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English

Etymology

From save +? -ing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?se?v.??/
• Rhymes: -e?v??

Noun

saving (countable and uncountable, plural savings)

1. A reduction in cost or expenditure.

2. (countable, usually in the plural) Something (usually money) that is saved, particularly money that has been set aside for the future.

3. (uncountable) The action of the verb to save.
4. (law, obsolete) Exception; reservation.

Derived terms

• cost saving
• life savings

Translations

Verb

saving

1. present participle of save

Adjective

saving (comparative more saving, superlative most saving)

1. (theology) That saves someone from damnation; redemptive. [from 14th c.]
2. Preserving; rescuing.

   • He is the saving strength of his anointed.

3. Thrifty; frugal. [from 15th c.]

   a saving cook

   • 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song, Polygon 2006 (A Scots Quair), p. 14:

     Three of her bairns were drowned at sea, fishing off the Bervie braes they had been, but the fourth, the boy Cospatric, him that died the same day as the Old Queen, he was douce and saving and sensible, and set putting the estate to rights.

4. Bringing back in returns or in receipts the sum expended; incurring no loss, though not gainful.

   a saving bargain

   The ship has made a saving voyage.

5. Making reservation or exception.

   a saving clause

6. (in compound adjectives) Relating to making a saving.

Derived terms

• cost-saving
• space-saving
• timesaving
• saving grace

Preposition

saving

1. With the exception of; except; save.

   • And in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it.

2. Without disrespect to.
   • a. 1796, Robert Burns, The Carle of Kellyburn Braes

     Saving your presence.

Anagrams

• Givans, vignas

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