单词 | aided |
释义 | aidedadj. 1. a. Assisted, helped, supported. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > easiness > aid, help, or assistance > [adjective] > aided, helped, or assisted yholpea1240 aided1611 assisted1853 helped-out1905 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Aidé, aided, helped. 1737 A. Hill Tears of Muses 17 To slighted beauty wou'd new powers impart: And stretch the aided empire of the heart. 1816 T. Chalmers Let. in W. Hanna Mem. T. Chalmers (1851) II. 71 All that minuteness which the aided eye of man has been able to explore. 1878 Pop. Sci. Monthly June 176 It has for ages been the fashion to ignore or deride symptoms..that have no lesions or morbid appearances that the aided or unaided senses can discover. 1917 S. H. Adams Our Square & People in It 71 He had that rare knack of helping out without involving the aided one in the coils of obligation. 2004 J. Grippando Hear No Evil (2007) 254 Was this something you observed with the naked eye, or with aided vision? b. As the second element in compounds: assisted or helped by the thing specified.computer-, motor-, police, wind-aided: see first element. ΚΠ 1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. III. xxix. 193 Till..they may first enter the range of the microscope-aided eye. 1884 Engin. & Mining Jrnl. 29 Mar. 238/1 The help of steam-driven or steam-aided starting and reversing gear and powerful steam-brakes has necessarily been invoked. 1906 New Cent. Path 20 Aug. 17/2 Nature would compel sleep and rest, even if she had to bring on an acute illness to effect her purpose. But, drug-aided, against the warnings, men push on. 1962 New Scientist 27 Sept. 677/3 Once these feathers were a costly nuisance. Now, thanks to technology-aided cannibalism, they are the basis of an expanding industry. 1978 Jrnl. Soc. Archit. Historians 37 149/2 Chabannes supplied one of the first detailed descriptions of the large-scale use of heat-aided ventilation in his books of 1818. 2003 L. Hunt Kung Fu Cult Masters i. 38 When Ken Lo performs similar feats in Drunken Master 2, his kicks and balance are wire-aided. 2. spec. Receiving financial aid; esp. (of a school or other educational establishment) subsidized by monetary grants from the government. Cf. maintained adj. 2.rate-, state-aided: see first element. See also grant-aided adj. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > grants and allowances > [adjective] > maintained or retained by subsidies subsidiary1658 subsidial1698 aided1832 grant-aided1927 1832 I. Weld Statist. Surv. County Roscommon 612 Thus it appears, that the pay schools are in proportion to the aided schools, as 100 to 17.4. 1887 Testimony taken by U.S. Pacific Railway Comm. VI. 3614 Did not the building of those roads add materially to the receipts of the aided lines and thereby promote the interests of the Government in that respect? 1901 Church Building Q. July 123 The aided church should take up such a collection as it can each year until the amount granted is refunded. 1943 Educ. Bill, Explan. Memorandum (Cmd. 6492) 5 Aided schools: The managers of these schools will continue to appoint their own teachers and have the teachers' salaries and other maintenance charges paid by the local education authority. 1986 Church Times 16 May 6/1 The refusal of diocesan finance to achieve aided status resulted in there being under twenty aided schools. 2008 A. Panagariya India (2010) 449 Aided colleges and universities function virtually identically to their public counterparts. Compounds aided recall n. a method of market research in which a subject is given reminders or cues in order to evaluate how well the information contained in an advertisement, programme, etc., has been assimilated. ΚΠ 1935 National Marketing Rev. 1 91/1 The data was compiled by the aided recall..method. 1957 BBC Handbk. 104 A complete list of that day's programmes is printed on the Log or Interview Record Sheet, and this can be used as a reminder of what was to be heard or seen (a procedure known as aided-recall). 1974 G. C. Bernardi Fire Prevention Film Spots 13 Respondents were..told that these [fire prevention] spots were distributed by the CDF... Those who said they remembered one or both of these spots were counted as having aided recall. 2002 M. N. Clemente Marketing Gloss. 20 Aided recall involves showing a respondent an ad, then querying the respondent about what he or she recalls about its sales message, product offer, slogan, etc. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1611 |
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