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helper

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I know it's not the same thing, but seeing the logo and installing the new 'helper' gave me a good feeling.

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Definitions2
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Quick take

a person who contributes to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose; "my invaluable assistant"; "they hired additional help to finish the work"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of helper gathered in one view.

noun

a person who contributes to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose; "my invaluable assistant"; "they hired additional help to finish the work"

noun

a person who helps people or institutions (especially with financial help)

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for helper.

noun

a person who contributes to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose; "my invaluable assistant"; "they hired additional help to finish the work"

See also: assistant, help, supporter

noun

a person who helps people or institutions (especially with financial help)

See also: benefactor

Example sentences

1

I know it's not the same thing, but seeing the logo and installing the new 'helper' gave me a good feeling.

2

Mochiweb, Yaws, Misultin and Cowboy give you helper functions for writing a response on the socket.

3

Debian packages usually use a helper program called 'dh_installinit' to install and manage their init scripts.

4

Then we got into the actual design of a class like Mutex and the helper MutexLock wrapper normally used with it in the depot, and so on, and so forth.

5

Put it in a mixin, as a module function, in a helper, as a class method; there are lots of ways to do this that don't involve extra code, nounifying verbs, and state.

6

Or some function, which was meant to only be a helper function for other functions that were the API, would be called directly by some ignorant and/or lazy programmer.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use helper in a sentence?

I know it's not the same thing, but seeing the logo and installing the new 'helper' gave me a good feeling.

What does helper mean?

a person who contributes to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose; "my invaluable assistant"; "they hired additional help to finish the work"

What part of speech is helper?

helper is commonly used as noun.