different between assist vs bestead

English

Etymology

From Middle English assisten, from Old French assister (“to assist, to attend”), from Latin assist? (“stand at, bestand”, verb).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??s?st/
• Hyphenation: as?sist
• Rhymes: -?st

Verb

assist (third-person singular simple present assists, present participle assisting, simple past and past participle assisted)

1. To help.
2. (sports) To make a pass that leads directly towards scoring.
3. (medicine) To help compensate for what is missing with the help of a medical technique or therapy.
4. (archaic) To stand (at a place) or to (an opinion).

   A great part of the nobility assisted to his opinion.

5. (now archaic) To be present (at an event, occasion etc.).
   • 1789, Edward Gibbon, Memoirs of My Life, Penguin 1990, p. 138:

     I assisted with pleasure at the representation of several tragedies and comedies.

   • 1967, The Rev. Loren Gavitt (ed.), Saint Augustine's Prayer Book: A Book of Devotion for members of the Episcopal Church, revised edition, West Park, NY: Holy Cross Publications, p. 8:

     To assist at Mass every Sunday and Holy Day of Obligation.

Derived terms

Related terms

• assistant
• assistance

Translations

Noun

assist (plural assists)

1. A helpful action or an act of giving.

   The foundation gave a much needed assist to the shelter.

2. (sports) The act of helping another player score points or goals
   1. (soccer) A decisive pass made to the goal scorer
      • 2016, David Hytner, Mesut Özil has Arsenal daring to dream of Premier League glory (in The Guardian, 1 January 2016)[2]

        Özil has 16 assists in the Premier League and three goals; he has two more goals in the Champions League. On Monday, he took Bournemouth apart in the 2-0 win at the Emirates Stadium, setting up the first for Gabriel and scoring the second himself.

   2. (baseball) A defensive play, allowing a teammate to record a putout.

   He had two assists in the game.

Derived terms

• assistful
• assistless

Translations

Anagrams

• -stasis, sistas, stasis

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English assist.

Noun

assist m (invariable)

1. (sports) assist

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from English assist.

Noun

assist c

1. (sports) Make a pass that allows the own team to score (a goal).

Declension

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?d

Etymology 1

From be- +? stead (“to support, help”).

Alternative forms

• bested

Verb

bestead (third-person singular simple present besteads, present participle besteading, simple past besteaded, past participle bestead)

1. (transitive) To help, assist.
   • And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry: and it shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse their king and their God, and look upward.
2. (transitive) To profit; benefit; serve; avail.
   • 1859, Southern literary messenger: Volume 28:

     With forty sous which remained, he went to a low gambling house, where fortune, or something surer to the skilful practitioner, so well besteaded him that he was able to clothe himself decently preparatory to entering Frascati's, the fashionable hell of Paris—a den of abomination early suppressed on the accession of Louis Philippe to the French throne.

Synonyms

• (help; assist): aid, lend a hand; See also Thesaurus:help
• (profit; benefit; serve; avail): bestand; See also Thesaurus:serve

Derived terms

• besteading

Etymology 2

From be- +? stead (“place”).

Verb

bestead (third-person singular simple present besteads, present participle besteading, simple past and past participle besteaded)

1. (transitive) To take the place of; replace.

Etymology 3

From be- + Old Norse staddr (“placed”), later assimilated to Etymology 1, above.

Alternative forms

• bested

Adjective

bestead (not comparable)

1. (archaic) Placed (in a given situation); beset.
2. (obsolete) Disposed mentally; affected.

   sorrowfully bested

3. (obsolete) Provided; furnished.

Anagrams

• beasted, bed teas, bed-teas, debates