different between aid vs provide

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /e?d/
• Rhymes: -e?d
• Homophone: aide

Etymology 1

From Middle English aide, eide, ayde, from Old French eide, aide, from aidier, from Latin adi?t?, adi?t?re (“to assist, help”). Cognates include Spanish ayuda, Portuguese ajuda and Italian aiuto.

Alternative forms

• aide
• ayde (obsolete)

Noun

aid (countable and uncountable, plural aids)

1. (uncountable) Help; assistance; succor, relief.
   • 1827, Henry Hallam, The Constitutional History of England

     An unconstitutional method of obtaining aid.

   • “[…] it is not fair of you to bring against mankind double weapons?! Dangerous enough you are as woman alone, without bringing to your aid those gifts of mind suited to problems which men have been accustomed to arrogate to themselves.”

2. (countable) A helper; an assistant.

   • It is not good that man should bee alone, let vs make vnto him an aide like to himselfe.

3. (countable) Something which helps; a material source of help.

4. (countable, Britain) An historical subsidy granted to the crown by Parliament for an extraordinary purpose, such as a war effort.
5. (countable, Britain) An exchequer loan.
6. (countable, law) A pecuniary tribute paid by a vassal to his feudal lord on special occasions.
7. (countable) An aide-de-camp, so called by abbreviation.

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English aiden, from Old French eider, aider, aidier, from Latin adiuto, frequentative of adiuv? (“"assist"”, verb).

Verb

aid (third-person singular simple present aids, present participle aiding, simple past and past participle aided)

1. (transitive) To provide support to; to further the progress of; to help; to assist.
2. (climbing) To climb with the use of aids such as pitons.
   • 1979, American Alpine Journal (page 193)

     Rather than climb into a bottomless off-width crack, we aided an 80-foot A2 to A3 crack to the top of a pedestal. By very tenuous face climbing, we gained entry to the crack, which we followed to a tree beneath the big chimney.

Synonyms

• assist
• befriend
• bestand
• cooperate
• help
• promote
• relieve
• succor
• support
• sustain
• See also Thesaurus:help or Thesaurus:serve

Derived terms

• aidable
• aidance
• aider
• unaided

Related terms

• aidant
• aide-de-camp

Translations

Anagrams

• -iad, Adi, DIA, Dai, Dia, I'd-a, I'da, IAD, Ida, Ida., dai, dia-

Azerbaijani

Etymology

From Arabic ??????? (???id).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??id/

Postposition

aid + dative

1. related to, relating to, having to do with
2. concerning, about

Related terms

• aidiyy?t

References

• “aid” in Obastan.com.

Bau

Noun

aid

1. woman

Further reading

• Hans van der Meer, Bau Organized Phonology Data

Ludian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *aita.

Noun

aid

1. fence

Panim

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a??/

Noun

aid

1. woman

Further reading

• Panim Talking Dictionary

Veps

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *aita.

Noun

aid

1. fence

Inflection

Derived terms

• aidverai

References

• Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007) , “?????, ????????, ??????”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovar? [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika

Võro

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *aita.

Noun

aid (genitive aia, partitive aida)

1. garden

Inflection

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pr?vide? (“I foresee, I act with foresight”). Doublet of purvey.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p???va?d/
• Rhymes: -a?d

Verb

provide (third-person singular simple present provides, present participle providing, simple past and past participle provided)

1. To make a living; earn money for necessities.

2. To act to prepare for something.

3. To establish as a previous condition; to stipulate.

4. To give what is needed or desired, especially basic needs.
5. To furnish (with), cause to be present.
   • 1727, John Arbuthnot, Tables of Ancient Coins, Weights and Measures. Explain'd and exemplify'd in several dissertations

     Rome […] was generally well provided with corn.

6. To make possible or attainable.
7. (obsolete, Latinism) To foresee.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Ben Jonson to this entry?)

8. To appoint to an ecclesiastical benefice before it is vacant. See provisor.
   • 1838, William H. Prescott, History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic

     provide such natives to the to the higher dignities of the church

Usage notes

As seen in the examples, when not used with that for previous conditions, provide is used with the prepositions for (beneficiary; also without preposition, usual for pronouns) and with (object).

Derived terms

• provider

Related terms

• provision

Translations

Anagrams

• prevoid

Galician

Alternative forms

• provinde

Verb

provide

1. second-person plural imperative of provir

Italian

Verb

provide

1. third-person singular past historic of provedere

Anagrams

• deprivo, deprivò
• provedi

Latin

Etymology

From pr?vidus (“prophetic, prudent, cautious”) +? -?, from pr?vide? (“foresee, be cautious”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?pro?.u?i.de?/, [?p?o?u??d?e?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?pro.vi.de/, [?p???vid??]

Adverb

pr?vid? (comparative pr?vidius, superlative pr?vidissim?)

1. carefully, prudently

Verb

pr?vid?

1. second-person singular present active imperative of pr?vide?

Noun

pr?vide

1. singular vocative of pr?vidus

References

• provide in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• provide in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette