different between saving vs assistance

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

Alternative forms

• assistaunce

Etymology

From Middle English assistance, from Middle French assistance, from Medieval Latin assistentia, from Latin assist? (“I stand at”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??s?s.t?ns/

Noun

assistance (usually uncountable, plural assistances)

1. Aid; help; the act or result of assisting.

Derived terms

• public assistance

Translations

French

Etymology

From Late Latin assistentia.

Noun

assistance f (plural assistances)

1. assistance
2. audience

Derived terms

• assistance publique

Related terms

• assistant

Further reading

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