aide vs aid
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.
Aides hovered round like royal courtiers before he made a fleeting appearance climbing on board the City of Chicago.
Remember the whole sex-text thing he had going with an 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".
‘In the absence of those assurances, we will have no choice but to ballot for industrial action,’ he said.
Leaked Reports Detail Iran's Aid for Iraqi Militias," blared the headline on afront page story inThe New York Times, which went on to report on several incidents recounted in WikiLeaks documents that journalist Michael Gordon called "the shadow war between the United States and Iraqi militias backed by Iran's Revolutionary Guards.
