ freedict:eng-pol ]

  helping /ˈhelpɪŋ/ 
    porcja

From English-Turkish FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3 :   [ freedict:eng-tur ]

  helping /hˈɛlpɪŋ/
  1. yardım
  2. bir tabak yemek, porsiyon.

From IPA:en_US :   [ IPA:en_US ]

  

/ˈhɛɫpɪŋ/

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :   [ moby-thesaurus ]

  77 Moby Thesaurus words for "helping":
     accessory, adjuvant, allotment, allowance, ancillary, antepast,
     assistant, assisting, attendant, attending, auxiliary, big end,
     bigger half, bit, bite, budget, chunk, commission, contingent,
     course, cover, cut, deal, dessert, destiny, dish, dividend, dole,
     dollop, end, entree, entremets, equal share, fate, fostering, half,
     halver, help, instrumental, interest, lot, measure, meed, menial,
     mess, ministerial, ministering, ministrant, modicum, moiety,
     nurtural, nutricial, part, percentage, piece, place, plate,
     portion, proportion, quantum, quota, rake-off, ration,
     second helping, segment, service, servile, serving, servitorial,
     share, slice, small share, stake, stock, subservient, subsidiary,
     waiting
  
  

From Stardic English-Chinese Dictionary :   [ stardic ]

  n. 帮助,协助,一份;

From XDICT the English-Chinese dictionary :   [ xdict ]

     n. 食物的一份
     a. 帮助人的,辅助的

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