aid vs aide
Definitions
noun
- a person or thing that is a resource that helps make something easier or possible to do
- the work of providing treatment for or attending to someone or something
- gift of money or other material help to support a person or cause
- the activity of contributing to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose
verb
- give help or assistance; be of service
- improve the condition of
Examples
Smith, who is also a director of Norwich City Football Club, said her CBE was a "very, very great honour".
Commander Laurel D' ken smiled wryly as the blue haired officer said to Allison, ‘We'll need to nursemaid them a bit but I think they'd be able to manage well enough.’
A spokesman said: ‘Snow will continue through the day with a few dry interludes and it will slowly improve by the afternoon with snow turning more showery.’
Definitions
noun
- someone who acts as assistant
- an officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer
Examples
He first constructed a horizontal wheel that he named a Danaide, and later devised another, the Vortex Water Wheel, which he patented in July 1850 and which came to be used extensively.
For the life of me, I cannot fathom your continued application of the irrebuttable presumption that any individual held and interrogated by the admin is necessarily a murderer or an aider of a murderer.
Aides hovered round like royal courtiers before he made a fleeting appearance climbing on board the City of Chicago.
