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HELPER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A person who helps people or institutions (especially with financial help)
Synonyms:
benefactor; helper
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("helper" is a kind of...):
good person (a person who is good to other people)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "helper"):
uncle (a source of help and advice and encouragement)
sparer (someone who refrains from injuring or destroying)
deliverer; rescuer; savior; saviour (a person who rescues you from harm or danger)
provider (someone who provides the means for subsistence)
patron; sponsor; supporter (someone who supports or champions something)
offerer; offeror (someone who presents something to another for acceptance or rejection)
accommodator; obliger (someone who performs a service or does a favor)
liberator (someone who releases people from captivity or bondage)
do-gooder; humanitarian; improver (someone devoted to the promotion of human welfare and to social reforms)
good Samaritan (a person who voluntarily offers help or sympathy in times of trouble)
fairy godmother (a generous benefactor)
donor ((medicine) someone who gives blood or tissue or an organ to be used in another person (the host))
bestower; conferrer; donor; giver; presenter (person who makes a gift of property)
bondsman; bondswoman (someone who signs a bond as surety for someone else)
benefactress (a woman benefactor)
Derivation:
help (give help or assistance; be of service)
help (contribute to the furtherance of)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A person who contributes to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose
Example:
they hired additional help to finish the work
Synonyms:
assistant; help; helper; supporter
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("helper" is a kind of...):
worker (a person who works at a specific occupation)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "helper"):
birthing coach; doula; labor coach; monitrice (an assistant (often the father of the soon-to-be-born child) who provides support for a woman in labor by encouraging her to use techniques learned in childbirth-preparation classes)
underboss (an assistant or second-in-command to a chief (especially in a crime syndicate))
fashion model; manakin; manikin; mannequin; mannikin; model (a woman who wears clothes to display fashions)
model; poser (a person who poses for a photographer or painter or sculptor)
paraprofessional (a trained worker who is not a member of a profession but who assists a professional)
powder monkey (someone who carries explosives (as from the magazine to the guns on board a warship))
prompter; theater prompter (someone who assists a performer by providing the next words of a forgotten speech)
chief assistant; man Friday; right-hand man (the most helpful assistant)
secretarial assistant; secretary (an assistant who handles correspondence and clerical work for a boss or an organization)
sidesman ((Church of England) an assistant to the churchwarden; collects offerings of money in the church)
foot soldier; subordinate; subsidiary; underling (an assistant subject to the authority or control of another)
water boy; waterer (an assistant who supplies drinking water)
whipper-in (huntsman's assistant in managing the hounds)
cat's-paw; instrument; pawn (a person used by another to gain an end)
enforcer; hatchet man (one whose job it is to execute unpleasant tasks for a superior)
girl Friday (a female assistant who has a range of duties)
flower girl (a young girl who carries flowers in a (wedding) procession)
facilitator (someone who makes progress easier)
event planner (someone who plans social events as a profession (usually for government or corporate officials))
actor's assistant; dresser (a wardrobe assistant for an actor)
deputy; lieutenant (an assistant with power to act when his superior is absent)
dental assistant (an assistant to a dentist)
bat boy ((baseball) a boy who takes care of bats and other baseball equipment)
attendant; attender; tender (someone who waits on or tends to or attends to the needs of another)
aide; auxiliary (someone who acts as assistant)
accomplice; confederate (a person who joins with another in carrying out some plan (especially an unethical or illegal plan))
coadjutor (an assistant to a bishop)
Derivation:
help (give help or assistance; be of service)
help (contribute to the furtherance of)
Context examples:
Helper T-lymphocyte marker that functions as a receptor for MHC class II antigen; also acts as the receptor for HIV.
(CD4 Antigen, NIH CRISP Thesaurus)
The event of providing fragments of foreign proteins, including viruses and bacteria, to the helper T cells.
(Antigen Presentation, NCI Thesaurus)
B cells are not activated by antigen on their own, but require interaction with helper CD4+ T cells to become activated and proliferate.
(Antigen Dependent B Cell Activation Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)
This gene plays a role in facilitating contacts between helper T lymphocytes and antigen-presenting cells.
(CD58 Gene, NCI Thesaurus)
This bispecific monoclonal antibody brings CEA-expressing tumor cells and cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs) and helper T lymphocytes (HTLs) together, which may result in the CTL- and HTL-mediated cell death of CEA-expressing cells.
(Anti-CEA BiTE Monoclonal Antibody MEDI-565, NCI Thesaurus)
This allele, which encodes T-cell surface antigen CD2 immunoprotein, plays a role in immune recognition and facilitates helper T lymphocyte contact with antigen-presenting cells.
(CD2 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)
These cells have the characteristic T3 surface marker and may be further divided into subsets according to function, such as helper, cytotoxic, etc.
(Murine T-Lymphocytes, NCI Thesaurus)
"Sir," I said, "you could have no better claim on me than that you were a friend and helper of Lucy Westenra." And I held out my hand.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Vaccination with PCLUS 6.1-18MN may stimulate the host immune system to mount cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL) and T helper cell responses, and induce the production of neutralizing antibodies.
(PCLUS 6.1-18MN, NCI Thesaurus)
This agent also inhibits production of tumor necrosis factor-alpha and interferon-gamma, while it induces Th2-like (T-helper 2) cytokine production, thereby inhibiting Th1-mediated (T-helper 1) inflammatory and autoimmune responses.
(Pentoxifylline, NCI Thesaurus)
