Help vs. Facilitate — What's the Difference?

Make it easier or possible for (someone) to do something by offering them one's services or resources

To make easy or easier

Serve someone with (food or drink)

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

Cannot or could not avoid

To make easy or easier.

The action of helping someone to do something

To help bring about.

Used as an appeal for urgent assistance

To preside over (a meeting, a seminar).

To give assistance to (someone); make it easier for (someone) to do something; aid

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 give material or financial aid to

Make easier;

To wait on, as in a store or restaurant

Be of use;

To contribute to the effectiveness or improvement of (something); improve or advance

Physiology: increase the likelihood of (a response);

To ease the pain or discomfort of; relieve

To refrain from; avoid or resist. Used with can or cannot

To be of service; give assistance

To be of use or provide relief

The action of helping; assistance

One that helps

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

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

(uncountable) Action given to provide assistance; aid.

Something or someone which provides assistance with a task.

Documentation provided with computer software, etc. and accessed using the computer.

One or more people employed to help in the maintenance of a house or the operation of a farm or enterprise.

(uncountable) Correction of deficits, as by psychological counseling or medication or social support or remedial training.

(transitive) To provide assistance to (someone or something).

(transitive) To assist (a person) in getting something, especially food or drink at table; used with to.

(transitive) To contribute in some way to.

(intransitive) To provide assistance.

(transitive) To avoid; to prevent; to refrain from; to restrain (oneself). Usually used in nonassertive contexts with can.

A cry of distress or an urgent request for assistance

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."

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

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.

To change for the better; to remedy.

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

To forbear; to avoid.

To wait upon, as the guests at table, by carving and passing food.

To lend aid or assistance; to contribute strength or means; to avail or be of use; to assist.

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.

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

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

Specifically, a domestic servant, man or woman.

The activity of contributing to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose;

A resource;

A means of serving;

A person who contributes to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose;

Give help or assistance; be of service;

Be of use;

Improve the condition of;

Abstain from doing; always used with a negative;

Contribute to the furtherance of;

Improve; change for the better;

Help to some food; help with food or drink;

Take or use;