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ASSISTER

Definition: ASSISTER

ASSISTER

Noun

1. An assistant; a helper.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "ASSISTER" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1651. (references)


Synonyms within Context: ASSISTER

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Presence

Verb: exist in space, be present; Adjective: assister; make one of, make one at; look on, attend, remain; find oneself, present oneself; show one's face; fall in the way of, occur in a place; lie, stand; occupy; be there.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: ASSISTER

English words defined with "ASSISTER": Assistor. (references)
Non-English Usage: "ASSISTER" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

French (abet, accomodate, aid, assist, attend, be present, help, present, sit in, witness).

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Modern Translation: ASSISTER

Language Translations for "ASSISTER"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Russian 

  

ассистент (adjutant, assistant, assistant professor, assistent, assistor, asst). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: ASSISTER

Derivations

Words beginning with "ASSISTER": assisters. (additional references)


Misspellings

"ASSISTER" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: asi-tere. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "ASSISTER"

Words rhyming with "ASSISTER" (pronounced 'As*sist"er'): Abaser, Abater, Abider, Abjurer, Abridger, Absconder, Absenter, Absolver, Absorber, Abstainer, Abstracter, Abuser, Acceder, Accepter, Acclaimer, Accorder, Accruer, Accuser, Achiever, Acquirer, Adherer, Adjudger, Adjurer, Adjuster, Admirer, Adopter, Adorer, Adorner, Advertiser, Adviser, Advoyer, Affecter, Affirmer, Afflicter, Affrayer, Affreighter, Affrighter, Affronter, Aflicker, Agreer, Aider, Aimer, Airer, Aliner, Allayer, Alleger, Allower, Allurer, Altogether, Amasser. (additional references)

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Anagrams: ASSISTER

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-i-r-s-s-s-t"

-1 letter: asserts, resists, sassier, satires, siestas, sisters, tassies, trasses.

-2 letters: airest, arises, assert, assets, assist, asters, raises, resist, satire, serais, siesta, sister, sistra, sitars, stairs, stares, stases, stasis, strass, stress, striae, tasses, tassie, terais.

-3 letters: airts, arise, arses, arsis, asses, asset, aster, astir, easts, irate, raise, rases, rates, rests, retia, rises, rites, saris, sates.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-i-r-s-s-s-t"
 

+1 letter: assisters, asterisks, asterisms, brassiest, disasters, grassiest, satirises.

 

+2 letters: antistress, artinesses, assertions, chastisers, ostracises, patissiers, resistants, sacristies, satyriases, scenarists, serialists, sparsities, staircases, starfishes, straitness, sustainers, tessituras, trashiness, waitresses.

 

+3 letters: bastardises, casuistries, crassitudes, dispersants, dissertates, dissipaters, gastritises, iratenesses, masterships, parasitises, parasitoses, pasteurises, patisseries, peristalses, peristalsis, prefascists, resistances, samarskites, secularists, seminarists, separatisms, separatists, shipmasters, slipstreams, spessartine, spessartite, starchiness, strategists, streakiness, streamsides, stripteases, surrealists, swarthiness, sweatshirts, tardinesses, traitresses, trespassing, tyrosinases.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: ASSISTER


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

41 53 53 49 53 54 45 52

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-    ...    ...    ..    ...    -    .    .-.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01010011 01010011 01001001 01010011 01010100 01000101 01010010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#83 &#83 &#73 &#83 &#84 &#69 &#82

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0053 0053 0049 0053 0054 0045 0052

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3553534353543952

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Translations: Modern
4. Derivations
5. Rhymes
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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