assist

English

Etymology

From French assister, from Latin assistere, both words meaning, "to assist."

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ɪst

Noun

assist (plural assists)

1. A helpful action or an act of giving.

   The foundation gave a much needed assist to the shelter.

2. (sports) a statistic used in different sports to quantify the act of helping another player score points or goals; in baseball, an assist is defensive, allowing a teammate to record a putout.

   He had two assists in the game.

Translations

statistical recognition of making a pass

• Bulgarian: асистенция (bg) (asistencija)
• Finnish: syöttö (fi)
• Icelandic: stoðsending (is) f
• Portuguese: assistência (pt) f

• Russian: результативная передача (ru) (rezultatívnaja peredáča) f, голевой пас (ru) (golevój pas) m
• Serbo-Croatian: asistencija (sh) f
• Turkish: asist (tr)

Verb

assist (third-person singular simple present assists, present participle assisting, simple past and past participle assisted)

1. (archaic) To stand (at a place) or to (an opinion), to attend a theatrical performance.

   A great part of the nobility assisted to his opinion.

2. To help.
   • 2012 April 15, Phil McNulty, “Tottenham 1-5 Chelsea”, BBC:

     The referee seemed well placed to award the goal, but video evidence suggested the protests were well founded and the incident only strengthens the case of those lobbying for technology to assist officials.

3. (sports) To make a pass that leads directly towards scoring.

Translations

help

• Armenian: օգնել (hy) (ōgnel)
• Bulgarian: помагам (bg) (pomagam), съдействам (bg) (sǎdejstvam)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 幫 (cmn), 帮 (cmn) (bāng), 幫助 (cmn), 帮助 (cmn) (bāngzhù), 協助 (cmn), 协助 (cmn) (xiézhù)

• Czech: pomáhat (cs), asistovat (cs)
• Dutch: assisteren (nl), bijstaan (nl)
• Finnish: auttaa (fi), avustaa (fi)
• French: assister (fr), aider (fr)
• German: assistieren, helfen, beistehen, unterstützen
• Hiligaynon: abáng-ábang
• Italian: assistere (it), aiutare (it)

• Japanese: 手伝う (tetsudau)
• Latin: subvenio (la)
• Maori: āwhina (mi), whakamahiri (mi)
• Nahuatl: macoa
• Portuguese: assistir, prestar assistência, ajudar
• Romanian: asista (ro), ajuta (ro)
• Russian: помогать (ru) (pomogát') impf., помочь (ru) (pomóč) pf.; содействовать (ru) (sodéjstvovat') impf., посодействовать (ru) (posodéjstvovat') pf.; способствовать (ru) (sposóbstvovat') impf., поспособствовать (ru) (posposóbstvovat') pf.; ассистировать (ru) (assistírovat') impf.
• Spanish: ayudar (es)
• Swedish: assistera (sv), hjälpa (sv), bistå (sv) (med hjälp), stödja (sv)

to make a pass in a sport

• Bulgarian: асистирам (bg) (asistiram)
• Dutch: voorzetten, een voorzet geven
• Finnish: syöttää (fi)

• Spanish: asistir (es)
• Swedish: göra en assist (sv)

Anagrams

• stasis

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Italian

Etymology

English

Noun

assist m (invariable)

1. (sports) assist

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Swedish

Noun

assist c

1. (sports) Make a pass that allows the own team to score (a goal).

Declension

Declension of assist

	singular		plural
Common	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	assist	assisten	assister	assisterna
genitive	assists	assistens	assisters	assisternas