different between assist vs suffer

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

Etymology

From Middle English suffren, from Anglo-Norman suffrir, from Latin suffer? (“to offer, hold up, bear, suffer”), from sub- (“up, under”) + fer? (“I carry”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?er- (“to bear, carry”). Displaced native teen.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?s?f?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?s?f?/
• Rhymes: -?f?(?)
• Hyphenation: suf?fer

Verb

suffer (third-person singular simple present suffers, present participle suffering, simple past and past participle suffered)

1. (intransitive) To undergo hardship.

   Synonym: bear

2. (intransitive) To feel pain.

   Synonyms: agonize, anguish, thole; see also Thesaurus:suffer

3. (intransitive) To become worse.

   Synonyms: deteriorate, worsen; see also Thesaurus:worsen
4. (transitive) To endure, undergo.

   Synonyms: bear, dree, thole; see also Thesaurus:tolerate
5. (transitive, archaic) To allow.

   Synonym: permit

   • 1938, The U.S. Fair Labor Standards Act, 29 U.S.C. § 203:

     "Employ" includes to suffer or permit to work.

   • 1978, Section 31-36 of the Code of Montgomery County, Maryland:

     […] it shall be unlawful for any person to cause, allow, permit or suffer any vehicle to be parked […] beyond the period of time established by the duration of the parking meter […]

Derived terms

Related terms

• sublate
• sublation

Translations

Anagrams

• ruffes, suffre

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?f?r

Etymology 1

Adjective

suffer

1. Comparative form of suf

Etymology 2

Noun

suffer m (plural suffers)

1. Alternative form of sufferd

Latin

Verb

suffer

1. second-person singular present active imperative of suffer?