helper
see also: Helper
Pronunciation
Helper
Proper noun
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see also: Helper
Pronunciation
- (America) IPA: /ˈhɛlpɚ/
helper (plural helpers)
- One who helps; an aide.
- That which helps; anything serving to assist.
- 2005, PC World (volume 23, page 158)
- While Adobe's Acrobat Reader, Macromedia's Flash player, and other common plug-ins suggest themselves the moment you encounter a site that requires them, other browser helpers are harder to find.
- 2012, Jude Deveraux, The Mulberry Tree (page 84)
- He no longer liked food that had “helper” in the name, such as Hamburger Helper and Tuna Helper. Patsy said he'd become uppity, and maybe, when it came to food, he had.
- 2014, Neale Blackwood, Advanced Excel Reporting for Management Accountants (page 154)
- If a particular calculation is to be used a few times, it makes sense to put it in a helper cell so that it can be referred to by other formulas.
- 2005, PC World (volume 23, page 158)
- (Singapore) A person who does cleaning and cooking in a family home, or in a market; domestic employee.
- (rail, US) a locomotive that assists a train, usually on steep gradients.
- banker (locomotive)
- French: assistant, assistante
- German: Helfer, Helferin
- Italian: aiutante, assistente, supporto, apprendista
- Portuguese: ajudante
- Russian: помо́щник
- Spanish: ayudante, ayudador
Helper
Proper noun
- A city in Carbon County, Utah, which got its name from the practice of the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad of attaching helper engines to trains there.
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