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Difference Between Help and Facilitate

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Help

Make it easier or possible for (someone) to do something by offering them one's services or resources
The teenager helped out in the corner shop
She helped him find a buyer
They helped her with domestic chores

Facilitate

To make easy or easier
Political agreements that facilitated troop withdrawals.

Help

Serve someone with (food or drink)
May I help you to some more meat?
She helped herself to a biscuit

Facilitate

To lead (a discussion), as by asking questions, mediating between opposing viewpoints, or ensuring that all participants' views are heard.

Help

Cannot or could not avoid
He couldn't help laughing
I'm sorry to put you to any inconvenience, but it can't be helped
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Facilitate

To make easy or easier.

Help

The action of helping someone to do something
I asked for help from my neighbours

Facilitate

To help bring about.

Help

Used as an appeal for urgent assistance
Help! I'm drowning!

Facilitate

To preside over (a meeting, a seminar).
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Help

To give assistance to (someone); make it easier for (someone) to do something; aid
She helped me with my project. I helped her find her book.

Facilitate

To make easy or less difficult; to free from difficulty or impediment; to lessen the labor of; as, to facilitate the execution of a task.
To invite and facilitate that line of proceeding which the times call for.

Help

To give material or financial aid to
Help the homeless.

Facilitate

Make easier;
You could facilitate the process by sharing your knowledge

Help

To wait on, as in a store or restaurant
Please help the customer in aisle 20.

Facilitate

Be of use;
This will help to prevent accidents

Help

To contribute to the effectiveness or improvement of (something); improve or advance
Tax breaks to help create jobs.
New ways to help the environment.
A remark that didn't help the situation.

Facilitate

Physiology: increase the likelihood of (a response);
The stimulus facilitates a delayed impulse

Help

To ease the pain or discomfort of; relieve
Medication to help your cold.

Help

To refrain from; avoid or resist. Used with can or cannot
Couldn't help laughing.

Help

To be of service; give assistance
I made a cake, and my friend helped.

Help

To be of use or provide relief
He has a bad back, and physical therapy hasn't helped.

Help

The action of helping; assistance
Do you need help with that package?.

Help

One that helps
You've been a great help. A food processor is a help to the serious cook.

Help

(Archaic) A person employed to help, especially a farm worker or domestic servant.

Help

Such employees considered as a group. Often used with the.

Help

(uncountable) Action given to provide assistance; aid.
I need some help with my homework.

Help

Something or someone which provides assistance with a task.
He was a great help to me when I was moving house.
I've printed out a list of math helps.

Help

Documentation provided with computer software, etc. and accessed using the computer.
I can't find anything in the help about rotating an image.

Help

One or more people employed to help in the maintenance of a house or the operation of a farm or enterprise.
The help is coming round this morning to clean.
Most of the hired help is seasonal, for the harvest.

Help

(uncountable) Correction of deficits, as by psychological counseling or medication or social support or remedial training.
His suicide attempts were a cry for help.
He really needs help in handling customer complaints.
“He’s a real road-rager.” / “Yup, he really needs help, maybe anger management.”

Help

(transitive) To provide assistance to (someone or something).
He helped his grandfather cook breakfast.

Help

(transitive) To assist (a person) in getting something, especially food or drink at table; used with to.
It is polite to help your guests to food before serving yourself.
Help yourself to whatever's in the fridge.

Help

(transitive) To contribute in some way to.
The white paint on the walls helps make the room look brighter.
If you want to get a job, it helps to have some prior experience.

Help

(intransitive) To provide assistance.
She was struggling with the groceries, so I offered to help.
Please, help!

Help

(transitive) To avoid; to prevent; to refrain from; to restrain (oneself). Usually used in nonassertive contexts with can.
We couldn’t help noticing that you were late.
We couldn’t help but notice that you were late.
She’s trying not to smile, but she can’t help herself.
Can I help it if I'm so beautiful?
Can I help it that I fell in love with you?
Are they going to beat us?
Not if I can help it!
She never does more than she can help.

Help

A cry of distress or an urgent request for assistance

Help

To furnish with strength or means for the successful performance of any action or the attainment of any object; to aid; to assist; as, to help a man in his work; to help one to remember; - the following infinitive is commonly used without to; as, "Help me scale yon balcony."

Help

To furnish with the means of deliverance from trouble; as, to help one in distress; to help one out of prison.

Help

To furnish with relief, as in pain or disease; to be of avail against; - sometimes with of before a word designating the pain or disease, and sometimes having such a word for the direct object.
The true calamus helps coughs.

Help

To change for the better; to remedy.
Cease to lament for what thou canst not help.

Help

To prevent; to hinder; as, the evil approaches, and who can help it?

Help

To forbear; to avoid.
I can not help remarking the resemblance betwixt him and our author.

Help

To wait upon, as the guests at table, by carving and passing food.
The god of learning and of lightWould want a god himself to help him out.

Help

To lend aid or assistance; to contribute strength or means; to avail or be of use; to assist.
A generous present helps to persuade, as well as an agreeable person.

Help

Strength or means furnished toward promoting an object, or deliverance from difficulty or distress; aid; ^; also, the person or thing furnishing the aid; as, he gave me a help of fifty dollars.
Give us help from trouble, for vain is the help of man.
God is . . . a very present help in trouble.
Virtue is a friend and a help to nature.

Help

Remedy; relief; as, there is no help for it.

Help

A helper; one hired to help another; also, thew hole force of hired helpers in any business.

Help

Specifically, a domestic servant, man or woman.

Help

The activity of contributing to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose;
He gave me an assist with the housework
Could not walk without assistance
Rescue party went to their aid
Offered his help in unloading

Help

A resource;
Visual aids in teaching
Economic assistance to depressed areas

Help

A means of serving;
Of no avail
There's no help for it

Help

A person who contributes to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose;
My invaluable assistant
They hired additional help to finish the work

Help

Give help or assistance; be of service;
Everyone helped out during the earthquake
Can you help me carry this table?
She never helps around the house

Help

Be of use;
This will help to prevent accidents

Help

Improve the condition of;
These pills will help the patient

Help

Abstain from doing; always used with a negative;
I can't help myself--I have to smoke
She could not help watching the sad spectacle

Help

Contribute to the furtherance of;
This money will help the development of literacy in developing countries

Help

Improve; change for the better;
New slipcovers will help the old living room furniture

Help

Help to some food; help with food or drink;
I served him three times, and after that he helped himself

Help

Take or use;
She helped herself to some of the office supplies

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