What does helping mean?

Definitions for helping
ˈhɛl pɪŋhelp·ing

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. helping, portion, servingnoun

    an individual quantity of food or drink taken as part of a meal

    "the helpings were all small"; "his portion was larger than hers"; "there's enough for two servings each"

Wiktionary

  1. helpingnoun

    A portion or serving, especially of food that one takes for oneself, or to which one helps oneself;

    She eagerly took a second helping of ice cream.

  2. helpingnoun

    An amount or quantity

ChatGPT

  1. helping

    Helping refers to the act of assisting or aiding someone or making it easier for someone to do something by offering one's services, resources, or abilities. It often involves improving a situation or solving a problem for someone else, often out of kindness, empathy, duty or goodwill. This could be in the form of physical help, emotional support, advice, or material assistance.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Helping

    of Help

British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'helping' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2727

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'helping' in Written Corpus Frequency: #2037

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of helping in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of helping in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of helping in a Sentence

  1. Chen Fengying:

    We cannot be soft with Trump. He is using his 'irrationality' as a tactic and he is trying to confuse us, but if we could accomplish some of the things that he wants us to do - such as IP, market reforms, he'd be helping us. Of course there are risks, those would depend on how we handle those reforms.

  2. Sarah Palin:

    It's a benefit of Jeb Bush to be able to be so fluent in Spanish, because we have a large and wonderful Hispanic population that is helping to build America.

  3. Terry DuBrow:

    When the ‘ Botched ’ doctors show up to the door we hear [ patients ] say ‘ the ‘ Botched ’ doctors are here and now I have hope ’ …. ‘ Botched ’ is now a brand that means hope for helping Paul Nassif problem.

  4. Jeff Yang:

    As we wait for our next helping of ‘Succession,’ apparently coming in spring 2023, ‘The Bear’ provided us with a similarly addictive dose of vividly memorable characters, family drama and eye-popping surprises, albeit on the opposite end of the class spectrum, but is it a comedy or a drama?

  5. Angela Meadows:

    Public health messages and the 'War on Obesity' aren't helping because they frame the fat individual as the villain, and media representations of fat people are almost entirely negative.

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