What does helping mean?

Definitions for helping
ˈhɛl pɪŋhelp·ing

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. helping, portion, servingnoun

    an individual quantity of food or drink taken as part of a meal

    "the helpings were all small"; "his portion was larger than hers"; "there's enough for two servings each"

Wiktionary

  1. helpingnoun

    A portion or serving, especially of food that one takes for oneself, or to which one helps oneself;

    She eagerly took a second helping of ice cream.

  2. helpingnoun

    An amount or quantity

ChatGPT

  1. helping

    Helping refers to the act of assisting or aiding someone or making it easier for someone to do something by offering one's services, resources, or abilities. It often involves improving a situation or solving a problem for someone else, often out of kindness, empathy, duty or goodwill. This could be in the form of physical help, emotional support, advice, or material assistance.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Helping

    of Help

British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'helping' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2727

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'helping' in Written Corpus Frequency: #2037

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of helping in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of helping in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of helping in a Sentence

  1. Caesar Sengupta:

    As merchants go digital, Dunzo is helping small businesses in their digital transformation journey.

  2. Lawrence MacAulay:

    Canada has the best farmers and food processors in the world. We are a global leader in agricultural production, and the sector is of great importance to our economy, our trade and our jobs. This is why the Government of Canada has targeted agri-food as key to Canada’s path to prosperity, and to helping strengthen the middle class.”

  3. Radoslav Soth:

    I find the best part about hosting is making new international friends, multiplying contacts abroad, as well as the feeling of helping other people to get the best experience as a gay visitor in another city.

  4. Nirmal Singh:

    Our family is overwhelmed and grateful for the amount of support my father received after this horrible assault. He has now arrived back in India, where he can receive the additional care and support he needs in this difficult time from our family, we are hopeful that a suspect will be arrested, because we see this as an attack on all who wear turbans and other articles of faith -- and even though my father has left New York, we will do everything we can to continue helping the investigation.

  5. Tim Kaine:

    We have the availability of overwhelming air power, and we have boots on the ground that are ready and eager to fight -- the Peshmerga -- and they lack sufficient tools and equipment to do so. we cannot police a region that won't police itself, and so the ground troops need to be from the region, but the United States's strong support, via the air campaign, via training and equipping, helping guide the air campaign to make it effective -- that's what we should do.

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