assist
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /əˈsɪst/
Audio (US) (file) - Hyphenation: as‧sist
- Rhymes: -ɪst
Verb
assist (third-person singular simple present assists, present participle assisting, simple past and past participle assisted)
- (archaic) To stand (at a place) or to (an opinion).
- A great part of the nobility assisted to his opinion.
- (archaic) To attend (with at)
- 1967, The Rev. Loren Gavitt (ed.), Saint Augustine's Prayer Book: A Book of Devotion for members of the Episcopal Church, revised edition, West Park, NY: Holy Cross Publications, p. 8:
- To assist at Mass every Sunday and Holy Day of Obligation.
- 1967, The Rev. Loren Gavitt (ed.), Saint Augustine's Prayer Book: A Book of Devotion for members of the Episcopal Church, revised edition, West Park, NY: Holy Cross Publications, p. 8:
- To help.
- (sports) To make a pass that leads directly towards scoring.
- (medicine) To help compensate for what is missing with the help of a medical technique or therapy.
Related terms
Translations
help
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Noun
assist (plural assists)
- A helpful action or an act of giving.
- The foundation gave a much needed assist to the shelter.
- (sports) The act of helping another player score points or goals
- (soccer) A decisive pass made to the goal scorer
- 2016, David Hytner, Mesut Özil has Arsenal daring to dream of Premier League glory (in The Guardian, 1 January 2016)
- Özil has 16 assists in the Premier League and three goals; he has two more goals in the Champions League. On Monday, he took Bournemouth apart in the 2-0 win at the Emirates Stadium, setting up the first for Gabriel and scoring the second himself.
- 2016, David Hytner, Mesut Özil has Arsenal daring to dream of Premier League glory (in The Guardian, 1 January 2016)
- (baseball) A defensive play, allowing a teammate to record a putout.
- He had two assists in the game.
- (soccer) A decisive pass made to the goal scorer
Derived terms
Translations
statistical recognition of making a pass
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(soccer): a pass that is decisive in scoring a goal
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Swedish
Declension
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Nominative | assist | assisten | assister | assisterna |
Genitive | assists | assistens | assisters | assisternas |
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