assistant

Speech parts

1. assistant - Noun

2. assistant - Adjective

3. assistant - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Of the second grade in the staff of the army; as, an assistant surgeon.

One who, or that which, assists; a helper; an auxiliary; a means of help.

An attendant; one who is present.

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Wherever my work may take me in the near future even if you should see me one day within the fortress - you can always count on me as your reliable assistant. Hjalmar Schacht

Be a mere assistant to your unconscious. Do only half the work. The rest will do itself. Jean Cocteau

I know that you observe Christmas Day as you learned it at home. I do not observe it. However, as assistant director of this prison, I allow all the Catholics to observe freely and with some joy this day in this home. Odilo Globocnik

Life is a campus: in a Greenwich Village bookstore, looking for a New Yorker collection, I asked of an earnest-looking assistant where I might find the humour section. Peering over her granny glasses, she enquired, "Humour studies would that be, sir?" Keith Waterhouse

X-rays ... I am afraid of them. I stopped experimenting with them two years ago, when I came near to losing my eyesight and Dally, my assistant practically lost the use of both of his arms. Thomas Edison

Eat and take belly, because tomorrow the assistant of the executioner will come to take the skin. Scanian Proverb

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