assist
IPA: ʌsˈɪst
noun
- A helpful action or an act of giving.
- (sports) The act of helping another player score points or goals
- (soccer) A decisive pass made to the goal scorer
- (baseball) A defensive play, allowing a teammate to record a putout.
verb
- To help.
- (sports) To make a pass that leads directly towards scoring.
- (medicine) To help compensate for what is missing with the help of a medical technique or therapy.
- (archaic) To stand (at a place) or to (an opinion).
- (now archaic) To be present (at an event, occasion etc.).
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Examples of "assist" in Sentences
- To have his goal scored on my assist is a great thing for us.
- A good way to assist is to bring entrepreneurial and business skills to them.
- But they had a big assist from the Hollywood moguls and the invention of new media techniques.
- The No. 1 plague on America's box scores is what I call assist inflation -- the awarding of assists that are not assists according to the very extensive language in the NCAA Statistician's Manual.
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