helping
the act of a person or thing that helps.
a portion of food served to a person at one time: That's his third helping of ice cream.
giving aid, assistance, support, or the like.
Origin of helping
1Other words from helping
- help·ing·ly, adverb
- un·help·ing, adjective
Words Nearby helping
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How to use helping in a sentence
Each day, we’re served a heaping helping of heat and humidity, with a side of widely scattered storms.
D.C.-area forecast: Heat and humidity barely budge through the weekend | David Streit | August 26, 2021 | Washington PostSan Diego Unified School Board members Sharon Whitehurst-Payne and Richard Barrera clapped back, calling Montgomery Steppe disingenuous, and said she should do a little more helping and a little less question-asking.
For the moment, at least, it appears there’s some appetite for a generous helping of giant computer chips.
The World’s Biggest AI Chip Now Comes Stock With 2.6 Trillion Transistors | Jason Dorrier | April 25, 2021 | Singularity HubPut it all together, and you get a team that’s not quite ready to break into the Champions League and Europa League spots, but possesses a clear identity and adds a delightful helping of chaos to every match.
Leeds United Is Scoring (And Getting Scored On) Like Nobody Else In The Premier League | Nicholas Som | March 10, 2021 | FiveThirtyEightMiles’s tone swings all this speed-herstory along, with a giant helping of feminist theory.
Meet the forgotten rebels and quiet revolutionaries of women’s history | Lisa Birnbach | March 5, 2021 | Washington Post
Stephanie Giorgio, a classical musician, credits The Class for helping her cope with anxiety, focus, fear, and self-doubt.
How Taryn Toomey’s ‘The Class’ Became New York’s Latest Fitness Craze | Lizzie Crocker | January 9, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTThat kind of compassion might go a long way toward helping us begin to respond to a hurting world.
Congress loves to be Scroogey when it comes to helping the poor at Christmastime.
To GOP Congress, as Usual, It’s Welfare on the Chopping Block | Monica Potts | December 25, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIt was because of Delta that I actually started helping out in the community, volunteering.
How A Company’s Support of Gay Employees Helped One of Them To Come Out | | December 24, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTObjectively, they are not just riding with the tide, but helping to guide its very direction.
I only saw the glitter of a bayonet which a Mexican thrust into his shoulder, at the very moment he was helping me up.
Recollective Analysis, or Analysis for the purpose of helping to learn by heart, is not an originating or manufacturing process.
Assimilative Memory | Marcus Dwight Larrowe (AKA Prof. A. Loisette)He saw Lettice and his cousin helping towards this exquisite deliverance somehow.
The Wave | Algernon BlackwoodA story or narrative is invented for the purpose of helping the student, as it is claimed, to memorise it.
Assimilative Memory | Marcus Dwight Larrowe (AKA Prof. A. Loisette)This would be a device for helping him to revive this hitherto unrecallable name.
Assimilative Memory | Marcus Dwight Larrowe (AKA Prof. A. Loisette)
British Dictionary definitions for helping
/ (ˈhɛlpɪŋ) /
a single portion of food taken at a meal
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