different between assistant vs offsider

English

Alternative forms

• assistaunt (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle French assistant, from assister.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??s?st?nt/

Adjective

assistant (not comparable) (attributive)

1. Having a subordinate or auxiliary position.

   an assistant surgeon

2. Helping; lending aid or support; auxiliary.
   • 1790, James Beattie, Elements of Moral Science

     Genius and learning […] are mutually and greatly assistant to each other.

   • The person principally assistant on this occasion, indeed the only one who did any service, or seemed likely to do any, was the landlady […]

Translations

Noun

assistant (plural assistants)

1. (obsolete) Someone who is present; a bystander, a witness.
2. A person who assists or helps someone else.
3. (Britain) Sales assistant.
4. A software tool that provides assistance in some task, a wizard program.

   Synonym: wizard

Translations

Related terms

• assist
• assistance

References

Anagrams

• Satanists, satanists, stanitsas

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.sis.t??/

Verb

assistant

1. present participle of assister

Noun

assistant m (plural assistants, feminine assistante)

1. assistant

Derived terms

• assistant numérique personnel

Further reading

• “assistant” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Latin

Verb

assistant

1. third-person plural present active subjunctive of assist?

Middle French

Verb

assistant (feminine singular assistante, masculine plural assistans, feminine plural assistantes)

1. present participle of assister
2. (may be preceded by en, invariable) gerund of assister

Noun

assistant m (plural assistans)

1. assistant (person who is present)

Norman

Etymology

Borrowed from English assistant.

Noun

assistant m (plural assistants, feminine assistante)

1. (Jersey) assistant

English

Etymology

offside +? -er

Pronunciation

Noun

offsider (plural offsiders)

1. (Australia, New Zealand, informal) A partner, assistant, or deputy.
   • 1987, Jill Bowen, Kidman: The Forgotten King, 2010, unnumbered page,

     Kidman, riding hell for leather and carrying a heavy stockwhip, caught up with him soon after, or rather with his offsider, who was tailing the mob, and demanded an explanation for their trespassing.

     “Don?t ask me,” said the offsider. “You see the boss.”

   • 2006, Michael Roberts, 50 Years of Television in Australia, page 59,

     With the 2005 incarnation of Temptation, Livinia Nixon has completed the trifecta of TV seconds: variety offsider, game show hostess and weather girl.

   • 2007, Andrew Fraser, Court in the Middle, 2010, unnumbered page,

     Tom also brought an offsider. I will never forget the look on the faces of the airline staff when Big Tony hauled his shooter out and slammed it on the counter. Tom and his sidekick did the same. I couldn?t believe these blokes were armed and how cool everyone was about it.

Anagrams

• dries off