(transitive) To provide assistance to (someone or something).
Used in a Sentence
helped
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for helped.
Editorial note
Our expertise in deep neural networks helped us achieve the world’s best published image labeling results [ImageNet 2013].
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Definitions4
Parts of speech1
Quick take
(transitive) To provide assistance to (someone or something).
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of helped gathered in one view.
(intransitive) To provide assistance.
(transitive) To contribute in some way to.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for helped.
verb
(transitive) To provide assistance to (someone or something).
verb
(intransitive) To provide assistance.
verb
(transitive) To contribute in some way to.
verb
(transitive) To assist (a person) in getting something, especially food or drink at table; used with to.
Example sentences
Our expertise in deep neural networks helped us achieve the world’s best published image labeling results [ImageNet 2013].
It helped him to maintain power til his death, but at the cost of running the country into the ground.
Thus the idea that free-speech on the internet helped justice in this case is untrue.
Can someone brighten my day and tell me a way twitter has helped us, somehow?
This is partially due to Coffee consumption levels i'm sure, but DIY seemingly helped to make my mind (and body) more consistent.
This product has helped change the way people spend money on ads.
MTV became hugely popular and helped gain popularity for a wide variety of different music that might not have become nearly as popular otherwise.
Some of todays services like StreetView would have helped a lot.
I can't see the parallel here, or how that practice would have helped PagerDuty.
I don't think twitter's discourse ever helped anyone, any group, or any society.
It's helped me be an effective communicator and collaborator.
The collective bargaining thing is a non-starter IMO but it would be nice to have an organization that looked out for developers legislatively, helped freelancers with contracts, etc.
Quote examples
"[Maisey McMaster, financial manager] helped calculate whether the firm could afford to gradually raise everyone’s salary to $70,000 over a three-year period"
The poster wrote that he accepts "the best way to do this is to build something awesome, show it to people, and have them be so excited about how much it helped them that they jump at the chance to show others".
If the mafia takes away 20% of your income (and also the people around you), and then comes back to you 2 years later to report what they did with the money: " Your money and the one from your friends helped me buy this new house on the lake, and this private jet.
> so those that implement advertising in an acceptable way get crushed anyway I have yet to see any ad blocker that blocks a simple link along with text like "I used this and here's how it helped me".
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use helped in a sentence?
Our expertise in deep neural networks helped us achieve the world’s best published image labeling results [ImageNet 2013].
What does helped mean?
(transitive) To provide assistance to (someone or something).
What part of speech is helped?
helped is commonly used as verb.